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The 2025 Freelance Fellowship Recipients
Projects investigating the U.S. war on terror, immigration and American business practices in Mexico have been awarded IRE Freelance Fellowships this year. The winners of the 2017 competition are: Anna Cavell, first place, is a freelance journalist based in the United Kingdom whose work has appeared on the BBC and Al Jazeera English. Her documentary…
Read MorePlease join The Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Online News Association, Asian American Journalists Association, National Association of Black Journalists – L.A. and CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California /National Association of Hispanic Journalists to mix, mingle, mega schmooze, socialize, have fun and network. WHEN: Tuesday, July…
Read MoreBy Charles Minshew, Director of Data Services Today, the White House released the salaries of Executive Office staff members as a PDF. The NICAR Data Library has converted this file to a CSV for download, publication and sharing. You can access the file in our Github repository. The database includes salaries for 377 Executive Office…
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Read MoreBy Ashley Sutherland, Arizona State University Delays. Excessive redactions. Fees. These are just some of the issues journalists and other citizens face when requesting public records from the government. David Cuillier, director of the University of Arizona School of Journalism, and Miranda Spivack, a professor of journalism at DePauw University, offered tips and strategies on how…
Read MoreMining data and digging for documents can be powerful tools for finding families who may not be getting the best special education services. David DesRoches of WNPR in Connecticut, Brian Rosenthal of The New York Times and Heather Vogell of ProPublica shared this tip and more during their IRE Conference panel, “Investigating special education.” “Remember…
Read More“But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.” To Ken Armstrong, a writer at The Marshall Project, these 12 words from Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” demonstrate the epitome of good storytelling. “A great lyric can tell you a story in just a few words,” Armstrong told conference IRE Conference attendees.…
Read MoreBy Ashley Sutherland, Arizona State University Although mental health-related police shootings and violence against law enforcement occur nationwide, there’s limited data on these kinds of cases. During the “When mental health and criminal justice collide” session at the 2017 IRE Conference, Eric Wieffering of the Star Tribune, Kimbriell Kelly of The Washington Post and Josh Hinkle…
Read MoreInvestigative Reporters and Editors has named Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the winner of its annual Golden Padlock Award recognizing the most secretive U.S. agency or individual. Pruitt was selected for this honor for steadfastly refusing to provide emails in the public interest and removing information…
Read More“I was the first person who asked him why he killed someone,” recalled Amy Brittain, an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. As part of a Thursday session on prison and jails, Brittain discussed one of the subjects of her investigation into an old Washington, D.C. law that allowed violent offenders to remain on the…
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