The early bird deadline for 
The 2025 Freelance Fellowship Recipients
IRE’s annual investigative reporting conference will be taking place June 14-17, 2018 in Orlando — and we want your input! Use this form to share ideas, suggestions and other comments you think will help us plan the best possible conference. The only required field is your contact information (in case we want to follow up).…
Read MoreThanks to the generosity of many, IRE is fortunate to have funding available to provide fellowships to its training events. These fellowships provide financial assistance to attend IRE boot camps. This month, IRE awarded six fellowships for the January 2018 CAR Boot Camp. Jenni Monet, a freelance journalist from Tucson, Arizona, and Kristen Taketa, from…
Read MoreA slow-moving housing crisis has been tearing apart communities in the city of Detroit. Homeowners have been replaced by renters. Mortgage and tax foreclosures have allowed landlords to scoop up potential rental properties on the cheap. On this episode, Detroit News reporter Christine MacDonald walks us through her data-driven investigation into evictions. Christine explains how…
Read More** Update as of 2/9: The mentorship program at the 2018 CAR Conference is currently full, but you may apply for the waiting list using this form. You will be notified before the event if we were able to match you. ** Pick the brains of the industry’s best journalists during the mentorship program at the 2018…
Read MoreWe hope you’re joining us in Chicago, March 8-11 for the 2018 CAR Conference. We want to hear which hands-on classes you’re most excited to attend. Consider taking our survey to help us plan repeat sessions. We’ll keep the survey open through Tuesday, December 12. At that time, we’ll tally the votes to help us plan repeats of…
Read MoreThe 2017 IRE Awards are now open for entries! We know there’s been a lot of great investigative work done during the year and can’t wait to see what you enter! You’ll notice some changes to the size specifications of the print/online and broadcast/video categories. In order to better reflect the ways in which our…
Read MoreThe Society of Professional Journalists advises that reporters should only use undercover methods when absolutely necessary to get information that’s vital to the public. But even if a reporter follows those guidelines, where do they stand in the eyes of the law? Are they still vulnerable to civil suits and criminal charges? On this bonus…
Read MoreWhen you think about temp work, short-term office jobs are likely to come to mind. But across North America, all of that is changing. These days, factories and other industrial companies are using temporary laborers to fill jobs that used to go to employees. The combination of low pay, minimal training and reduced liability has…
Read MoreJoin us on Dec. 8 to swap investigative reporting and public records tips, find out how your colleague got that great story and anything else you want to know at a SE Portland watering hole (TBD). Who should attend? Reporters who investigate, investigative reporters, student journalists and editors! RSVP online for the event and join the IRE Portland Meetup…
Read MoreThe numbers are striking: Across the country, some 700-900 women die every year from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes. The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. For more than six months, ProPublica’s Nina Martin and NPR’s Renee Montagne dug into the stories behind these statistics. On this episode of the…
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