Search and seize our abstracts

NICAR and IRE have expanded their websites with new searchable databases of investigative journalism resources, including the IRE Resource Center and Uplink abstracts, while also hosting pages for various journalism organizations and international journalist resources.

Services at NICAR and IRE's web site continue to expand with the addition of new ways to search through our on-line resources while we also work to upgrade the design of the site and the information we offer.

You can now search through the IRE Resource Center (which contains abstracts of thousands of investigative stories) using a free relational database manager called Postgres95. By typing a few key words, you can find citations of articles on organized crime, environment, medical malpractice or just about any subject.

Once you identify the articles you want, call IRE at (573) 882-3364 to order the full-text or video of the articles. Charges are an inexpensive 10 cents a page and video dubs are $10 per tape, plus postage and handling.

The address for the resource center is http://www.ire.org/resource/morgue.html

You also can now search abstracts of Uplink to find tips and resources on how to do computer-assisted reporting. Check it out at http://www.nicar.org/uplink/abstracts.html

You will soon be able to search our database library, too.

Meanwhile, we are helping other nonprofit journalism groups develop their pages at our site. Among them are the National Association for Black Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association, and the Education Writers Association.

We also are publishing pages on our recent Campaign Coverage workshop in Washington, D.C., and on the June IRE-NICAR national conference in Providence, R.I.

You might also view one of our sites for international journalists that contains resources for U.S. and Russian journalists reporting on Russia. That address is http://www.reporter.org/hillman/russian

The hillman in the address refers to one of our of more generous donors, Greg Hillman, who, with the Freedom Forum, has made this web site possible.

In the coming months, we will add pages on Mexican issues and resources as NICAR and IRE crank up the Mexico project, which is an effort to help Mexican journalists set up an organization similar to IRE.

If you have any suggestions, please contact our web master Wallace Winfrey at (573) 884-7321, or send e-mail to wally@nicar.org