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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Surveys: The bad, the ugly and the good (your own, that is)
This PowerPoint presentation covers the fine art of crafting an effective, accurate survey. The author offers some examples of poorly designed surveys, as well as tips and advice on creating a new survey. He includes sources where you can borrow questions, as well as tips for keeping the survey objective and fair.
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Finding Source Documents
This tipsheet lists good resources for finding documents. Specifically, it covers finding government documents, statistics, court rulings, polls, surveys and academic journals. Most of the resouces listed are online resources. Both national websites, and sites specific to Oklahoma are included.
Tags: internet; online; web; statistics; search engines; lexisnexis
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And the Survey Says...
Gebeloff polled newsrooms around the country to learn what they were doing with respect to building the most utilitarian of all intranets. Eleven survey responses coupled with Gebeloff's insightful analysis are a terrific and necessary guide to learning from others' mistakes and more importantly -- successes. If you're torn about which systems and servers to install, read this.
Tags: CAR; Intranet; computer systems; SQL; Oracle; Access; Text/DBF; Filemaker; ASP; ColdFusion; uniquery; servers