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 CAR Jazz Bash tickets on sale: Let your investigative spirit slip out for some night life at Houston’s famed Red Cat Jazz Café on Friday, Feb. 29. It’s an evening of great jazz and networking with some of the best reporters in the nation. In a narrow brick building dating back to Houston's earliest days, the Red Cat Jazz Café combines sophistication and good times with a French Quarter-like atmosphere and some of the best Cajun and Creole cuisine in town.
A $15 ticket gets you in -- and buys your first two drinks. And, if that's not enough, you’ll be helping IRE and NICAR raise money. Advance tickets for this event are now on sale for $15. Buy yours early so you don't miss this great event. Advance tickets will be available until Friday, February 15. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the conference for $20. Join us Friday, Feb. 29, at 8 p.m.; live music starts at 9.
New IRE Director named - A letter from IRE Board President: 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.
Join the $25 Club! Help IRE make the full Knight Foundation match by pledging $25 per year for four years ($100 total). All pledges that come in by Dec. 31 will qualify. Click here to read more on the $25 Club from IRE's Development Committee.
UCG gift supports IRE Web site: 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.
Breaking news resources: Bridge collapse: IRE offers data, including the National Bridge Inventory, Tipsheets, Uplink articles and more for reporting on the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis and investigating whether your local are vulnerable.
IRE Partners with GuideStar: IRE members will now be able to access information on more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations through GuideStar at a deeply discounted rate. Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) has announced that it will partner with GuideStar, the leading source of nonprofit information, to deliver special benefits to IRE members which include access to scores of facts and figures such as IRS Form 990s, executive compensation and much more at the fingertips of the journalism community. Click here for more information.
IRE in the IAPA Midyear Meeting: Towards an Inter American Investigative Journalism Institute (El Tiempo, Colombia, 17 de marzo del 2007) The Director of IRE, Brant Houston was a speaker at the recent Inter American Press Association Midyear Meeting in Colombia. Houston, Marta Soto (El Tiempo, Colombia), Angelina Nunes (ABRAJI, Brazil), Karla Sponar (Konrad Adenauer Foundation) and Gerardo Reyes (El Nuevo Herald, Miami, FL) highlighted the importance of investigative journalism and called for the creation of an Inter American Institute for Investigative Journalism that would provide tools and services to help develop and maintain high standards for the profession. Houston also showed what has been accomplished so far with IRE in the U.S. and mentioned the importance of continued support for investigative journalism in Latin America and the need for funding.
2006 Philip Meyer Award Winners: Reporters from The Wall Street Journal, Gannett News Service and The Philadelphia Inquirer were honored with 2006 Phillip Meyer Awards, which recognize the best journalistic use of social research methods. The awards will be presented March 9 at the Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference in Cleveland. The first-place winner will receive $500; second and third will receive $300 and $200.Stories are available to IRE members through the IRE and NICAR Resource Center - just contact us at 573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.
Training
calendar: IRE educates
journalists in the latest techniques of finding, understanding and
reporting on stories. Find out where you can attend our training.
JournalismTraining.org: IRE and the country's
leading journalism organizations, with funding from the John S.
and James L. Knight Foundation, have joined to help you find
training opportunities.
CAR Boot Camps: Attend a computer-assisted
reporting Boot Camp and learn to acquire electronic information,
use spreadsheets and databases to analyze it and translate it into
high-impact stories.
Learn how we can bring specialized
training to your news organization. Some sessions are regional
workshops that draw from several states or throughout a city, some
are seminars for a single newsroom.
Minority
Fellowships: IRE offers minority fellowships
to its annual and computer-assisted
reporting conferences and to its weeklong computer-assisted reporting
boot camps. These fellowships are meant to help minority journalists
who cannot get newsroom funding to attend IRE's renowned training
programs.
Breakthroughs:
A contribution to IRE's endowment ensures that our work continues
and grows. It is critical for journalism that IRE thrives in the
future. IRE's independent voice, its training, its resources, and
its network of journalists are needed more than ever. Find out how
to help.
IRE
celebrates 30 years: See the timeline of IRE's history and learn about many of the people who played important roles in making the organization what it is today.
Looking for a job? IRE's free Job-Wanted board is
available for members to anonymously post their qualifications,
describe the job they want and invite employers to contact them.
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Extra!
Extra! Your
guide to the latest investigative work
Submit your published investigative stories by sending an e-mail to extraextra@ire.org with links and a brief summary.
Breaking News
Resources: IRE and NICAR compile data, tipsheets,
past stories and more to help cover the latest news. Topics include
hurricanes, earthquakes, the war in Iraq, the shuttle explosion,
blackouts, consumer issues and much more.
Net
Tour: A strategy guide
with starting points to help with effective research on the Internet.
IRE Español:
As part of IRE's efforts to strengthen its support for Latin American journalists and journalists reporting on Latino communities in the U.S., we have launched a companion Web site in Spanish to provide relevant resources and training.
IRE's Resource Center
is a rich reserve of more than 22,000 print and broadcast stories
and more than 2,000 tipsheets to help you do the
best work of your career.
Past
Conferences: See what panels, hands-on classes, special
presentations and more have been offered.
Investigative
Reporter's Handbook :
An indispensable reference that includes examples of local investigative
reporting and features easy-to-find Internet address lists to help
students and professionals.
IRE's
Beat Book series offers practical tips and techniques
from top journalists. Books in the series: Numbers
in the Newsroom, Understanding
Crime Statistics, Covering
Aviation Safety, Home
Mortgage Lending, Unstacking
the Deck, Covering Pollution,
Mapping for Stories: A Computer-Assisted
Reporting Guide .
The
Database Library maintains government data about a wide
array of subjects and makes it available to journalists.
Social
Network Analysis: Explore
the uses of SNA for visualizing and diagramming relationships between
individuals and businesses and institutions.
Math
test for journalists: Test your skills with this
interactive test developed by Steve Doig, Arizona State University,
and inspired by Phil Meyer, UNC-Chapel Hill.
The
Campaign Finance Information Center Web site features
a tool for searching a database of federal contracts by contractor
or by country.
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