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 "roads" ...
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Follow the Money: The Coming Boom in Toll Roads
Use this Powerpoint presentation to learn how to follow the toll road money. Overberg gives a brief history and explains how highway design, finance, construction and operation is changing.
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Tolling and project development
Guilmino's Powerpoint presentation gives you tips on how to follow the money in the toll road boom. Includes some great graphics as examples of what you can do with the data.
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Investigating Prison Abuse
Halloran's Powerpoint goes over how to gather facts, collect evidence and what to do when you encounter road blocks in your investigation into prisons and prison abuse.
Tags: Prison Abuse; inmates; collection evidence; broadcast
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Investigations in the Fast Lane: Some Rules for the Road
Be prepared and have a plan for when the breaking news happens. Forsyth gives great tips on what to do when the story breaks.
Tags: breaking news
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Investigative Breaking News
This tipsheet helps ready a reporter for breaking news stories. It beings with having the right training and tools at hand, and includes ideas for collaboration and engaging the team when the story breaks. Borowski also touches on what to consider when the dust settles - is there a bigger story here; something to develop down the road?
Tags: breaking news; databases; social media; reporting; management; sources
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Open Records - Legal Road Blocks and Resources
This tipsheet provides links to information illuminating the legal landscape of access to information under state and federal statutes.
Tags: private individuals; decendents; privacy rights; corporations; government employees
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Digging into Nonprofits: IRS Form 990
Campbell outlines the information that can be gathered from the IRS 990 form when investigating a nonprofit. Campbell gives a road map for the form, detailing what information can be obtained from specific lines of the form.
Tags: nonprofits; 990; 990-EZ; Guidestar; audits;
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Welcome to the long, long, long (really, really long), painfully long, long, long (did we mention long?) road to election day 2008
The authors discuss why it is important to begin election planning now. They discuss the front-loaded primaries and new campaign finance restrictions.
Tags: elections; politics; federal government; campaign finance; beat reporting
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Reporting on Federally-Funded Transportation Projects
This is a copy of David Barnes' speech about reporting on transportation projects. En espanol: #2871
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; fraud; roads; transit; airports; construction
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Reporting on Federally-Funded Highway and Transit Projects
This tipsheet provides assistance for reporters who are covering highway, transit and airport construction projects that involve the use of federal funds. Barnes provides an oversight of federal transportation funds, common contract fraud schemes, ways to find problems during construction projects and helpful Web sites, along with much more. En espanol: #2870
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; fraud; roads; airports; construction