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 "victims" ...
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How to Snare the Interview
This tipsheet addresses how to get the difficult interviews for broadcast journalists. It gives pointers from "snaring in general" to approaches for specific interviews - the victim; government officials; whistleblowers; corporate types; schemers/scammers; prisoners; and children.
Tags: Interviewing; broadcast; television; radio;
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Accountability Reporting in Higher Education
Lombardi's tipsheet addresses covering campus crime. She talks about finding sources, a difficult process through the student judicial process. She suggests sources for campus crime data; public records laws by state; and points to a toolkit developed by the Center for Public Integrity for covering campus crime
Tags: higher education; campus security; rape; Victim Rights Law Center; victim advocates; Clery Act; Department of Education; assault
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Victims and the Investigative Narrative
This tipsheet discusses the challenges and consideration to make when reporting an investigative project through the story of a victim.
Tags: reporting; story structure; documentation;
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We don't want journalists that act like machines
Question and answers about speaking to victims of traumatic events. It examines not only about those who were part of the event but also the journalist that must cover it.
Tags: trauma; victims; interview; journalist; dramatic stories; event
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Project proposal
Pardue has laid out nine questions for reporters to use to prepare projects to pitch to their editors.
Tags: pitch; project; proposal; focus; summary; data; sources; time and money; budget; impact; victims; winners; readers; editors' track
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Getting started on the cops beat
Ploheski's tipsheet is a guide for new crime reporters who want to excel immediately. It contains advice for cultivating sources, establishing your presence, obtaining records, and being thorough. It also includes one of Plohetski's crime stories for the Austin-American Statesman.
Tags: crime; police; law enforcement; justice system; criminals; jail; prison; victims; murder; cops
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Walking the graveyards: caring about victims and the powerless so that we drive closer to the truth
This succinct tipsheet offers advice on conducting investigations of unsolved murders. Suggestions range from interview techniques to coping skills for the emotional weight that comes with immersion in murder stories to motivational techniques.
Tags: murder; justice; crime; victims; investigations; criminal justice system; killings; law enforcement; interviewing; immersion journalism
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Tragedies & Journalists
This is a guide published by the Dart Center to help journalists cover catastrophic events better, and to survive them in better shape. Chapters deal with such subjects as interviewing victims and rescue workers, being among the first responders to a terrorist act, and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Tags: Covering catastrophes; covering disasters; victims of fires; school shootings; covering war; battle fatigue; PTSD; 9/11; Oklahoma City bombing
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Sources on Crime Victims
This tipsheet is filled top to bottom with sources on crime victims, including journalism organizations and general crime statistics.
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Victim Impact and the Media
Flannigan talks about typical responses to trauma and how Media intervention affects grief. She also lists rights a victim should have when dealing with journalists and what reporters can do to be aware of victim issues.