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Open data benefits many, but cost breakdown unclear
Editor’s Note: This article first ran on July 20, 2017 on the Investigative Reporting Workshop’s website. By Clairissa Baker and Yang Sun, Investigative Reporting Workshop A new citywide data policy in Washington, D.C., shows there is no simple way for cities to clearly budget open data initiatives. Meanwhile, as the city works this summer to…
Read MoreIRE Radio Podcast | Crisis in Coal Country
Federal regulators counted 99 cases of advanced black lung over a five-year period in the U.S. So why is it that hundreds of miners with the most serious stage of the disease are walking into clinics across Appalachia? That’s the question NPR’s Howard Berkes set out to answer last year. Howard ultimately found that the…
Read MoreIRE seeks training director
The deadline to apply for the IRE training job has been extended to Aug. 8. System upgrades at the University of Missouri, where IRE is based, took down the HR application portal for five days. The system is expected to open again on Tuesday, August 1. Here’s our original post with information about the training director position:…
Read MoreThree journalists win IRE freelance fellowships
Projects investigating the U.S. war on terror, immigration and American business practices in Mexico have been awarded IRE Freelance Fellowships this year. The winners of the 2017 competition are: Anna Cavell, first place, is a freelance journalist based in the United Kingdom whose work has appeared on the BBC and Al Jazeera English. Her documentary…
Read MoreMeetup: Journalism Mega Mixer with SPJ, IRE, ONA, AAJA, NABJ, CCNMA and NAHJ
Please join The Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Online News Association, Asian American Journalists Association, National Association of Black Journalists – L.A. and CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California /National Association of Hispanic Journalists to mix, mingle, mega schmooze, socialize, have fun and network. WHEN: Tuesday, July…
Read MoreThe art of access: Strategies for acquiring public records in an increasingly anti-media world
By Ashley Sutherland, Arizona State University Delays. Excessive redactions. Fees. These are just some of the issues journalists and other citizens face when requesting public records from the government. David Cuillier, director of the University of Arizona School of Journalism, and Miranda Spivack, a professor of journalism at DePauw University, offered tips and strategies on how…
Read MoreStorify: Nikole Hannah-Jones delivers the IRE17 keynote
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Read MoreNICAR converts White House salary data
By Charles Minshew, Director of Data Services Today, the White House released the salaries of Executive Office staff members as a PDF. The NICAR Data Library has converted this file to a CSV for download, publication and sharing. You can access the file in our Github repository. The database includes salaries for 377 Executive Office…
Read MoreTips for digging into special education
Mining data and digging for documents can be powerful tools for finding families who may not be getting the best special education services. David DesRoches of WNPR in Connecticut, Brian Rosenthal of The New York Times and Heather Vogell of ProPublica shared this tip and more during their IRE Conference panel, “Investigating special education.” “Remember…
Read MoreInspiration to make your storytelling hum
“But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.” To Ken Armstrong, a writer at The Marshall Project, these 12 words from Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” demonstrate the epitome of good storytelling. “A great lyric can tell you a story in just a few words,” Armstrong told conference IRE Conference attendees.…
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