Toronto Star blogs at the 2013 IRE Conference

IRE board member and Toronto Star investigative reporter Robert Cribb blogged for The Star throughout the 2013 IRE Conference, covering a wide range of topics from panels on international investigations and the state of journalism overseas to helpful mobile phone applications. You can check out his blogs at The Star’s “The World Daily” section:

• When journalism is a “suicide mission”
  Practicing journalism in Mexico and much of the Arab world can be a “suicide mission,” a panel of reporters explained Friday with chilling accounts of murder, intimidation, surveillance and censorship. Read more …
• Watching the Watchdogs
  Recent revelations that U.S. Department of Justice officials surreptitiously monitored phone records of journalists at the Associated Press and Fox News in order to smoke out whistleblowers is triggering a chill deeply felt in the U.S. press corps. Read more …
• “They are killing journalists like flies” – Mexican writer issues call for action
  “We have become war reporters in our own country,” Mexican journalist Marcela Turati told a spellbound crowd of 1,200 American and foreign journalists gathered this past weekend at the Investigative Reporters and Editors annual convention in San Antonio, Texas. Read more …
• Make your smartphone really smart – app tips from the pros
  If you want to make your smart phone really smart, here are some of the best mobile apps suggested by two journalists at a panel at the Investigative Reporters and Editors convention in San Antonio, Texas – David Ho of the Wall Street Journal and Steve Stock of NBC in San Francisco. Read more …