Don’t miss at IRE 2013: How to investigate on your beat

No matter your beat, there’s a session at the 2013 IRE Conference that can help you investigate it. The conference has sessions on how to launch investigations while working on any beat, such as every day data and building sources on the beat, as well as several panels with investigation ideas for specific beats. Check out a sample of what beats the conference can help you with:

Business

• Business investigations (Sponsored by Bloomberg)
• Cracking corporate corruption at Wal-Mart (Sponsored by Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism)
• In the name of charity: Investigating nonprofits
• The global financial trail: Following the money (Sponsored by Bloomberg)

Crime and courts

• Policing the police: Investigating law enforcement
• Juking the stats? Delve into your police department’s FBI crime data to find flaws
• Prosecutorial misconduct

Education

• Why does college cost so much and where does the money go?
• Enterprise on the education beat

Environment and agriculture

• Environmental investigations
• The dark side of the oil & gas boom: Death, pollution, land grabs and other impact
• AgriBusiness investigations
• The environment: Regulating the regulators

Health

• Investigating health care with data
• Bad medicine: Healthcare investigations (Sponsored by The Amarillo Independent)

Military

• Soldiers stories: Military investigations

Politics

• Investigating political shenanigans
• Watchdogging government officials

Religion

• In God’s name: Investigating religion (Sponsored by Religion Newswriters Association)

Sports

• Performance enhancing drugs
• Hard-hitting investigations: Concussions and sports