Jumpstart your career!
Come to the Missouri School of Journalism and hone your database skills at IRE and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) while getting a graduate degree in journalism.
The decade-long collaboration between this top journalism school and IRE has resulted in dozens of journalists making the leap to the some of the best newsrooms in the country.
If you qualify for admission to the school and a graduate research job at IRE, your tuition will be waived and you will receive a monthly stipend while getting hands-on experience in NICAR's database library and obtaining a master's degree from this renowned school.
Graduate students working in the database library have gone on to CAR jobs at newsrooms across the country including The Washington Post, Dateline NBC, The Dallas Morning News, The Seattle Times, Detroit Free Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Kansas City Star, The Center for Public Integrity, The Miami Herald, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. In addition, two alumni currently are part of the CAR team at The New York Times.
For more information, contact Mark Horvit, executive director of IRE and NICAR, by sending an e-mail to .
Contact
IRE, Inc., or NICAR, Inc.
138 Neff Annex
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211
Office hours: 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. (central), Monday-Friday.
IRE main line: 573-882-2042
Database Library: 573-884-7711
Resource Center: 573-882-3364
IRE Store Orders: 573-882-3364
Membership: 573-882-2772
Subscriptions: 573-882-2772
Publications/Ads: 573-884-2360
IRE Fax: 573-882-5431
