www.ire.org Search IRE  Member sign-in History How we started, Bylaws, The Arizona Project, Endowment Membership Benefits, How to Join, Find an Investigative Journalist, Listservs, Update Your Address Training Conferences, Seminars, Fellowships, Training Materials Resource Center 20,000-plus investigative stories, 2,000 Tipsheets, Reporting Guides, Beat Sources Broadcast Center Videostreamed clips, IRE feeds, IRE videos Database Library Government database collection, Data analysis Campaign Finance Information Center Campaign Finance Database, Stories FOI Center Columns, Awards, FOIA Database, Tipsheets The IRE Store Books, Audio tapes, Databases, Periodicals, IRE Logo Goods Job Center Hot jobs in journalism, latest fellowships and grants IRE Awards Latest contest, Past winners, How to enter Educators IRE Journalism Educators' Center IRE Board Elected members, Committees IRE Staff Staff members, Contacting us Privacy Policy

Membership in IRE puts you in the company of the world's best reporters and editors.

Membership includes:

• A subscription to The IRE Journal. The bimonthly magazine is packed with features about recent print, online and broadcast investigations, stories on journalism techniques and issues, reviews of books and Web sites, updates on training opportunities and news on fellow members. International members view the Journal electronically, or pay an additional $20 per year for mailing.
  
  
• Quick Hits is a biweekly electronic newsletter containing information about IRE programs, reporting tips and updates on members' activities in between issues of The IRE Journal. to subscribe.


• Waived access fee to the IRE Resource Center and its 23,250 archived investigative stories.
  
  
• Online access to more than 3,000 reporter tipsheets produced by leading journalists from around the world.
  
  
• Waived access fee to purchase databases from the IRE and NICAR Database Library.
  
  
• $20 discount on a subscription to Uplink, NICAR's bimonthly newsletter about computer-assisted reporting written by top reporters around the country about how they used CAR to develop some of their investigative stories.. Uplink contains information on changes in government data-access policies, and the recent transition of government agencies to providing data online, rather than in print format.
  
  
• Free Job Seekers board where members can anonymously post their qualifications, describe the job they want and invite employers to contact them.
  
  
• Member-only conferences, seminars, workshops and boot camps designed to fit your training needs.
  
  
• Optional listing on the Web site's International Directory of Investigative Journalists.
  
  
• Discounts on tapes and books, such as The Reporter's Handbook, Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide and the IRE beat book series.
  
  
• Access to all the members-only areas of the IRE Web site.
  
  
• Connections to a network of more than 5,000 journalists dedicated to investigative reporting.
  
  
• Ability to enter the annual IRE Awards, the nation's top investigative journalism contest.
  
  
• IRE members-only discounts on the latest geographic information system software from ESRI
  
  
• IRE members-only discounts on GuideStar Premium, providing full access to data on more than 1.5 million U.S. nonprofits.