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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Campaign finance the data science way
The Center for Investigative Reporting and IRE teamed up with the San Francisco data science company Kaggle to help bridge the gap in journalism between hacking, math and substantive expertise. They challenged data scientists to approach a database journalists have looked at a million times over: federal campaign contributions. We'll introduce you to the winner of the competition and discuss the tools the data scientists used and their results.
Tags: hacking; math; data; campaign contributions; campaign finance
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Investigating Higher Education--Powerpoint
Perez's Powerpoint presentation offers great examples of resources used and graphics on how to display your findings including personnel investigations, memos, SEC docs and more. Perez was part of the IRE award winning team for "On Shaky Ground".
Tags: higher education; school safety; EDGAR; PACER; Conflict of interest
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Finding danger in data, Powerpoint
Purcell's Powerpoint presentation offers insight on how he and his team used data to uncover the dangers within the Philadelphia school system.
Tags: data; Assault on Learning; school violence; crime
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Investigating Shadowy Organizations
Whether you're investigating the CIA or a sports team, use this tipsheet from award winning reporter, Apuzzo, to cover that shadowy organization.
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Census on a tight timeline
This PowerPoint lays out how Playford and his team put out a story using census data in a time crunch.
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Tracking guns:How to investigate gun dealers and track murder weapons
Grimaldi, 2010 IRE award winner, provides the PowerPoint he used at this year's conference. Get inside information on how he and his team tracked down guns and the gun dealers who sold them.
Tags: gun dealers; Washington Post; The Hidden Life of Guns;
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Reporting on Guns as a Consumer Product
This Powerpoint comes from IRE award winner, Cohn. It follows how he and his team investigated Remington guns, and what they found.
Tags: remington guns; gun reporting; a-political
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Building a Watchdog Culture
Learn how to make the best watchdog group out of your news team. From the beginning framework, to selling the pitch to your boss, Taylor provides great tips to get your newsroom where you want it.
Tags: watchdog; managers; newsrooms; news teams; investigative reporting
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Building the Collaborative Project
Get fresh tips on how to make the most of your newsroom team collaboration.
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Investigative Breaking News
This tipsheet helps ready a reporter for breaking news stories. It beings with having the right training and tools at hand, and includes ideas for collaboration and engaging the team when the story breaks. Borowski also touches on what to consider when the dust settles - is there a bigger story here; something to develop down the road?
Tags: breaking news; databases; social media; reporting; management; sources