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 "school athletics" ...
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Sports business: Investigating teams and companies that own them
Upton outlines information pertinent to covering sports - from professional teams down to high school athletics. She identifies key issues worth investigating for each category. She has also collected some miscellaneous resources that may be beneficial when covering sports.
Tags: sports; professional athletes; immigration; unions; NFL; NHL; NBA; agents; endorsements; college athletics; private school; public school; NCAA; Olympics;
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Sports Science and Medicine: Gettnig Beyond the Gee-Wiz Story
Epstein lists and describes some interesting sports investigations that any reporter could do, anywhere in the country. Examples include pre-participation screening of high school athletes and analyzing nutritional supplements.
Tags: sports; beat reporting; athletes; sources; high school athletes
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From the Grassroots Up: Investigating youth and high school sports
Farrey explains three trends that lend themselves to investigative sports reporting. The trends are: Jock factories, coaches background checks, and recreation funding. Farrey offers an in-depth look at each idea and includes suggestions for beginning those investigations.
Tags: sports; beat reporting; schools; athletic events; athletes; local government
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Basics of sports investigation
Wilson's tipsheet summarizes the investigative process of a Times story about athletes from unaccredited high schools and provides general tips based on lessons and practices from that investigation.
Tags: sports; investigative reporting; education; charter schools; college athletics; NCAA
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CAR for Covering Education
Ciotta's tipsheet is a good guide for education reporters who want to incorporate CAR into their beat. She suggests ways to analyze test scores and then recommends other sorts of data that education reporters pursue for more in-depth stories. Finally, Ciotta gives some examples of education stories that implemented CAR.
Tags: teachers; students; high school; school athletics; local government; state government; children
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The Longest Yard: Stories you can (or should) do
This comprehensive tipsheet contains a lot of information about incorporating CAR into sports stories. The tipsheet begins with a list of potential stories such as sports-related injuries, salaries and discrimination. For each of the nine potential stories, the authors write a whole paragraph about what to focus on, what information to use and where to get it. Next, the tipsheet includes a list of web and data resources that are helpful for sports reporters. Finally, the tipsheet lists some recent stories that used CAR and serve as good examples of how CAR was integrated into the sports beat.
Tags: sports. athletics; high school sports; college athletics; Olympics
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Sports Investigations
MaryJo Sylwester provides tips on how to make data collection an easier process. This tipsheet has ideas for high school and college sports stories. She also provides data sources regarding schools and athletes. The tipsheet also has links to recent sports stories using computer assisted reporting and/or investigative techniques.
Tags: database; high school sports; gender; athletic expenses; athletic revenues; coaches; teams; expense accounts; student fees; National Federation of State High School Associations; Office of Post-Secondary Education; Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act; NCAA
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Cash for Classes
Shulyakovskaya discusses a major issue in community college funding in California and perhaps elsewhere. Community colleges were obtaining taxpayer funding for college classes that were actually high school athletic practices. She goes over the many ways to get educational data online. Shulyakovskaya also talks about how to get the instruction needed to understand higher education funding. This is a good tipsheet to look over before diving into higher education stories.
Tags: community college; college; athletic practice; athletics; sports; education; education funding; public spending
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Investigating High School Academic Fraud, 2002 IRE Tip Sheet for Sports Investigations
Useful tips in researching educational background of athletes and to determine if scores to meet NCAA's eligibility were obtained at accredited schools. Also included are tips to the documents, institutions and Web sites that you'll find useful to research when writing a sports story.
Tags: NCAA; college; high school; education; NAIA; NJCAA; academic fraud
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A Whole New Game
Hoholik gives some tips on reporting on high school athletic associations as nonprofit organizations. The handout includes useful web addresses.
Tags: tax-exempt status; tournaments; spreadsheets; 990 form; Ohio