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Contact: Len Bruzzese, 573-882-2042

March 26, 1999

Schumann Foundation Awards $250,00 to IRE

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. has received a $250,000 grant to support and upgrade its extensive World Wide Web site and its resource center for journalists.

The Florence and John Schumann Foundation announced the grant this month. The grant is to be spent over a three-year period and will provide funds for staff and equipment for the programs.

IRE operates a Web site that offers training and educational materials for working journalists and journalism students throughout the world. The site at www.ire.org includes a directory of investigative journalists, tipsheets on different kinds of reporting, educational publications, training exercises, conference materials and an index to the resource center.

The resource center is a library containing more than 15,000 print and broadcast investigative stories and more than 1,000 tipsheets from the past 20 years. Journalists preparing to embark on investigative stories often do research through the resource center before beginning their work.

"This grant, coming on the verge of the millenium, will ensure that IRE will have the best Web site and resource center for serious journalists in the coming century," said Brant Houston, IRE's executive director. "We cannot thank the Schumann Foundation enough for its generosity."

IRE, based at the Missouri School of Journalism, has more than 3,800 members and holds conferences and on-site training around the world.

Based in New Jersey, The Schumann Foundation has provided support to organizations focusing on investigative reporting and the media, and the environment. In recent years, it has refined its interest in the quality of democracy by focusing more narrowly on the issue of money in politics. Its president is journalist Bill Moyers.