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Winning T-shirt selected for NICAR 2017
The votes are in and the 2017 NICAR T-shirt has been selected! Joe Fox of the Los Angeles Times won our annual contest with a redaction-inspired design. You’ll be able to buy his design at the 2017 CAR Conference in Jacksonville. Any extra shirts will be available for purchase online in the IRE Store. Madi Alexander of…
Read MoreSpotlight Fellowship to award $100,000 for reporting, research project
By 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. Fifteen 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 More2017 Tapestry Data Storytelling Conference is Now Accepting Requests for Invitation
The 5th annual Tapestry Data Storytelling Conference will be held at Casa Monica in St. Augustine, Florida on Wednesday March 12th, 2017.Tapestry is an event designed to advance interactive online data storytelling, bringing together different viewpoints with the goal of generating a rich conversation about data storytelling. This one-day, invitation-only conference includes keynotes from speakers like Pro Publica’s Lena Groeger,…
Read MoreIRE members named finalists for Goldsmith Prize
The Shorenstein Center has named nine IRE members from five news organizations as finalists for the 2017 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and one IRE member as the winner of this year’s academic Goldsmith Book Prize. The winners of the 2017 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting will be announced on March 2, 2017, at the…
Read MoreVote now for the 2017 NICAR T-shirt
NICAR received some great designs for its annual T-shirt contest, and voting is now open! Voting will stay open for about one week, ending Sunday, Feb. 5 at midnight. The proposal with the most votes will be sold as a T-shirt at the upcoming CAR Conference, March 2-5 in Jacksonville. Runners-up will be sold as laptop…
Read MoreSeeking ideas for NICAR 2017 Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks are back for the 2017 CAR Conference in Jacksonvile. Pitch your ideas at lightningtalks.ire.org by Feb. 12. What are lightning talks? 5 minute talks on any subject. Anyone who is attending NICAR 2017 can pitch and the attendees vote on the talks they want to see. The 10 talks with the most votes will be presented during NICAR.…
Read MoreIRE seeks training director
Come train with us! IRE seeks a training director to help journalists bolster their watchdog and data skills. The trainer will help organize and conduct watchdog workshops and customized newsroom training; help plan national conferences; and develop innovative instructional materials in investigative and data journalism. While IRE is located at the University of Missouri, the trainer…
Read MoreTell us which hands-on classes you don’t want to miss at NICAR17
We hope you’re joining us in Jacksonville, March 2-5, for the 2017 CAR Conference. We want to hear which hands-on classes you’re most excited to attend. Consider taking our survey to help us plan repeat sessions. We’ll keep the survey open through Sunday, Jan. 29. At that time, we’ll tally the votes to help us plan repeats…
Read More2016 Philip Meyer Award Winners Announced
IRE is proud to announce the 2016 Philip Meyer Award winners A sophisticated data investigation that revealed doctors who had sexually abused their patients is the first-place winner of the 2016 Philip Meyer Journalism Awards. Other top winners include an innovative project tracking the spread of wildfires in the West and a data-driven investigation that exposed…
Read MoreSend in your entries for the 2017 NICAR T-shirt contest
Earn bragging rights and help raise money for future NICAR training events by participating in our annual NICAR T-shirt contest. All ideas celebrating data and data journalism are welcome, from a simple, classic design with NICAR on it to bad SQL puns (SELECT * FROM tshirts WHERE tshirts.thisone = “Awesome”). There are only a few…
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