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 "threats" ...
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Investigations on the Beat
Laikin identifies several databases specific to various beats. She stresses the need to know FOIL laws & appeals, plus potential threats.
Tags: FOI; Freedom of Information; beat reporting; databases; government; public agency
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Open Records: Dealing with the Newest Threat to Open Government
This PowerPoint presentation discusses the recent FOIA Reform, the Open Government Act. Smallman offers an overview of the reform and discusses how it will affect open records laws. The tipsheet offers an overview of each section of the new bill.
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Private Eyes Share their Tips
Dawson's tipsheet lists helpful sources as identified by a private investigator. The first pages is a list of books. The remainder of the tipsheet details how journalists and PIs alike have lost access to information, and other threats to the future of the public's right to know.
Tags: PI; private investigator; FOI; public records; book; investigation; web search; backgrounding
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Spanish translation of "Threats in provinces: covering the armed conflict"
Manrique explica las amenazs que recibio luego de reportar las actividades de grupos paramilitares en Colombia. En esta tipsheet la autora da consejos para aquellos que hacen periodismo de investigacion en pequenos pueblos y provincias.
Tags: periodismo internacional; colombia; amenazas; peligro; violencia; latinoamerica; Spanish; espanol; paramilitares
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Threats in provinces: covering the armed conflict
Manrique explains the threats she received afer reporting on the activities of paramilitary groups in Colombia. The author gives advice on how to report and do investitative journalism in provinces and smaller towns. Spanish version available (2941)
Tags: international reporting; colombia; threats; danger; dangerous assignments; violence; Latin America; latinoamerica; Spanish; espanol; paramilitary groups; 2941
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Investigating Political Corruption at the Highest Levels in Latin America
Disponible en Espanol: 2889. Santoro explains the threats he received and the invasions of privacy he endured after communicating with a judge about the investigation of Serbian drug-trafficking in Argentina. For Santoro, these threats were neither the first not the last, but he says they are mild when compared to the situations of journalists in Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. He explains the dangers these journalists face and points out that, because of weak institutions, this is a problem that is not likely to end anytime soon.
Tags: Latin American journalism; corruption; politics; international journalism; drug-trafficking; investigations
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Top 10 Legal Threats to Journalists and How to Fight Back
This tipsheet reviews the top ten legal threats to journalists, including libel, prior restraint and disclosure of confidential sources. For each threat, the tipsheet gives some recent examples.
Tags: legal issues; ethics; law; fabricated stories; anonymous sources
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20 Tips for using open records laws (tips 15-20)
Ken Ward Jr. provides tips on how to use open records laws. He talks about how often to file requests, and how to think in an "FOIA state of mind." He gives a link for all state public records laws, and tells you where you can look through frequently requested documents. He also talks bout threats to public access.
Tags: FOIA; agencies; Reporters' Committee; public access laws; newspaper library; state code; Society of Environmental Journalists; Society of Professional Journalists
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The Perils of HIPAA
This tipsheet gives guidelines in health communication and reporting. It gives tips on the HIPAA statute and the release of information on protected health records.
Tags: health reports; confidentiality of health records; health documents
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PR Counterattacks
Find out more about the legalities of investigative reporting. This tipsheet deals with the ways in which some subjects try and escape investigations by leaking the stories to other newspapers or by hiring law firms even before the publication of stories.
Tags: law; law and investigative reporting; PR firms; FOIA requests; law firms