Archive for June 2010
Stay up to date with the IRE Conference
Couldn’t make it to the IRE Conference or to that panel you wanted to see? Follow the latest news out of the conference on IRE’s Conference blog. IRE will be blogging panels from the conference and tweeting tips throughout the day. UNLV students Nicole Villoria and Gregan Wingert will blog events, as well as freelance…
Read MoreData shows little violence at U.S.-Mexican border
The Associated Press reported that the US-Mexico border is one of the safest parts of America, and getting safer even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence. The top four big cities in America with the lowest rates of violent crime are all in border states: San Diego, Phoenix, El…
Read MoreGreenspun, strong supporter of IRE’s Watchdog program, dies at 88
Barbara J. Greenspun, whose support has allowed IRE to train thousands of journalists throughout the country in investigative techniques, passed away on June 1. Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, is credited with helping to lay the foundation that led to the paper winning the Pulitzer Prize for public service last year. In 2005,…
Read MoreDoctor’s role in pharmaceutical study questioned
An investigation by John Fauber, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, found that when doctors sign off on research about powerful new drugs, they may be doing so based on data provided them by drug companies – not the raw data that underlies the studies themselves. Fauber looked at the case of Multaq, a drug for…
Read MoreFeds investigate possible billing fraud at Texas medical school, hospital
The Dallas Morning News’ Reese Dunklin and Miles Moffeit reported that a Dallas medical school and its teaching hospital are under federal investigation in possible Medicare and Medicaid fraud, billing for patient services that doctors didn’t provide. It is the second time in less than a week that allegations of billing fraud hit the two…
Read MoreSafety of rig had been a concern for months
Ian Urbina, of The New York Times, reports that internal documents from BP showed that “there were serious problems and safety concerns with the Deepwater Horizon rig far earlier than those the company described to Congress last week. The problems involved the well casing and the blowout preventer, which are considered critical pieces in the…
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