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 trends" ...
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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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Recapturing History
Gebeloff uses a PowerPoint Presentation to show how to use IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata), a website maintained by the University of Minnesota, to find trends. IPUMS uses data collected by the census but analyzes them in ways the official census has not published. He shows, for example, a table showing where self-employed Chinese who work in Manhattan live. This was not published by the Census.
Tags: U.S. Census; CAR; PUMS; IPUMS; data analysis; social trends; population trends.
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New Trends in CAR: Social Networking Projects
Brant Houston, executive director of IRE/NICAR, writes about new trends in CAR, specifically mapping relationships between where criminals live.
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Sources for an investigation of industry trends in the sweatshop food factories of your state and region
This tipsheet lists sources for an investigation of industry trends, working conditions, housing and other social problems of immigrant, migrant and citizen workers in the sweatshop and food factories of your state and region. It also includes Rigert's series In the Meat Factories and Headden's Made in the U.S.A. The PDF portion of this handout is three pages long, while the stories make up for the additional 48 pages. The full tipsheet, stories included, can be ordered through the IRE Resource Center. Audio tape available through the IRE Resource Center at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org. Ask for tape #IRE96-52.
Tags: migrant workers; immigration; illegal immigrants; meat packing; sweat shops; labor; food; factories; working conditions; housing