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Applications open for 2023 Total Newsroom Training
IRE’s grant-funded, customized training program, Total Newsroom Training, is returning for its 10th year and applications are now open.
Read MoreOpen call for 2022 IRE Award screeners
Want to get more involved with IRE but aren’t sure how? Consider volunteering your time as an IRE Awards screener. As a screener, you’d be part of a team of journalists looking for the best investigative reporting in a single category, which means that you may have to read, listen to, or watch a couple…
Read MoreCall for entries: 2022 Philip Meyer Award
It’s once again time to enter the Philip Meyer Journalism Award contest. Entries are now being accepted online, through Nov. 11. Established in 2005, the award was created to honor Philip Meyer’s pioneering efforts to utilize social science research methods to foster better journalism. The contest recognizes stories that incorporate survey research, probabilities, and other social…
Read MoreQ&A with IRE Journalist of Color fellow Sameea Kamal
The IRE Journalist of Color Investigative Reporting Fellowship is a year-long program intended to prepare and support a journalist of color for a solid career in investigative reporting. The program also provides an opportunity for the fellow’s news outlets to benefit from the fellow’s investigative skill-building. An underlying goal of the program is to increase…
Read MoreSee you in Nashville — register for NICAR23!
Registration is now open for NICAR23! Professional members can register at the early-bird rate of $299 until January 9.
Read MoreAnnouncing the Jeff German Fund for Investigative Journalism
CONTACT: IRE Executive Director Diana Fuentes, diana@ire.org, 573-882-1984 COLUMBIA, Mo. — Working with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Investigative Reporters & Editors has established the Jeff German Fund for Investigative Journalism to help continue the kind of game-changing investigations German devoted his life to producing. German, who joined the Review-Journal in 2010, was killed outside his…
Read MoreAnnouncing DBEI22 keynote speakers: Sisi Wei and Lam Thuy Vo
Investigative Reporters and Editors is pleased to announce that Sisi Wei and Lam Thuy Vo will deliver the keynote address at the 2022 DBEI Symposium, October 20 and 21.
Read MoreIRE condemns senseless killing of investigative journalist Jeff German
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Investigative Reporters & Editors condemns the senseless death of Las Vegas reporter Jeff German. The continuing police investigation indicates German may have been killed in connection with his investigative journalism, work that is the very foundation of our democracy. “Jeff’s death is a sobering reminder of the inherent risks of investigative journalism,”…
Read MoreLocations announced for 2022/23 IRE on Campus program
IRE will provide coast-to-coast training opportunities for college educators and students as part of the IRE on Campus program now entering its third year. Six colleges and universities that all serve a large percentage of historically excluded students, have been selected to receive free custom training — Saint Xavier University, San Francisco State University, Texas…
Read MoreIRE Executive Director Fuentes inducted into NAHJ Hall of Fame
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists inducted IRE Executive Director Diana Fuentes and three other journalists into the NAHJ Hall of Fame in a ceremony on Aug. 5, 2022, in Las Vegas.
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