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Recent IRE Press Releases
Knight Foundation extends matching grant for IRE Endowment Fund
IRE's endowment drive received a tremendous boost recently when the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation offered to extend its matching program through Sept. 30. The drive was scheduled to end Dec. 31. We greatly appreciate the support of everyone who has donated to date. What this deadline extension will allow us to do is complete several fundraising efforts that were under way when the deadline passed. So join us on this final effort to take advantage of the Knight Foundation matching program, and help ensure that IRE will be helping journalists for years to come.
A donor with longtime ties to IRE has given the organization more than $55,000 to promote high-quality freelance investigations. The donation was matched with $25,000 from the Challenge Fund for Journalism III, a program of the Knight, Ford, McCormick Tribune and Ethics and Excellence in Journalism foundations, to create an $80,000 endowed fund. Eligible journalists can download the form from the IRE Web site (www.ire.org/freelance) or request the form from IRE staff member John Green via telephone (573-882-2772) or email (jgreen@ire.org).
On behalf of the IRE Board of Directors, I am writing today with good news: The board offered the job of IRE executive director to Mark Horvit, projects editor of Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas, and he has accepted. As I'll explain, Mark's offer and acceptance are conditional, but if the process goes as we expect, he will be on the job in January.
The staff of Uplink, NICAR's computer-assisted reporting newsletter, hope readers will enjoy the latest issue -- online. The success of Uplink in PDF inspired us to make the leap to Web publication, making production process even more efficient.
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) announced today that UCG, a Rockville, Md., publisher of business newsletters, electronic magazines and directories, pledged $10,000 over a two-year period to support the upgrading and further development of IRE's Web site.
Nearly 950 journalists from 26 countries came to the IRE Annual Conference in Phoenix to attend dozens of panels and workshops and to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Arizona Project.
The IRE membership elected board members for six of the 13 seats on the board at the membership meeting at its annual conference in Phoenix on June 9.
The 2007 Pulitzer Prizes honored five IRE members for a variety of individual work, including local, national and investigative reporting, and non-fiction books. Three members also share the public service honors awarded to The Wall Street Journal.
Investigative reports that took readers and viewers to the fertile farm fields of California’s Central Valley, to the arid sands of the vast Saudi desert and to the dark, dank coal mines of West Virginia captured the top prizes in the 2006 IRE Awards.
Current IRE members will be eligible to win free training and a travel allowance by helping us promote our new membership drive. We'd like your help signing up new members. At $60 a year, IRE membership is journalism's best bargain. Each new member you refer will qualify you for a prize drawing; all members who recruit at least five new members will receive a free one-year membership renewal. (Posted Mar. 19, 2007)
Three major investigative reports that used social science research methods as key parts of their probes were named today as winners of the Philip Meyer Awards.
The Wall Street Journal won top honors for its story on the backdating of stock options. Gannett News Service was recognized for its analysis that rated hospitals on care for heart-attack patients, and a Philadelphia Inquirer investigation of a cheating scandal in New Jersey schools completed the winners list. (Posted Jan. 24, 2006)
The IRE Board of Directors has appointed Lea Thompson of NBC to complete the term of board member Deborah Sherman, who resigned last month because of medical and family reasons. (posted Nov. 2, 2006)
Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., the top international group of investigative journalists, strongly protests the jail sentences imposed on two San Francisco Chronicle reporters for refusing to reveal the source of secret grand jury testimony from the BALCO case. (posted Sept. 22, 2006)
More than 800 journalists from 15 countries attended IRE's 30th Annual Conference with more than 100 panels and workshops to choose from over four days. Among the conference highlights was a keynote address at the IRE Awards Luncheon by Bill Marimow, vice president of news for National Public Radio and a longtime IRE member, and a showcase panel on legal assaults on the investigative press that featured top lawyers and journalists. (posted June 20, 2006)
The IRE membership elected board members for seven of the 13 seats on the board at the membership meeting at its annual conference in Fort Worth on June 17. (posted June 20, 2006)
This is the last opportunity to take advantage of IRE's mentoring program at the 2007 IRE Conference in Fort Worth, June 15-18. The program matches those seeking one-on-one mentoring with an experienced journalist at the conference. More details and a link to sign up are available at www.ire.org/training/mentoring.html and more about the conference is at www.ire.org/training/dallasfortworth06.
The nation's premier association of investigative journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., expresses its adamant opposition to the FBI's attempt to obtain the files of the late newspaper columnist Jack Anderson. (April 20, 2005)
Register now to take advantage of the early bird discount on conference registration. See some of the highlights expected at this year's event. (April 20, 2005)
Four members of Investigative Reporters and Editors, one of them on IRE's board of directors, were among the winners of the 2006 Pulitzer Prizes. In addition, another IRE member was cited for his work on an award given to a newspaper and news service staff. (April 17, 2006)
Investigative stories about deceit in Cleveland's public school district and an environmental disaster in New Jersey won the top prizes in the 2005 IRE awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors announced today. Those were among 15 prizes awarded by IRE from the 563 entries received. See full list of awards.(posted March 28, 2006)
Seven seats on the 13-member IRE Board of Directors are up for election this year at the 2006 IRE Conference in Fort Worth. The election will take place June 17. Members unable to attend the conference will be allowed to participate via absentee balloting. Find out how to run for the board and how to request an absentee ballot.
The Coalition of Journalists for Open Government analyzed FOIA requests and denials in 2000 and 2004 and found the government's presumption has changed from openness to secrecy. This year's Sunshine Week will be March 12-18. (posted Feb. 20, 2006)
IRE Executive Director Brant Houston and Aron Pilhofer, database editor at The New York Times, and other leading journalists and experts on the tax-exempt community, will lead this workshop at Marshall University that will help journalists interested in covering philanthropy, the business of charities and the political side of nonprofits. The workshop won't cost journalists anything to attend - deadline for applications is March 1. E-mail morrisb@marshall.edu or call Burnis Morris at 304-638-3322 for additional information.
This year's conference will feature the first Philip Meyer Awards ceremony, honoring stellar work done in the past year using social research methods in journalism. A full slate of hands-on CAR classes are scheduled, as well as panels on using CAR on nearly every beat, presented by top journalists. We have scheduled one of our popular mini-boot camps again this year for CAR beginners. Be sure you register early to get your pick of hands-on classes before they fill up. The deadline to make hotel reservations at our discounted rate is Feb. 10, but the room block could fill up before that. (posted Jan. 25, 2006)
IRE and NICAR have gathered relevant data, stories, tipsheets and other resources to help reporters covering workplace safety and mines. This includes several recent investigations that were done after the Sago Mine accident that illustrate how reporters anywhere can look at mine safety. (posted Jan. 20, 2006)
Major investigative reports on the nation's methamphetamine epidemic, systemic failures in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the loss of Florida's wetlands are winners of the first Philip Meyer Awards.(posted Jan. 9, 2006)
Get data about disaster assistance, small business loans, workplace safety, storms and fires, bridges and dams. Read stories done after past events and get tipsheets from reporters who have covered similar stories. (posted Jan. 3, 2006)
IRE and NICAR offer useful data about business and transportation, as well as past stories and tipsheets to help journalists cover the effects of the strike. (posted Dec. 20, 2005)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist died Dec. 17 at 83. Anderson was among the journalists at IRE's inaugural meeting in 1975. (posted Dec. 18, 2005)
Following a dam failure that destroyed homes and threatened others after a dam failed in southern Missouri, you can check the status of dams in your community using federal dam data and other resources from IRE and NICAR. (posted Dec. 14, 2005)
IRE and ASNE have launched a special program for midlevel editors featuring top editors and trainers sharing tips and techniques for producing investigative and enterprise work. (posted Dec. 2, 2005)
Malcolm F. Mallette, a former managing editor of the Winston-Salem Journal, a director of the American Press Institute and the author of an influential handbook for foreign journalists, died at his home in Durham, N.C. He was 83. Mallette was a founder and helper of IRE. (posted Dec. 2, 2005)
Don't let your best work go unnoticed! Entry forms for the 2005 IRE Awards, honoring work published or aired in 2005, are now available online! The IRE Awards, among the most prestigious in journalism, recognize outstanding investigative reporting in print, broadcast and online categories. Postmark deadline is Jan. 9, 2006. (posted Oct. 2005)
IRE has established a fund to help IRE members affected by Hurricane Katrina to help with lodging, transportation, medical assistance, and other basic needs. In addition, you can help through donations to the Friends of the Times-Picayune Trust Fund. (posted Oct. 2005)
IRE members can qualify for discounts on geographic information system software by attending a GIS training event conducted by IRE and NICAR or ESRI. (posted Oct. 2005)
Jack White of WPRI/WNAC-Providence, R.I., was a Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy award-winning reporter who helped organize and was a member of the founding board of directors of IRE. "Jack White was a great reporter, a meticulous investigator and one helluva good guy," said Robert Greene, former president and chair of IRE and leader of IRE's famous Arizona Project. "He loaned his advice and name to IRE when we really needed it. We are forever in his debt." (posted Oct. 2005)
NICAR, the Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University and IRE are proud to introduce the Philip Meyer Journalism Award, a contest to recognize the best journalism done using social science research methods. Postmark deadline is Oct. 31. (posted Oct. 2005)
IRE congratulates its graduate student staff who recently were honored with awards from the Missouri Press Association. In addition to attending the Missouri School of Journalism and producing winning stories, graduate students Michelle Dammon Loyalka, Amy Rainey and Marina Walker have worked as editorial assistants and researchers at IRE and NICAR. See the full list of awards. (posted Oct. 2005)
Newsday's Bob Greene is offering advice and consultation to an international group of investigative journalists looking into the murder of Paul Klebnikov, a former Forbes Russia editor in chief. Greene led the Arizona Project, the 1970s investigation into the car bombing of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles. (posted Sept. 2005)
