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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Confrontations on Camera
The tipsheet explains the best ways to approach on-camera confrontations which are entirely appropriate but frequently bungled.
Tags: TV; camera; confrontations
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What You Need To Know To Get Quality Video For Your Project
In the world of broadcast journalism, a great investigative story is bolstered by great video. Learn tips and tricks about how to use your camera to your advantage in this tipsheet.
Tags: Camera; Video; B-Roll; Interviews; Shooting; Camera Basics; Shooting basics
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People, Paper, & Passion: How To Get The Impossible
Great investigations require great people, documents, and passion. Learn how to incorporate all three into your investigations with this tipsheet.
Tags: People; Power; Passion; Documents; Freedom of Information
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Broadcast: The Paper Chase
A guide for broadcasters on how to navigate through endless stacks of government documents and forms, in order to find the real story.
Tags: FOIA; Freedom of Information; Public Records; Government Documents;
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Mining Around the Data Globe
Learn to find international data easily and quickly with the help of this tipsheet.
Tags: International Data
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The Art of the Interview
Zurick gives his tips on this classic IRE tipsheet. Simple reminders that will make your next interview great.
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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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Data Visualization Examples and Tips
"You've done all of this great data work and it gets reduced to a single sentence. Now what? Learn how to visually show off your hard labor, whether in print, broadcast or on the Web." Thompson and Philips give great tips in this Powerpoint.
Tags: data; visualizing data; data on the web
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Broadcast: After breaking news, what's next? (PowerPoint)
Turn to these tips after a break news story and you'll have your viewers turning to your station day after day.
Tags: breaking news; broadcast
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Be Prepared, Before the Storm Hits (PowerPoint)
Start planning before the storm hits. Stock and Armendariz provide this useful PowerPoint on what to do before it's too late.