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 "storytelling" ...
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Mobile + DataViz: Friends or frenemies?
Look at how storytelling works on mobile devices in terms of design and building stories for "longevity."
Tags: Storytelling design; data visualization; mobile apps; news sites
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Bringing Excel to the web with Excel 2013 and SkyDrive
Learn some of Microsoft Excel 2013's new features and talk about how to improve your stories and how to engage viewers with your sites for free. Look at different examples of how Excel has been implemented in storytelling.
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Information design and crossing the digital divide
See examples on how to cater to your audience members' needs visually with images and storytelling.
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Using Online, Tablet and Mobile Platforms For Better Investigative Storytelling
Use this tipsheet to get fresh ideas on how to reach a wider audience with online, tablet and mobile platforms.
Tags: mobile apps; tablets; online platforms
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Tell Me A Story!
Storytelling and Data Journalism Slideshow by Anthony DeBarros of USA Today. https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AVWB96Jx-1c-ZGZqZGs0aDVfNjNocnFmNTRjcw
Tags: Data; Storytelling
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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;
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Investigating from Behind the Camera
This tipsheet provides "tips, tricks and best practices" for broadcast investigations - from division of labor to "characters" to storytelling tips.
Tags: broadcast; reporting; camerawork; cameraman; audio recording
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Introducing Tableau Public
This tipsheet gives an overview of Tableau Public - visualization software for interactive storytelling, but without the need for programming skills.
Tags: data visualization; mapping; software
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Databases in Disaster
Kucharski details how to report on natural disasters with the assistance of databases. He covered the June 2008 flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "Databases played an important role in our coverage as the community went from a state of shock to rebuilding. We used databases in three main ways: simple searchable databases providing basic community information, as a tool to assist our ongoing reporting and as a stand-alone storytelling tool."
Tags: natural disasters; disasters; flooding; databases; computer-assisted reporting; CAR; assessor
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Investigating Sports
Wilson lists popular sources and significant documents for reporters on the sports beat. He also suggests visiting www.reporter.org to use the "who is John Doe?" feature. The tipsheet includes reprints of some of Wilson's own sports investigations.
Tags: sports; beat reporting; sources; story-telling; backgrounding