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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Finding Data Online
There are plenty of clues on the Web that data exist, even though so much information is buried deep beyond search engine eyes. This session will highlight advanced searches and strategies for finding data that can't be found with a traditional search engine. We'll also point you to the best sites for tracking down local, national and international data. All you need is a browser and some curiosity.
Tags: data online
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FOIA Machine
Journalists can use the FOIA Machine to better prepare and manage their FOI requests. The system allows them to file requests and support or track other ones.
Tags: Website; FOIA; FOI requests; FOIA Machine
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Analysis Tools at FollowTheMoney.org
Roth Barber highlights the many great tools at FollowTheMoney.org in this tipsheet. There's everything from an independent spending database to "A unique view of the top 10,000 donors to political campaigns at both the state and federal level—information that exists nowhere else."
Tags: campaign spending; donors; tracking the money; L-CAT; contributors
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Tracking your impact
Hasler gives great tips on how you can track your impact to show your readers and funders what your reach is.
Tags: None
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Powerpoint from: The new money trail: Tracking spending in an earmark-free world
Fallis goes through his story on earmarks "Capital Assets" and what to look for now that earmarking is banned, because there are still ways lawmakers can get what they want.
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FOLLOW THE MONEY – Tracking Companies’ Influence on Politics
Allison and Nixon give you extensive tips and share lots of websites so that you can track what kind of influence a company has on this year's (or any) election.
Tags: campaign finance; elections; tracking; FEC
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How to track looted weatlh
Coronel shares how to track illicit money trails, internationally.
Tags: tracking money; corruption; international
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Creative Uses of Campaign Data
Stiles and Yourish offer unique and interesting ways of tracking who's paying and who's getting paid this election season and how to use that data to do great reporting.
Tags: campaign finance; campaign data; PowerPoint
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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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Tracking global crime and corruption at home and abroad
Candea's Powerpoint gives information on covering crime internationally.
Tags: international; crime