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Tips
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 IRE Tip Sheets
- Tips from IRE members about how to cover a wide variety of investigative stories.
- Tips for Getting Started
- Tips for getting started from a NICAR boot camp graduate.
- 50 Ideas for CAR Stories
- Carol Napolitano, coordinator of Computer-Assisted Journalism at the Munster gives you 50 ideas for using CAR to cover your beat.
- Turning Data Into Prose
- Tips Jeff South, database editor at the Austin American-Statesman, tells you how to turn data into a story.
- Campaign Finance Tips
- Tips from many top journalists for covering campaign finance, including one on how to get the public's pulse using the Web, from CampaignFinance.org.
- 10 Quick Campaign Finance Stories
- Tips for 10 campaign finance stories you can do quickly.
- Tips on Transportation Stories
- Heather Newman of the Detroit Free Press gives you tips on using CAR in transportation stories.
- Tapping Internet Resources
- A guide for finding information on the Internet from Nora Paul of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
- Writing Tips
- Weekly writing tips from the Providence Journal since 1997. Check out a topic, such as beat reporting.
- Tips for Ethical Reporting
- Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and Professor Wendell Cochran of the School of Communication at American University, look at ethical considerations in Web reporting.
Stories
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NICAR's Recent CAR Stories
- Recent stories discussed on the IRE-L (Investigative Reporters and Editors) and NICAR-L (National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting) Website, thanks to NICAR.
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IRE's Story Database
- Search IRE's database of stories. You get a short summary and must pay for stories you want. Good for story ideas.
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Best of IRE Broadcast Stories
- Look at the best broadcast stories of IRE members since 1979. The site uses video streaming.
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Environmental Stories
- Search environmental stories using CAR from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
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TV Rundown of Stories
- A local at the investigative stories of TV reporters. The site includes some tips for broadcasters.
- CNN ValuJet Evaluation
- CNN used CAR to investigate the ValuJet crash.
- Back-to-School Shopping on the Web
- CNN story about how to use the Web to get ready for school.
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Louisville TV Station's Car Stories
- Wave 3 News investigates child sex offenders and school achievement scores.
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