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The votes are in and the 2014 NICAR T-shirt has been selected! The winner is a black T-shirt with “DATA OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN”. The winning design comes from Jeremy Bowers of NPR. Bower’s design will be on sale at the 2014 CAR Conference in Baltimore and the IRE store. In addition, Jeremy will receive…
Read MoreENTER YOUR BEST INVESTIGATIVE WORK INTO THE 2013 IRE AWARDS. It’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…
Read MoreIRE will be hosting a Google Journalism Fellow again next year. This is a great program designed for college students who, as Google puts it, “are passionate about journalism and the role that technology can play in the industry and the pursuit of their craft.” The IRE-based fellow will focus on data journalism. The program comes…
Read MoreArson is far more common and dangerous than has been previously reported, a new project by Scripps Howard News Service has found.The yearlong investigation has identified more than 163,000 fires in America that experts agree have a significant chance of being undetected arsons. These fires caused at least 788 deaths, 13,009 injuries and at least…
Read MoreThe Asian American Journalists Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors are creating a unique opportunity for members of both organizations to take advantage of the training offered at three national events in 2014: IRE’s Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference in Baltimore in late February, IRE’s annual conference in San Francisco in June and the AAJA National…
Read MoreThe federal government is making it increasingly difficult, and prohibitively expensive, for journalists to get files that agencies want to keep secret, despite President Obama’s pledge of transparency, IRE President David Cay Johnston writes for Newsweek. That’s bad news for authors, editors, producers, writers, and publishers, as well as anyone else interested in democratic government.…
Read MoreEarlier this week, the Sunlight Foundation filed its very first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. In May 2013, they sent a FOIA request to the General Services Administration (GSA) requesting a copy of all contract notices that had been posted on FedBizOpps.gov since 2000. These notices would allow members of the press, researchers and our developers to…
Read MoreMixed martial arts, or simply MMA, is cage fighting that mixes punching, kicking and grappling. Likened to human cockfighting and blood sport by detractors, its intoxicating mix of athleticism, intensity and violence delivers something people have been lining up to see since Rome built the Colosseum. Still in its infancy, MMA already has entrenched itself…
Read MoreMany other college presidents across the country are negotiating huge exit packages when they step down, which critics say is emblematic of schools’ unrestrained spending on everything from administrative salaries to elaborate new buildings that drive up the cost of higher education. Lawrence S. Bacow, president emeritus of Tufts, received $1.7 million in 2011 for “end…
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