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The rise, fall and (possible) resurgence of FOIA audits

August 5, 2025 | Jordan P. Hickey, independent journalist
30 years ago, FOIA audits challenged government secrecy and ushered in a new era of Sunshine. Could they do so again?
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Remembering Paul Williams

August 6, 2025 | Doug Meigs, IRE & NICAR
Explore how Omaha’s last Pulitzer Prize connects Warren Buffett to the foundation of modern investigative journalism methodology (through the life and legacy of IRE co-founder Paul Williams).
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Capturing global investigative journalism’s oral history

July 23, 2025 | Silas Tsang, WTOL-TV
There is a new effort to document the oral history of investigative journalism around the world. It's the brainchild of investigative reporter Adiel Kaplan at Columbia Journalism School. The goal of her project is to preserve key perspectives on how the methods and tools of accountability reporting spread globally since the 1970s.
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Despite attacks, industry turmoil, journalists declare: We are staying

July 11, 2025 | IRE staff
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.
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Probing the ethics of controversial brain research

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.
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Sharing your favorite IRE memories

June 19, 2025 | IRE staff
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.
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New survey reveals state of 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.
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Reverse engineering Medicare, Inc.

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.
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Hydrogen sulfide hotspots, regulatory failure

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.
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Mapping preventable death in “Bleeding Out”

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. 
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