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• Investigating Education: Story Topics to Turn Education Into a Watchdog Beat

  Ciotta lists topics and provides example questions to get a reporter started with an investigations as well as possible sources. Topics include: safety and security, school violence, zero tolerance, violence, test scores, regression, and fiscal stories.

  Tags: education; safety and security; school violence; zero tolerance; violence; test scores; regression; fiscal stories

  By Rose Ciotta

  2007

• Hitting the Mark on Homeland Security Stories

  Sean Holstege and his newsteam produced the first in-depth statewide look at Homeland Security spending. In this tipsheet, Holstege thoroughly explains the process, including 16 lessons he learned from the experience. He also attatched his FOI requests and some of the information he recieved. For those ordering a mail-order copy of the tipsheet, Holstege's related story on the subject is available. (story 21353)

  Tags: FOIA; CAR; Homeland Security; California; money

  By Sean Holstege

  2005

• Using CAR for Homeland Security on the Local Beat

  Nancy Amons takes reporters through the process of finding a story on local government spending of federal allocated grant money for Homeland Security. Amons did this story in Tennessee and found examples of misspending and not-spending in general.

  Tags: homeland security; CAR; beat; local; grant; SHSGP

  By Nancy Amons

  2005

• Covering Aviation Security

  Morrison's tipsheet focuses on finding the story in airport security. The tipsheet gives good insight into getting to know airport employees and developing good sources among the air marshalls. There are also hints about what types of documents and Web sites could be useful.

  Tags: Transportation Safety Administration; Federal Aviation Administration

  By Blake Morrison

  2004

• Military Aviation Safety Data

  Employing his experiences in the armed forces into CAR, Richard O’Reilly offers his insights on the analyses of safety data that is available from the Army, Navy and Air Force. Though most of these Access databases are not suitable for ‘quick-hit’ analyses on deadline, they can be well customized if a journalist can spare time to learn and perfect these, says O’Reilly.

  Tags: Army; navy; airforce; Navy Aviation Safety Database; Fighter Wing

  By Richard O'Reilly

  2004

• Tips for using the Naval Aviation Safety Database

  The Naval Aviation Safety Database can be useful, if you know your way around it. O'Reilly gives some tips on negotiating the pitfalls and other hazards present in the data to get the stories inside. Included in this tipsheet are suggested table joins, decoding nested codes, and analysis issues.

  Tags: data; CAR; computer-assisted reporting; Naval Aviation Safety Database; military; security; data analysis; databases; aviation; defense

  By Richard O'Reilly

  2003

• Aviation Safety and Homeland Security

  A list of contacts and net resources for both aviation safety and homeland security. The contacts include numbers and an explanation of what they do. The net resources each have a sentence or two of description.

  Tags: Aviation

  By Doug Pardue

  2002

• Aviation Security

  The tipsheet presents general guidelines for covering the secret world of air security. One of the most interesting tips is "Think like a terrorist"....

  Tags: terrorism; airport; security

  By Blake Morrison

  2002

• Aviation Safety Tip Sheet

  This tipsheet lists Internet resources for covering aviation safety.

  Tags: Aviation safety; airports

  By Alan Levin

  2002

• Covering a Plane Crash

  Great source of information when trying to cover a plane crash. Includes what to do when it's a small crash compared to a major crash. Also included is a list of sources around the country and on the internet. A story which is not available for download concerning the crash investigation of flight 427 is also provided.

  Tags: aviation; crash; FAA; Dept. of Transportation

  By Bill Adair

  2002