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Photo courtesy of the Incident Information System. Editor’s Note: As the Yarnell Hill Fire continues to blaze, mourning begins for the lives of 19 firefighters lost in the battle. Reporters are beginning to dig into why this disaster happened. Nate Carlisle, justice editor at The Salt Lake Tribune, has covered wildfires since 2005 and completed…
Read MoreAndy Hall, of the Wisconsin CEnter for Investigative Journalism, addresses IRE members at the 2013 Awards Luncheon on June 22 in San Antonio. Photo by Travis Hartman The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin State Journal report that Gov. Scott Walker has decided to veto a budget measure that would have forced the nonprofit Wisconsin…
Read MoreBy Zachary Matson Each year local and state governments provide private companies with billions of dollars of tax credits, subsidies and other forms of incentives to mover or open new facilities in their communities. These deals are shrouded behind layers of quasi-public agencies, weak disclosure rules and secretive businesses, but rarely the economic benefits turn…
Read MoreBy Syed Tawseef Ali The web is not a desktop — it is an interweave of phones, tablets, TV’s, laptops and desktops of every shape and size. Accessibility of the content is an important factor. During a panel entiled “Demystifying mobile for investigations” at the recent IRE Conference in San Antonio, experts in web design…
Read MoreNieman Lab held its Monday Q&A with Denise Malan, the new Director of Data Services in a collaboration between IRE and the Investigative News Network. In that role, Malan will focus primarily on obtaining and analyzing data sets that can be used by INN members; the data will also ultimately be archived in IRE’s library. She talked…
Read MoreMarcela Turati delivers IRE’s keynote address as board members David Cay Johnston and Andrew Donahue look on. Photo by Travis Hartman. As Mexican journalists become war reporters in their own country, Mexican journalist Marcela Turati of Proceso makes a plea to the investigative reporting community. Regions of Mexico are zones of silence. Citizens die every…
Read MoreFor many of us in this organization we have two families – our personal one and our IRE family. Today I was heartbroken to hear that we’d lost Kelly Guckian from our IRE family. For those of you who didn’t get the pleasure to meet Kelly, she was kind and sincere. She also loved data,…
Read MoreGannett sent a stable of journalists to the IRE Conference last week in San Antonio and put many of them to work blogging about reporting tips, tools and ongoing issues in investigative reporting like the situation for journalists in Mexico. Gannett reporters posted writeups about sessions, links to helpful tools and and documents and data…
Read MoreIRE board member and Toronto Star investigative reporter Robert Cribb blogged for The Star throughout the 2013 IRE Conference, covering a wide range of topics from panels on international investigations and the state of journalism overseas to helpful mobile phone applications. You can check out his blogs at The Star’s “The World Daily” section: When…
Read MoreT.J. Quinn leads discussion on “Performance Enhancing Drugs” as Michael Fish looks on. Photo: Travis Hartman. T.J. Quinn, Michael Fish, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steven Fainaru of ESPN’s enterprise team led panels at the IRE Conference on investigating crucial sports issues such as concussions and performance-enhancing drugs. ESPN’s Front Row section has a writeup on the conference, including thoughts on…
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