The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "research information" ...
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Looking for Death Records
Lopez shows how to find death records and provides a sample letter to send to the freedom of information officer.
Tags: FOIA; death records; records; database; research
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Looking for People
Lopez offers advice for evaluating fee-based databases to gather information on people.
Tags: background; database; social security; identity; people; research
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Daniel Zwerdling\'s assorted reporting tips
Zwerdling offers advice on how to collect information for investigative reporting, with tips on background research to the finish product.
Tags: reporting; sources; interviewing; fact checking; reports
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Tips on Backgrounding People
Edds includes a list of resources to help reporters background their sources. She includes ways to find date of birth, telephone numbers, criminal records, driving history, financial information, education, and other miscellaneous facts.
Tags: backgrounding; deep web; professional license; criminal records; public records; online research
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Fast searching on the Internet
Garcia provides a number of helpful Web sites for reporters to use when doing online research. She gives specialized subject directories, specialty search engines, regular search engines and tells when to use each one. Garcia also gives tips on how to evaluate the information you find from your searches. Version en Espanol(2912)
Tags: Internet; investigative techniques; finding information online; Web tools; Spanish 2912
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Using Alexa: For Fast Researching on the Internet
Reddick describes the useful research capabilities of the Alexa Web utility function and explains how reporters can obtain the program for their own use. Among its many functions, the Alexa program can provide real-time site ownership, link listings of similar sites, give Web traffic rankings and give readers one-click access to Wayback Machine.
Tags: Alexa Web; investigative techniques; research methods; finding information online; Internet
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Empirical Research on Jury Selection
Rose provides findings from research on the representativeness of juries and information about jurors and privacy.
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Using data for profit and nonprofit businesses
Wethe provides several tips for starting business investigations, primarily focusing on on-line and public record resources that are available for most companies. He explains researching taxes, financial statements and records, contact information and court filings.
Tags: open records; public records; business; financial records; court filings; taxes; nonprofit; online resources
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Investigating the business of war
Maud Beelman provides a list of research resources for reporters who are investigating war and those involved with it.Disponible en espanol (2890)
Tags: War; U.S. Department of Defense; terrorism
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Latest in scraping from Denmark
Mulvad explains how DICAR goes about "scraping the web" for information. He explains how certain software can be very helpful for collecting data off the internet so that reporters can analyze it later, and gives examples of data DICAR collects and analyzes. Mulvad also discusses the legal ramifications of web scraping.
Tags: internet research; clipping service; invisible web; data analysis; computer-assisted reporting; Robosuite