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Share your favorite IRE memories

IRE members past and present are invited to share your favorite memories of IRE & NICAR as we celebrate our 50th anniversary. We're looking for photos, testimonials, stories, TikTok dance numbers, data visualizations, fun facts and whatever other personal arcana you'd like to share from five decades of supporting investigative journalism.

Please send your contributions to 50@ire.org. Your submissions may be published on the IRE website. Make sure to include credits and alt text for photos and other media, and please let us know how long you've been a member!

Black and white photo of more than a dozen people posting for a photo. From left, clockwise: George Weisz, Dave Offer, Jack Wimer, Jack McFarren, John Winters, Dave Overton, Tom Renner, John Rawlinson, Diane Hayes, Steve Goldin, Alex Drehsler, Ross Becker, Dan Noyes, Mike Wendland, Dick Cady, Carol Jackson, Kay Nash, Ron Koziol, Susan Irby, Steve Wick, Myrta Pulliam.
Some members of The Arizona Project gather. From left, clockwise: George Weisz, Dave Offer, Jack Wimer, Jack McFarren, John Winters, Dave Overton, Tom Renner, John Rawlinson, Diane Hayes, Steve Goldin, Alex Drehsler, Ross Becker, Dan Noyes, Mike Wendland, Dick Cady, Carol Jackson, Kay Nash, Ron Koziol, Susan Irby, Steve Wick, Myrta Pulliam.
Photo of Janelle O'Dea's painted fingernails on display at the NICAR conference in Baltimore, featuring the words NICAR, Baltimore and a picture of a crab.
Janelle O'Dea's NICAR/Baltimore-inspired nails.
A photo of David Donald with a group of CPI alumni standing on a stairwell in a hotel. Everyone is gesturing to someone out of the frame. It kind of looks like everyone's trying to hail a taxi.
David Donald with a group of CPI alumni at NICAR 2014.
Two people sitting at the head table in a conference meeting room giving a presentation dressed as Jedis. One is holding a light saber.
Yasmin Garcia and Johan Villatoro, University of Texas at Austin, lead an R programming session at the NICAR 2025 conference in Minneapolis.
A photo of Samantha Sunne pointing to text on a projection screen.
Samantha Sunne leads her popular "Scraping without Programming" hands-on session at the 2017 IRE/NICAR Annual Conference on Thursday, June 22 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, Ariz.
Black and white photo of Arizona Project members.
Many of the Desert Rats gathered at IRE’s Annual Conference in 1997 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Arizona Project.
Conference attendees eating lunch in a large hotel ballroom.
Photos from the award luncheon at the 2019 IRE Conference on Saturday, June 15, 2019, in downtown Houston.
Black and white photo of David looking over student and computer.
David Herzog, IRE's Director of Data & Research Services and Academic Adviser to NICAR, works with a Bootcamp attendee in May 2003.
A packed room full of conference attendees.
Attendees crowd into a session at the NICAR 2014 conference.
Black and white photo of journalist at typewriter with a cigarette.
Bob Greene, Newsday journalist, led the Arizona Project. Greene was known for his dedication to hard work and appreciation for good spirits.
Black and white photo of a crowd of people in a hotel conference ballroom.
A crowd listens to a speaker at NICAR 2019 in Newport Beach, California.
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