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 "social media" ...
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Git and Github: Learning to commit to version control
You need version control, and git is the answer. This class will introduce basic git commands and walk you through using the social coding site Github to store and organize your projects. It's ideal for anyone working on web development, scraping and scripting to gather or clean data. You should set up an account on Github before the class, and it's recommended, but not compulsory, that you be comfortable navigating the command line.
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Dig deeper with social tools
Learn how to find people, companies, experts and other sources and how to use geo-location features to cover breaking news. Use the tipsheet to discover new ways to use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and mobile apps to improve your stories.
Tags: Social media; Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn; mobile apps; sourcing; breaking news coverage
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Web tools for investigators
Learn what free online tools that will help you to enhance on your reporting and investigation. Get tips on social media searches, documents, Web scraping and visualizations.
Tags: Free tools; online tools; story visualization; reporting
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Information Mining and Social Media Links for Finding People
Williams provides over 50 websites for information mining -- a great place to start for story ideas.
Tags: mining; social media; people search
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Social Media Tools
"Learn new ways to find sources, background people and companies, and break stories before the competition" with this Powerpoint from Haddix.
Tags: social media; Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn;
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Social Media Sleuthing
Become a social media sleuth with Doug Haddix's informative tipsheet.
Tags: Social Media
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Broadcast: New media, new opportunities
Why not use free and easy tools that are available to you where ever your story takes you? Larson gives great examples of using new media to reach your audience.
Tags: social media; livestream qikvideo; skype; Facebook Vitrue
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Social Media Tools for Journalists
This tipsheet provides a listing of various, lesser-known social media websites. The author offers tips to using the provided sources in real time, as well as finding story ideas, monitoring sources and staying on the "cutting-edge" of the latest technology.
Tags: CAR; social media; Twitter; Facebook; Twellow; HootSuite; TrendsMap; Monitter; OneForty;
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Lightning Talks: NodeXL for Social Network Analysis
NodeXL is a free template for Excel 2007 and 2010 that makes Social Network Analysis easy for anyone familiar with basic spreadsheet functions. NodeXL has been optimized for analyzing online social media-it includes built-in connections to query the APIs of Twitter, Flickrand YouTube, allowing you to draw networks of users and their activity.
Tags: social network analysis; NodeXL; Excel; API; clustering
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Tweets telling stories; Tweets as data
Marcus explores how twitter can be used to aid in telling stories and collecting data thru the use of tools such as TwitInfo and TweeQL.
Tags: twitter; tweets; SQL; TwitInfo; TweeQL; data; storytelling; structured queries;