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On June 21, 2025, Jim Steele delivered a no-holds-barred, deeply stirring keynote speech at the IRE25 Awards Luncheon in New Orleans, celebrating the organization’s 50th anniversary. This is a complete, unredacted version of his address.
When investigating topics with large data sets, reporters have to become creative and proactive in order to include all the crucial information to make the story pop. In this edition of Data Dive in The IRE Journal, we feature two investigative data pieces about the American health crisis.
This edition of “Show Your Work” compiles five essential data journalism resources from Ben Welsh’s website, palewire. Welsh, a longtime IRE member, frequently speaks at IRE and NICAR conferences. His website offers transparent guidance for others to build their data journalism skills, while also providing tips and tricks for tackling some of data journalists' most prevalent problems.
June 20, 2025 | Audrey Carleton, Bruce Gil, Emily Nadal and Zachary Smith
In the final semester of their graduate studies, four CUNY student journalists joined Katherine Eban on a three-year investigation to expose ethical problems with a deep brain stimulation research study.
In honor of IRE's 50th anniversary, we are featuring photos, testimonials and stories — along with miscellaneous personal arcana — from members. Explore our new 50th anniversary microsite to learn more about IRE's five decades supporting investigative journalism.
June 6, 2025 | Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University, and Brant Houston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Continued expansion in the nonprofit sector, a diversifying investigative workforce, and growing pessimism about the future of journalism are among the main takeaways from a broad national survey of IRE members conducted in 2023 and 2013.
April 3, 2025 | 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 patient data.
April 3, 2025 | Will Evans, The Examination, and Caroline Ghisolfi, Houston Chronicle
Sam Birdwell said there was something that still kept him up at night: the elderly residents and young children who were exposed to the gas — not enough to kill, but enough to make them sick. He’d seen too many oil facilities leaking H2S in residential neighborhoods, near schools and families. And he didn’t have the tools to make it stop.
April 2, 2025 | 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 the man’s blood spattered across my sneaker.
March 27, 2025 | April Simpson, Pratheek Rebala and Alexia Fernández Campbell, Center for Public Integrity
Using AI and historical records, investigative journalists at partnering newsrooms uncovered names of formerly enslaved people who received – and then lost – land promised under Reconstruction.
