The early bird deadline for 
The 2025 Freelance Fellowship Recipients
Please note: This program is currently full. Please fill out this form if you’d like to be added to the waiting list. We’ll contact you if a spot becomes available. It’s time to sign up for mentoring at the CAR Conference in Atlanta, where IRE will offer in-depth coaching on data-driven investigative reporting techniques, news…
Read MoreJoin us for the first-ever IRE Seattle Meetup! We’ll be joining with AAJA and SPJ and gathering at The Diller Room (1224 First Ave. in Seattle) on Wednesday, Jan. 21 from 5-8 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…
Read MoreThe most recent reports on alleged campus crime, arrests, discipline and hate crimes reported for 2013 are now available in the NICAR data library. Buy it here. What’s in it? The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is a federal law that requires colleges and universities to disclose certain timely and annual information about campus crime and security…
Read MoreDocumentCloud is pleased to announce that Anthony DeBarros is joining our team as Director of Product Development. DeBarros joins DocumentCloud from Gannett Digital, where he was Director of Interactive Applications, leading a team that built data-driven interactives for investigations, elections and the Gannett platform as well as publishing tools for the company’s journalists. Before joining Gannett Digital, he…
Read MoreIt’s time to consider entering your best work into the IRE Awards. Among the most prestigious in journalism, the IRE Awards recognize outstanding investigative reporting across all media. Eligible entries must have been published or aired between January 1 and December 31, 2014. The deadline for submissions is January 9, 2015. How to enter the…
Read MoreAlex Richards is joining IRE as a member of our training team. Richards comes to IRE from the Chicago Tribune, where he had been a reporter specializing in investigative data journalism. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in 2011 and was awarded the Goldsmith and the Scripps Howard Farfel investigative reporting awards, among others,…
Read MoreIn celebration of the coming holidays, the IRE and NICAR offices will close Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 23 through Friday, Jan. 2 . While staff will be checking in periodically, coverage will be sporadic. We appreciate your patience and will see you in the new year.
Read MoreCongratulations to the several IRE members who recently were recognized with 2015 duPont-Columbia Awards. Their hard work and dedication to good investigative journalism helps keep the public informed and educated on important topics that affect their daily lives and communities. Wendy Halloran, Mark Phillips, Bryan West and Mark Casey, along with colleagues at KPNX 12…
Read MoreAn interactive map shows how the volume of flared gas in Texas counties has increased over time – especially in the Eagle Ford Shale. By John Tedesco, San Antonio Express-News The energy boom that’s showering rural South Texas with money is also wasting an irreplaceable natural resource. Drive through the bustling oil patch of the…
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again – time to consider entering your best work into the IRE Awards. Among the most prestigious in journalism, the IRE Awards recognize outstanding investigative reporting across all media. Eligible entries must have been published or aired between January 1 and December 31, 2014. The deadline for submissions is January…
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