Susan Carroll Fellowship
On this episode, reporter A.C. Thompson discusses his investigation into the deaths of five Vietnamese-American journalists between 1981 and 1990. Officials seemed to think that an anti-Communist group called the Front had been behind the slayings, but law enforcement agencies never charged anyone and the cases went cold. Thompson reopened the investigation for ProPublica and…
Read MoreBy Sacha Pfeiffer, The Boston Globe ‘Spotlight’ on the IRE Radio Podcast Listen to Pfeiffer, Walter Robinson and Marty Baron discuss the Globe’s reporting in 2002 and 2003. Fourteen years ago, my Boston Globe Spotlight team colleagues and I published our first story about the Catholic Church’s widespread cover-up of clergy sex abuse. It was…
Read MoreNICAR received 14 submissions for its annual T-shirt contest, and voting is now open! Voting will stay open for about one week, ending Sunday, Feb. 7 at midnight. The proposal with the most votes will be sold as a T-shirt at the upcoming CAR Conference, March 10-13 in Denver. Runners-up will be sold as laptop…
Read MoreHow many people die in car accidents? Sometimes you’ll see the answer to that question flashing on a billboard on the highway. It’s also in the DOT’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database, a census of fatality accidents on public roads in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. You can use the data…
Read MoreJoin us for the first IRE Chicago Meetup of the year! We’ll be gathering at The M Lounge (1520 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL) on Thursday, Feb. 4 from 6-9 p.m. As with all of our Meetups, you don’t have to be an IRE member to attend. So bring a friend, colleague or anyone you…
Read MoreIRE is looking to you for input in planning sessions for the upcoming IRE Conference, June 16-19 in New Orleans. Please let us know what you’d like to learn – and who you’d like to hear from – at this year’s conference. You can submit panel topics and suggest speakers. The more we hear from…
Read MoreStart your 2016 CAR Conference a day early to take advantage of some special training opportunities from our partners. Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting will once again offer “Techraking <=16: Bootstrapping the News,” a popular workshop that helps attendees set up their computers to take advantage of all the tools they’ll be learning about…
Read MoreWhile planning your travel for NICAR16 in Denver, don’t forget about Sunday morning. In addition to a lineup of panels and hands-on classes, we’ll be offering the following special sessions: A three-hour interactive workshop with Quinn Norton. “Seeing like a network: Learning how to think about digital security” will cover what’s known as “threat modeling”…
Read MoreNICAR will once again be selling a T-shirt in celebration of data and the people who love and care for them, which will help raise money for future NICAR training events. NICAR is currently accepting ideas and designs for T-shirts. We will accept entries up through Sunday, Jan. 31. Send official entries to shirts@ire.org. Only submissions sent to…
Read MoreIRE is proud to announce the 2015 Philip Meyer Award winners A data-driven investigation that exposed the human cost of school resegregation in central Florida is the first-place winner of the 2015 Philip Meyer Journalism Award. Investigations that explored the growth of diversity in American cities and revealed the small cadre of attorneys who dominate the…
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