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 "story ideas" ...
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The one-query story: Quick hits for your newsroom
Amaze your editors and wow your readers with these quick-hit data story ideas. Learn techniques on how to look for the short-form watchdog and how to juggle it all. Afflict the comfortable by fact-checking their statements, find expert sources and use spreadsheets to inform your next project.
Tags: spreadsheets; query; data; car
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Data State Of Mind
What is a data state of mind? Approaching story ideas with the mindset that you are going to quantify or measure something, rather than just getting the facts and all sides of the story. Learn more with this tip sheet.
Tags: data state of mind; facts; story; safety; bridge collapse
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Year in CAR
Horvit and Luther go over some of the best stories, from the past year, using computer-assisted reporting.
Tags: story ideas; CAR
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The Impact of Poverty, and How to Convince Your Editors its Worth Writing About
This Powerpoint presentation is a great guide to why you should cover poverty. Get your editor and your readers to care with Kelly's pitch ideas and story examples as well as steps to take to get started.
Tags: poverty; data; HMDA; Department of Health; LED
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Economic Development Subsidies: $70 Billion Worth of Stories
LeRoy's Powerpoint is a great resource for all things related to economic development claims. He includes the harm that job subsidies can cause and lots of story ideas.
Tags: job subsidies; TIFs; tax loophole
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From community colleges to universities: Investigating higher ed with the help of students
McBride's Powerpoint is chock full of great tips and story ideas on how you can cover your local higher education institution with the help of journalism students.
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Investigating Higher Education
Use this tipsheet from award winning reporter, Perez, when you need to cover the higher education beat. She gives great resources for where to look and story ideas for the data you receive.
Tags: higher education; property records; IRS; grants; student federal loans
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Welcome to the world of data: Now what do you do?
Herzog gives great tips on what to do with your data once you have it, including how to get to know your data, how to clean it, how to keep it simple and where to look for story ideas (IRE's Resource Center, of course!).
Tags: data; resources; cleaning data; pivot tables
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The numbers don’t lie * *If you read them really carefully
This is Campbell's Powerpoint presentation for the panel: Analyzing the past, present and future with U.S. Census data. He includes the pros and cons of using Census data as well as some tips for stories you can do using the Census.
Tags: census; data; story ideas
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Finding the Story
Berens outlines three stages of strategy to use when you want to make an enterprise project really pop.
Tags: story ideas; strategy; enterprise projects