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IRE selects 8 newsrooms for latest Total Newsroom Training cohort
These eight newsrooms will receive custom, grant-funded watchdog training in 2024 through IRE’s Total Newsroom Training program.
Read MoreIRE selects 10 newsrooms for latest Total Newsroom Training program cohort
Ten newsrooms have been chosen to receive custom, grant-funded watchdog training in the coming year through IRE’s Total Newsroom Training program.
Read MoreApplications open for 2023 Total Newsroom Training
IRE’s grant-funded, customized training program, Total Newsroom Training, is returning for its 10th year and applications are now open.
Read More10 newsrooms to receive free IRE Total Newsroom Training
Ten newsrooms have been chosen to receive custom watchdog training through IRE’s Total Newsroom Training program. TNT provides two days of intensive, in-house training for small and medium-sized newsrooms dedicated to watchdog journalism. This is the sixth year IRE has offered the free program, which is supported through a grant. TNT newsroom training is customized…
Read MoreApply by July 2 for chance at free IRE training for your newsroom
Applications are now open for Total Newsroom Training — IRE’s grant-funded, customized training program that is returning for its fifth year. IRE’s experienced trainers will come to selected newsrooms for two days of intense, in-house investigative training – at no cost. Spots in the program are limited and awarded on a competitive basis. Total Newsroom Training…
Read MoreIRE awards free training to 10 newsrooms, announces new fellowship
A record number of ten newsrooms were chosen for IRE’s Total Newsroom Training this year. TNT provides intense, in-house training for small and medium-sized newsrooms dedicated to watchdog journalism. This is the third year IRE has offered the free program. New this year are TNT Boot Camp Fellowships. Nine TNT alumni will be awarded free training to IRE’s…
Read MoreGovernments battle to maintain bridges
By Ryan McGeeney, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette When Washington County employees began tearing down the Miley Wagon Bridge near Baldwin earlier this year, there was no doubt about how the county was going to stay within its estimated $400,000 budget for the project: in-house manpower and resourceful purchasing. A quarter of the road bridges in Arkansas are…
Read MoreEnforcement Works To Keep Alcohol Violations In Check
By Misty Gittings, NWAonline Businesses selling alcoholic beverages in Benton and Washington counties had 72 violations from March 2012 through February, according to records from the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Division. Full story: http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2013/apr/21/enforcement-works-keep-alcohol-violations-check/ This story was published with help from IRE’s Total Newsroom Training
Read More180 Arkansas facilities, mainly wholesale, retail, store fertilizer
By Ryan McGeeney, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Only one fertilizer manufacturer in Arkansas currently reports storing both anhydrous ammonia and ammonium nitrate, the two chemical compounds thought to be responsible for the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, on April 17. Full story: http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=899415213 This story was published with help from IRE’s Total Newsroom Training
Read MoreSt. Clair County’s part-time employees earn the same benefits as those who work full time
By Daniel Kelley, The Belleville News Democrat A review of the salaries and benefits of public employees and elected officials at St. Clair County found the county spent more than $1 million on such benefits for 86 part-time employees and politicians. County officials say the benefits are necessary as an incentive to draw better employees…
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