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The Sun Sentinel won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service on Monday for its “well documented investigation of off-duty police officers who recklessly speed and endanger the lives of citizens, leading to disciplinary action and other steps to curtail a deadly hazard.” Investigative Reporter Sally Kestin and Database Editor John Maines wrote a piece…
Read MoreInsideClimate News became the third, and smallest, web-based organization to win a Pulitzer Prize, placing first on Monday in National Reporting for “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of.” Months ago, reporter Lisa Song brought a database of pipeline spills to and IRE/NICAR boot camp and began learning to work…
Read MoreLast week, The Association of Health Care Journalists, along with IRE and five other journalism and open-government groups, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture calling for the release of public information about the country’s food stamp program. From the AHCJ blog: Currently, the USDA refuses to reveal how much money individual retailers…
Read MoreMarcela Turati Make your plans now to join us in San Antonio for the 2013 Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference. Check out the list of panels and sessions — this isn’t everything, just a sampling of what you’ll be able to dig into when we gather from June 20-23. Keynote speaker Marcela Turati will detail…
Read MoreThis animation from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review came out of Carl Prine’s reporting on U.S. killings of Iraqi children. Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review won an IRE Award this week for his project “Rules of Engagement”, which traced the events of March 6, 2007, when U.S. soldiers shot three unarmed deaf Iraqi boys. Prine, a military veteran, got…
Read MoreStaff Sgt. Jessica Keown, with the 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss in El Paso Texas, served with a female engagement team, or FET, in Afghanistan. David Gilkey/NPR From the time NPR corresondent Quil Lawrence spent in Iraq before covering veterans issues, he could tell women in the military were doing more than…
Read MoreInvestigations that spanned borders and oceans are among the work honored in the 2012 Investigative Reporters & Editors Awards. An intrepid reporter from Pittsburgh followed a story to Iraq to expose the cover-up of a killing. A team of broadcast journalists withstood heated criticism from the U.S. State Department over their work in Benghazi, Libya.…
Read MoreWe are now accepting applications for candidates for the IRE Board of Directors. Below you’ll find an article written for the current IRE Journal by Board member Sarah Cohen explaining more about what it means to serve on IRE’s Board, and details on how to file. If you have questions, you can contact me at mark@ire.org.…
Read More“Company-backed reports are pointing out some potential flaws in earlier research. They also are generating questions of their own, in part because industry’s role in funding the work has not been clearly disclosed,” according to an investigation by the Gazette-Mail.
Read More“The Tribune reported in October that the state regularly pays employees not to work, even as it faces wide budget gaps and service cutbacks. The paper’s analysis found that, since 2007, more than 2,000 employees received their usual pay to stay home, amassing $23 million in state wages. More than five months after that report,…
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