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Winners of CAR Conference drawing announced
Thank you to the dozens of members who submitted more than 40 panel ideas for the 2012 CAR Conference in St. Louis. IRE’s staff, and the local organizing committee for the conference, is reviewing submissions and beginning to piece together the schedule for the four-day conference Feb. 23-26, 2012. Continue to check IRE.org for updates about the conference…
Read MoreData visualization training, discount to SND conference for IRE members
Learn data visualization during a one-day workshop presented by IRE and The Society for News Design. Sarah Cohen, Jaimi Dowdell and Derek Willis will lead the hands-on workshop that’ll take attendees from soup-to-nuts in data manipulation and visualization. We’ll start off teaching where to find public data, how to clean, organize and prepare it, including some Excel training,…
Read MoreFund honors memory of longtime IRE member and leader David Dietz
A fellowship fund has been created to honor the memory of longtime IRE member David Dietz, president of our organization in 2001-02. Dave was a beloved colleague and friend to many IRE members, and was honored last year with IRE’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his many contributions. Over the past decade, Dave worked…
Read MoreTraining from Orlando you can take home
More than 850 journalists, educators and other professionals learned new skills, shared ideas and discussed best practices for journalism at the 2011 IRE Conference. Whether you made it to the conference or not, there are tips and tools that can be used in daily reporting and long-term projects.Now that the conference is in the past,…
Read MoreNew board members elected at membership meeting
Four incumbents and two new members were elected to the IRE Board of Directors during the annual membership meeting June 11 in Orlando. The board members will serve two-year terms on the 13-member board. Here are the election winners (with vote totals): Incumbent Alison Young, USA Today (207) Incumbent Leonard Downie, Jr., Arizona State University/ The Washington…
Read MoreDocumentCloud joins IRE
Investigative Reporters and Editors is proud to announce that DocumentCloud is becoming part of our organization. DocumentCloud, funded through a grant from the Knight News Challenge, provides a set of tools and technologies designed to help journalists analyze and share source documents, and make it simple to publish those documents to the Web. Launched less than…
Read MoreIRE announces new online Census service
Investigative Reporters and Editors is pleased to announce the next phase in our ongoing Census project, designed to make it easier and faster for journalists to work with 2010 Census data. The new online interactive tool has been developed to crunch and download data from the next series of census data releases this summer. The…
Read MoreFormer IRE Board president Dietz remembered as strong leader, stellar journalist
Longtime IRE member David Dietz, president of our organization in 2001-02, passed away Wednesday, June 1, after a battle with cancer. Dave was a beloved colleague and friend to many of us, and was honored last year with IRE’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his many contributions. Over the past decade, Dave worked as…
Read MoreIt’s not too late to attend the IRE Conference in Orlando!
While early-bird registration has ended, you have not missed your opportunity to attend this great training event. On-site registrations will be accepted beginning Wednesday, June 8 at 4 p.m. and will continue through Saturday during the conference, being held at the Renaissance Orlando SeaWorld, 6677 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida. View the schedule and expected speakers today!
Read MoreSpecial screening of PAGE ONE: Inside The New York Times at IRE 2011
IRE will host a special advance screening of the acclaimed new documentary from Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media, PAGE ONE: Inside The New York Times, at its 2011 Conference in Orlando. The screening, with writer-director Andrew Rossi and Participant Media’s EVP of Documentary Films Diane Weyermann in attendance, will take place Friday, June 10th at…
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