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Juliet Fletcher of the Press of Atlantic City (N.J.) reports that the number of reported stimulus-funded jobs have dropped in the state of New Jersey since they have stopped using estimates and are only reporting “jobs based on the actual employee hours paid for with recovery funds during each quarter.“
Read MoreBy Doug Haddix, IRE training director Every trainer will tell you that one of the joys of the job is learning from people you’re training. During recent custom training for The Associated Press in San Francisco, the group was talking about ways to avoid high copying fees for paper documents. After I suggested using a…
Read MoreBy Reyna Gobel and Margaret Engel Here’s a reminder to those attending this year’s IRE convention — don’t forget to sign up to be a mentor or a mentee. We did and lives changed as a result. Three years ago, we were matched by IRE and had breakfast in Phoenix during the annual conference. The…
Read MoreAccording to counter-terrorism officials, the “CIA received secret permission to attack a wider range of targets, including suspected militants whose names are not known, as part of a dramatic expansion of its campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan’s border region,” reports David S. Cloud of the Los Angeles Times. A vast majority of the over…
Read MoreBy Aron Pilhofer, The New York Times Our first go-around with lightning talks was so successful at NICAR that we’re bringing them to Vegas. The app is up, so go to it: http://ire.aronpilhofer.com What are lightning talks? For those unfamiliar, lightning talks are 5-minute presentations suggested by you, chosen by you, delivered by you. The…
Read MoreDuring the past three years, Maricopa County has paid more than $1.2 million to two private companies that shuttle county employees from parking lots to their office buildings in luxury buses, according to a three-month investigation by KNXV-Phoenix. Four 80-passenger tour buses run their routes every 15 minutes for 8 hours a day. “A review…
Read MoreAn investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed widespread problems in Georgia’s foster care system. “The newspaper reviewed more than 1,500 reports of state inspections and investigations, which provide an astonishing narrative of stark conditions and inadequate oversight in small foster homes and large group facilities alike. ” In one case, an 17-year-old with a history…
Read MoreAn investigation by Peter Aldhous and Jim Giles of NewScientist found that some of the experts used by Pfizer to lead educational forums have been “disciplined for deficiencies in patient care, while others have been reprimanded for how they conducted drug research trials.“
Read MoreJames Dao and Dan Frosch, of The New York Times, report on Warrior Transition Units that were created in the wake of the Walter Reed scandal. Meant as safe havens for soldiers as they recuperated from injuries and transitioned back into active duty or civilian life, the units “are far from being restful sanctuaries. For many…
Read MoreT. Christian Miller of ProPublica discusses “Disposable Army,” his series about contractors in Iraq. The stories won the 2010 Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting. Miller explains how the data analysis — coupled with 200 interviews — gave him the goods to break new ground in coverage of civilian contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.…
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