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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My favorite sites for digging up the dirt and getting things done
Dowdell details sites that aid in organization; backgrounding of people and businesses; finding historical content; and discovering who/what is behind a web site.
Tags: RSS feeds; Google docs; file sharing; backgrounding; domaintools.com; cache; Wayback Machine; MINERVA; business license; professional license; twitter search; sex offender registry
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Education: From cheaters to teachersr
The reporters created an extensive list of documents and sources that can be used to cover the education beat. They also include advice as you approach your coverage of this beat.
Tags: Incident reports; court records; transcripts; Department of Education's discipline database; sex offender registry; attorney general; public records; misconduct; administrative hearings; personnel files
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Tracking sex offenders: How to find the ones who have dropped off the radar screen
This tipsheet is a good guide to finding missing sex offenders in your state. The author suggests using your state's internet registry and joining it to the Department of Corrections inmate database in Access to see which inmates were recently released but are unaccounted for.
Tags: sex offenders; Megan's Law; prison; crime; Microsoft Access
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Mapping Registered Sex Offenders
This tipsheet covers the basics of how to do a mapping story about registered sex offenders. It includes sections on getting started, potential stories, warnings and how to utilize your news organization's website.
Tags: criminals; FBI data; sex offender registry; FOIA; ArcView
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Internet for everyone: The best indexes, the best sites and where to find the best data
Williams put together this no-nonsense tipsheet listing websites that would be helpful in covering a variety of stories. News sources, search engines, campaign finance disclosures and sex offender registries are just a smattering of what is listed on this tipsheet.
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