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Seven members of IRE’s Board of Directors were elected this past weekend at the annual conference in Las Vegas. The newly elected members of the 13-member board are: Sarah Cohen, of Duke University; Rob Cribb, of the Toronto Star; Andrew Donohue, of voiceofsandiego.org; Manny Garcia, of El Nuevo Herald/The Miami Herald; Aron Pilhofer of The…
Read MoreIRE members have access to a Web-based data exploration application to quickly and easily analyze demographic data while on deadline. ESRI is offering an online seminar on using this tool for economic development Thursday, June 17, 2-3 p.m. EDT. Register for “How Greater New Orleans is Stimulating the Economy with Geospatial Apps” here . ESRI…
Read MoreAn investigation by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund found “some of the nation’s largest and most elite universities stand to gain millions of dollars from selling the names and addresses of students and alumni to credit card companies while granting the companies special access to school events.” The schools earn bonuses when the credit cards…
Read More“New government and BP documents, interviews with experts and testimony by witnesses provide the clearest indication to date that a hodgepodge of oversight agencies granted exceptions to rules, allowed risks to accumulate and made a disaster more likely on the rig, particularly with a mix of different companies operating on the Deepwater whose interests were…
Read MoreFrom almost the time it opened, a Wisconsin gun store has been in trouble with federal authorities. After repeated warnings about problems, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revoked the store’s license in 2007. But as Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter John Diedrich reported, three years later the case is tied up in…
Read MoreMark Lagerkvist launches New Jersey Watchdog with an investigation of a state assemblyman who collected $570,000 in disability payments after retiring as a police officer with a bad back at age 31. Assemblyman David Rible, now 42, competes in five-mile runs, dances as a celebrity and hauls trash to the curb. In addition to his…
Read MoreCouldn’t make it to the IRE Conference or to that panel you wanted to see? Follow the latest news out of the conference on IRE’s Conference blog. IRE will be blogging panels from the conference and tweeting tips throughout the day. UNLV students Nicole Villoria and Gregan Wingert will blog events, as well as freelance…
Read MoreThe Associated Press reported that the US-Mexico border is one of the safest parts of America, and getting safer even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence. The top four big cities in America with the lowest rates of violent crime are all in border states: San Diego, Phoenix, El…
Read MoreBarbara J. Greenspun, whose support has allowed IRE to train thousands of journalists throughout the country in investigative techniques, passed away on June 1. Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, is credited with helping to lay the foundation that led to the paper winning the Pulitzer Prize for public service last year. In 2005,…
Read MoreAn investigation by John Fauber, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, found that when doctors sign off on research about powerful new drugs, they may be doing so based on data provided them by drug companies – not the raw data that underlies the studies themselves. Fauber looked at the case of Multaq, a drug for…
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