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By Nakylah Carter, IRE & NICAR This edition of “Show Your Work” compiles five essential data journalism resources from Ben Welsh’s website, palewire. Welsh, a longtime IRE member, frequently speaks at IRE and NICAR conferences. His website offers transparent guidance for others to build their data journalism skills, while also providing tips and tricks for…
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Read MoreIRE’s Koch Continuum Grant supports investigative journalists pursuing public health and disability reporting. Here are the 2025 recipients.
Read MoreThe IRE Board of Directors elected officers for 2025-26.
Read MoreIRE members elected six journalists to the Board of Directors, and two journalists to the Contest Committee in the 2025 election.
Read MoreIRE has awarded the Don Bolles Medal for 2025 to Rocío Gallegos, editorial director and co-founder of La Verdad, an investigative news outlet she helped form in 2018 to fight the censorship and control of information that the Mexican government exerted over local news organizations.
Read MoreElon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) earned the 2025 Golden Padlock Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Read MoreBy Audrey Carleton, Bruce Gil, Emily Nadal and Zachary Smith The four of us met in a classroom in midtown Manhattan in the fall of 2021 — donning masks during the throes of the pandemic. Then final-semester graduate students at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, we…
Read MoreBy Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University, and Brant Houston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Continued expansion in the nonprofit sector, a diversifying investigative workforce, and growing pessimism about the future of journalism are among the main takeaways from a broad national survey of IRE members conducted in 2023. Our survey of membership — made possible through the…
Read MoreInvestigative Reporters and Editors has named its finalists for the 2025 Golden Padlock Award, recognizing the most secretive public agency or official in the U.S. This year’s competition highlights a competitive field of government agencies and public officials who have distinguished themselves in the art of secrecy.
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