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This workshop for journalists working for ethnic news organizations covers how to do investigative and enterprise journalism quickly and effectively. The program was created in 2007 by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., (IRE) with funding by the McCormick Tribune Foundation and in collaboration with New America Media.

The workshop is intended to help journalists learn to craft penetrating stories from their investigative and public service efforts. At the workshops, some of the best practitioners in the business explain and show how to find documents, databases and sources for topics such as education, immigration, homeland security, criminal justice, labor, and local government.

IRE will post links on the workshop Web page to showcase stories produced by workshop attendees who put these lessons into practice. We hope the Web site will inspire journalists in other newsrooms to do these kinds of public service stories. Visit this page in the future for the latest updates

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. IRE was formed in 1975 to create a forum in which journalists throughout the world could help each other by sharing story ideas, news gathering techniques and news sources. IRE provides journalism training and a community of support to foster excellence in investigative journalism, which is essential to a free society.

All Ethnic Media Watchdog Workshop participants receive a complimentary one-year IRE membership.