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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Health Analyses for Any Newsroom
Journalists have a duty to report on the hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and clinics that provide medical treatment to their viewers, readers, and listeners. Learn tricks of the health reporting trade in this tip sheet.
Tags: Health
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One big-ass(arse) database – and other medical issues
"Health databases can unlock important clues about matters of life and death in your community. From identifying unsafe hospitals to detecting questionable treatments used by doctors and their escalating costs, you can write important stories that have an immediate impact and lead to lasting change."
Tags: health care; databases
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The Bupe Fix
Schulte discusses a recent Baltimore Sun investigation into the drug buprenorphine, which is often recommended to treat narcotics addicts. Schulte lists sources that were helpful to the reporters during the investigation, such as the DEA's ARCOS system and the National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment.
Tags: drugs; addiction; prescription; substance abuse; internet resources; sources
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Investigating Off-Label Prescriptions
In this tipsheet, Young explains what "off-label prescribing" is as well as ways drugs are used off label. Included are sources that evaluate effectiveness of these drugs as well as tips for identifying off-label therapies that might be risky to patients.
Tags: pharmaceuticals; health care; drugs; prescriptions; off label; off-label prescribing; treatment; medicine; investigative reporting; public health; public safety
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Prisons, Parole, and Sentencing
Crowder provides tips on how to look at incarceration rates, recidivism, aftercare, drug testing, and sentencing laws. She provides specific questions to ask when looking at these topics. The tipsheet has a list of resources for state-by-state data and comparisons.
Tags: incarceration rate; prison; parole violation; parole officer; drug test; halfway houses; aftercare; forensics experts; drug treatment centers; habitual offender laws; robbers; murder; Sentencing Commission; Criminal Justice Institute; U.S. Department of Justice
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Justice off Trac (Outpacing PACER)
Beat reporters covering state, federal or municipal courts often spot or feel trends on the fly. One way to start documenting discrepancies that often exist is to use TRACFED, which maintains federal prosecution, sentencing and other data online and offers a subscription query service. This tipsheet is basically a guide to using the service and applying it in useful ways.
Tags: federal courts
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Failures in the Justice System
Schaver offers a list of pointers for reporters covering the court beat. From mastering the ins and outs of your own system to learning a thing or two about systems in other jurisdictions, this tipsheet covers it all.
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Public Access and Privacy
This detailed tipsheet, presented at the 2001 Global Journalism Conference, touches on several topics related public access and privacy. Smallman briefly explains U.S. FOIA law, then gives extensive treatment to Safe Harbor Overview. "The safe harbor -- approved by the EU this year -- is an important way for U.S. companies to avoid experiencing interruptions in their business dealings with the EU or facing prosecution by European authorities under European privacy laws," which are more strict than those in the U.S. Organizations that can certify that they practice "adequate" enforcement of privacy law as defined by the directive.
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Money That's What I Want
Credit market discrimination -- particularly mortgage credit discrimination -- has become a hot topic. Wienk discusses limitations of housing credit discrimination research and then suggests two relatively underexplored areas: studying housing search behavior and auditing lenders to assess their treatment of prospective borrowers before the stage at which written applications are written. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org
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Tipsheet No: 153
"Defensive Editing" is a two-page checklist of questions for reporters and editors to ask themselves before publication. The first page is a general checklist, with hints such as "Carefully check quotes against notes or tape. The second page focuses on legal aspects of publication, stressing the importance of assessing whether the reporter or editor had previous biases, is under treatment for alcohol or other problems, etc.
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