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:
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Resources for Following the 2012 Campaign
Masket provides over a dozens websites for you to use when covering all things campaign related; from advertising to political scientists' commentary.
Tags: election coverage; 2012 campaign
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Resources for covering elections
Dowdell, Horvit and Luther compile some of the best resources for following the money, the candidates and much more.
Tags: election coverage
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Welcome to the world of data: Now what do you do? (T. Thompson Powerpoint)
Thompson gives her tips and examples on what to do after you get the data. She includes what to use Access for, what to use Excel for, what to use Google Maps for and much more.
Tags: data sets; large data; data resources, ideas
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Welcome to the Glamorous World of Data
Kauffman gives good simple tips on why you need to be data-literate more so than ever before. He includes great examples of what you can do with your data and some great resources for data journalists.
Tags: data; data resources
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Economic Development Subsidies: $70 Billion Worth of Stories
LeRoy's Powerpoint is a great resource for all things related to economic development claims. He includes the harm that job subsidies can cause and lots of story ideas.
Tags: job subsidies; TIFs; tax loophole
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Investigating Higher Education
Use this tipsheet from award winning reporter, Perez, when you need to cover the higher education beat. She gives great resources for where to look and story ideas for the data you receive.
Tags: higher education; property records; IRS; grants; student federal loans
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Investigating Higher Education--Powerpoint
Perez's Powerpoint presentation offers great examples of resources used and graphics on how to display your findings including personnel investigations, memos, SEC docs and more. Perez was part of the IRE award winning team for "On Shaky Ground".
Tags: higher education; school safety; EDGAR; PACER; Conflict of interest
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Welcome to the world of data: Now what do you do?
Herzog gives great tips on what to do with your data once you have it, including how to get to know your data, how to clean it, how to keep it simple and where to look for story ideas (IRE's Resource Center, of course!).
Tags: data; resources; cleaning data; pivot tables
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Public Pensions Experts and Resources
Harris provides a list of public pension experts and a list of websites for expert pension help.
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Forming and Operating a Tax-Exempt Journalism Organization
Hermes extensively lays out what it means to be a tax-exempt journalism organization and the history behind it and provides legal resources for anyone interested in starting their own nonprofit center.
Tags: nonprofits; tax-exempt; 990; 501(c)(3)