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Whiplash from the backlash: the state of DBEI work in newsrooms in 2025
By Francisco Vara-Orta, IRE & NICAR For anyone who values diversity, belonging, equity and inclusion, it would be an understatement to say this year has taken a toll on those who rely on these principles and champion them. But that doesn’t mean we give up the fight. After the 2024 presidential election results, a rollercoaster…
Read MoreInside The New York Times’s A.I. toolkit
Inside The New York Times’s A.I. toolkit By Duy Nguyen, The New York Times; Illustration by Juliana Castro Varón, The New York Times The daily reality of journalism often involves painstaking work that, while important, has little to do with breaking a story. It’s the mundane task of sifting through thousands of documents, the repetitive…
Read MoreThe 2024 IRE Award Winners Spill Their Secrets
The incredible work done by the winners of of the 2024 IRE Awards has changed and saved lives. These spectacular journalists have crossed borders, built databases, dug through thousands of pages of confidential records, and risked their own safety to reveal wrongdoing from incredibly powerful people. And in a time when those powerful people increasingly…
Read MoreHonoring longtime IRE member and mentor Susan Carroll
Honoring longtime IRE member and mentor Susan Carroll By Lise Olsen, The Texas Observer As a monster storm approached in August 2017, my friend Susan Carroll arranged for others to care for her young children in order to camp out in the Houston Chronicle newsroom along busy Loop 610. She stayed there awaiting the arrival…
Read MoreRemembering Paul Williams
By Doug Meigs In towering all-caps, a 1972 Omaha Sun headline proclaimed: “BOYS TOWN: AMERICA’S WEALTHIEST CITY?” followed by a biblical quote: “‘Give an account of thy stewardship…’ (Luke, 16)” So began an eight-page broadsheet investigation into the murky finances of Boys Town, an esteemed charitable institution that Father Edward J. Flanagan (now on the…
Read MoreCapturing global investigative journalism’s oral history
By 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…
Read MoreIRE partnership receives Press Forward funding to train local newsrooms
Investigative Reporters and Editors will be working with Internet Archive and Poynter Institute on a program to archive and preserve local news, thanks to funding from Press Forward, a national initiative to reimagine local news.
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