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 violence" ...
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Finding danger in data, Powerpoint
Purcell's Powerpoint presentation offers insight on how he and his team used data to uncover the dangers within the Philadelphia school system.
Tags: data; Assault on Learning; school violence; crime
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From Database to Story - A Step-by-step Guide
Harbord and McKie show how you can utilize OSHA data to tell the story of workplace safety in non-traditional industries such as healthcare, schools (e.g., violence) and business (carpal tunnel syndrome). Their tipsheet walks you through the process of analyzing the data. And how to compare this information to other data sets to obtain a more complete sense of "the story."
Tags: data; database; OSHA; query; NAICS; excel; pivot tables; inspections; NICAR; National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting
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Using Data and Documents to Investigate Schools
This tipsheet lists and explains 27 sources of data and documents that will help turn an education beat into a watchdog beat. The tipsheet includes sources for charter schools' information, school violence, test scores, administrative contracts, and safety issues.
Tags: schools; education; school board; state government; local government; sources; beat reporting
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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
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In case of emergency: 10 breaking news scenarios and web sites that go with them
Watson provides links that can help in reporting on accidents, wrecks, crashes, fires, spills and school/workplace violence.
Tags: crime; safety; transportation
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"Children and Violence"
This special edition of Nieman reports focuses on the ways the media report on children and violence in the wake of highly publicized school shootings. Schools, police, courtrooms and juvenile detention centers all factor into the series, compiled of articles from editors and writers with firsthand experience in covering violent acts of children and, more often, the acts of violence committed against them. The media's role in shaping public perception of juvenile violence - a thorny issue touching on race and deep-rooted social concerns - is also examined.
Tags: guns; Jonesboro; Arkansas; Pearl; Mississippi; Paducah; Kentucky; Edinboro; Pennsylvania; Springfield; Oregon
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Tipsheet No: 634
This handout looks at using CAR to cover crime. The handout includes information on how to use Uniform Crime Report data from the FBI, where to go for state Uniform Crime Reporting programs, and how to track violence in schools. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.- ask for tape #35.
Tags: Using CAR for cover crime; Tracking violence in schools