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IRE announces 50th Anniversary Task Force

(March 6, 2024) COLUMBIA, Missouri — Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), the largest professional journalism association in the United States, is launching a new initiative to mark the upcoming 50th anniversary of its founding. The nonprofit organization, which will reach the milestone in 2025, has created a special task force to plan events to celebrate…

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IRE announces winners of the 2023 Philip Meyer Journalism Award

IRE Philip Meyer Award

January 17, 2024 “Still Loading,” The Markup investigation, which exposed vast disparities in internet service quality from four major providers, earned the first place prize in the 2023 Philip Meyer Journalism Award. The Meyer Award recognizes the best uses of social science research methods in journalism. It is named for Philip Meyer, the author of…

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IRE announces winners of 2022 Philip Meyer Journalism Award

IRE Philip Meyer Award

A partnership between The Associated Press and PBS FRONTLINE that dug deeply into evidence of war crimes in Ukraine earned the first place prize in the 2022 Philip Meyer Journalism Award.  Other top honors go to The Los Angeles Times for its project “Extreme Heat’s Deadly Toll,” and a collaboration between The Marshall Project, WOVU and Cleveland Documenters that gives a comprehensive assessment of multiple systems that have bolstered inequities in a marginalized community.

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IRE New York Workshop: January 20-21

Join Investigative Reporters and Editors for a special New York Workshop at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY January 20-21. Sessions on sourcing, backgrounding, business reporting and more will be led by some of the nation’s most widely respected journalists, including Wesley Lowery and Walt Bogdanich. Check out the full slate of speakers…

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Q&A with IRE Journalist of Color fellow Sameea Kamal

2020 IRE Journalist of Color Fellowship recipient Sameea Kamal

The IRE Journalist of Color Investigative Reporting Fellowship is a year-long program intended to prepare and support a journalist of color for a solid career in investigative reporting. The program also provides an opportunity for the fellow’s news outlets to benefit from the fellow’s investigative skill-building. An underlying goal of the program is to increase…

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