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By Jill Riepenhoff, IRE Contest Committee Chair To eliminate any appearance of favoritism, the IRE Board of Directors has voted to bar board members from participating in the IRE Awards if they played a major role in the investigation. Beginning with work published or aired in 2019, board members may not enter the IRE awards if…
Read MoreThe votes are in and the 2019 NICAR T-shirt has been selected! Casey Miller won our annual contest. You’ll be able to buy her design at the 2019 CAR Conference in Newport Beach. Any extra shirts will be available for purchase online in the IRE Store. Thanks to everyone who entered designs and voted.
Read MoreAn investigation that found hundreds of unaccounted for deaths from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is the first-place winner of the 2018 Philip Meyer Journalism Awards. The other top awards go to an investigation that used scientific testing to uncover environmental hazards in Philadelphia’s public schools and an analysis that revealed philanthropists were getting tax…
Read MoreNICAR received some great designs for its annual T-shirt contest, and voting is now open! Voting will stay open for about one week, ending Sunday, Feb. 10 at midnight (PST). The proposal with the most votes will be sold as a T-shirt at the upcoming CAR Conference, March 7-10 in Newport Beach. The designer of the winning…
Read MoreAward-winning TV journalist Patti DiVincenzo and investigative data journalist Francisco Vara-Orta will join IRE as trainers. Their hirings mark an IRE milestone — the first time the organization has employed four full-time trainers. DiVincenzo and Vara-Orta join Cody Winchester as trainers, with all reporting to IRE Senior Training Director Denise Malan. The team also includes…
Read MoreThanks to the generosity of many donors, IRE is fortunate to have funding available to provide fellowships and scholarships to its annual CAR Conference (#NICAR19). This month, IRE awarded eight fellowships and scholarships for the 2019 CAR Conference in Newport Beach. Julia Rentsch from the Loveland Reporter-Herald (Berthoud, Colorado) received the Jennifer Leonard Scholarship. Established by…
Read MoreSubmissions are now open for Lightning Talks to be featured at #NICAR19 in Newport Beach. Lightning Talks, which take place on the Friday afternoon of the conference, are five-minute talks about a particular tool, skill or piece of advice learned from working on stories. The goal is to teach some practical tips in a fun…
Read MoreOn this bonus episode, we’re reaching into our archives for audio from the 2018 IRE Conference. During a panel about managing stress, reporters Ken Armstrong, Mike Hixenbaugh and Lulu Ramadan recounted difficult experiences and talked about how they balance their jobs and personal lives.
Read MoreEarn bragging rights and help raise money for future NICAR training events by participating in our annual NICAR T-shirt contest. We will accept entries up through Sunday, Feb. 3. Send official entries as JPG or PNG files to shirts@ire.org. Only submissions sent to that email will be entered in the contest.
Read MoreThe 2019 Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference will offer a record number of hands-on computer labs, Master Class workshops to hone your reporting and management skills, and a new track designed to help you understand key data journalism concepts. We’ll also be celebrating a milestone — the 25th CAR Conference — with several special sessions. The early-bird…
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