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The 2025 Freelance Fellowship Recipients
A pilot program of IRE student chapters is in place across the country. The goal is to introduce more students to the organization and bring investigative training to college campuses.
Read MoreCongratulations to winners and finalists in the 2024 IRE Awards. The annual contest showcases exemplary work by members of Investigative Reporters and Editors from the past year. Awards will be presented at the 2025 IRE Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, June 21.
Read MoreAs part of IRE’s 50th anniversary and spring member drive, we’re sharing some of the biggest moments in investigative journalism since 1975. This week’s story is about the Spotlight team’s investigation into the Catholic Church.
Read MoreIRE has a longstanding history of teaching journalists and students across the country. Here’s here we’ll be in 2025.
Read MoreAs part of IRE’s 50th anniversary and spring member drive, we’re sharing some of the biggest moments in investigative journalism since 1975. This week’s story is about Don Barlett and James. B Steele’s series “America: What went wrong?”
Read MoreWould you like to help lead Investigative Reporters and Editors as a new member of the Board of Directors? Or help judge the IRE Awards as an elected member of the IRE Contest Committee? Now is your chance! Six of 13 board seats are up for election in 2025, along with two seats on the Contest Committee.
Read MoreBy Will Evans, The Examination, and Caroline Ghisolfi, Houston ChronicleWe knew we had a story when Sam Birdwell answered our call and began talking openly. Birdwell had retired after a long career with the state of Texas, patrolling oil fields to make sure companies followed the rules concerning hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a toxic gas that…
Read MoreBy Christopher Weaver, The Wall Street Journal One doesn’t just wake up one morning and decide to reverse engineer the federal government’s convoluted Medicare Advantage payment system. Taxpayers spend billions of dollars each year on excessive payments to private insurers in Medicare Advantage, but it is shrouded in secrecy and fueled by vast reams of…
Read MoreBy April Simpson, Pratheek Rebala and Alexia Fernández Campbell Every investigative journalist has been there. It’s early in an investigation, and the problem is the size of 27 football fields. That’s how much space the documents could cover if we laid them out. Where do we begin? That’s how we felt at the beginning of…
Read MoreBy Lauren Caruba, The Dallas Morning News In the back of an ambulance in San Antonio, I watched as paramedics worked on a man they had pulled from a house with bullet-riddled windows and blood-smeared tiles. He had been shot twice, in the arm and chest. When I looked down at my shoes, I saw…
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