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IRE Board Office Hours: How to run for the board

April 11 @ 12:00 PM

Have you always wanted to know more about how IRE works? Do you have questions or ideas for the organization? Or are you just looking to get to know some of IRE's leaders? Join the IRE Board of Directors for this virtual office hour.

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IRE Oklahoma City Watchdog Workshop (April 12 & 13)

April 12 @ 9:00 AM

Elevate your investigative and data skills by joining IRE for a day and a half of professional development training at the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits, April 12 and 13, 2024.

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Mini-Bootcamp online: Data cleaning (April 2024)

April 16

Current IRE membership required | April 16-April 25 | Tickets cost $200-600

Over the course of four sessions, attendees will learn various tools and strategies for dealing with “dirty data”: messy values, typos, incorrect data types, bad formatting and unstructured data. The trainers will focus on free tools and techniques that require little to no coding, starting with functions and features in Google Sheets. Attendees will also get an introduction to the basics of some command line utilities; OpenRefine, which has powerful clustering algorithms for tackling messy values; and regular expressions, an incredibly powerful cleaning tool for unstructured data. The workshop uses real-world data examples and covers best practices and strategies for cleaning data. This bootcamp will take place 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. ET on the following days: April 16, April 18, April 23 and April 25.

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Unearthing the secrets of politicians and public officials

April 16 @ 1:00 PM

Join us to learn how to scrub any politician or candidate, think about what questions to ask and hold the powers that be accountable this election year.

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2024 April 19 IRE Board of Directors Meeting

April 19 @ 10:00 AM

The IRE Board of Directors will meet from 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. ET on Friday, April 19, 2024. The meeting's agenda will be posted soon.

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Investigating research fraud and errors: Tips and tools to help you get started

April 25 @ 12:00 PM

Thousands of academic research papers get retracted each year, often because of ethics violations, data manipulation and other forms of research misconduct. Despite the immense impact bad research can have on public health and safety — and even though the U.S. government spends billions of dollars a year on research projects — few journalists monitor and report on research fraud and errors.

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IRE Chicago Watchdog Workshop (May 10)

May 10 @ 9:00 AM

Elevate your investigative and data skills by joining IRE for a day of professional development training in Chicago at the Medill School of Journalism's downtown campus at Northwestern University, on May 10, 2024.

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Cover crime? You need to hear this: Victim-first, trauma-informed reporting 

May 14 @ 1:00 PM

Let’s find ways to inform without hurting, to advocate without re-traumatizing, and to talk to people in pain that may help them heal — versus leaving more agony in our wake. 

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2024 IRE Conference

June 20

IRE’s annual investigative journalism conference will take place in Anaheim, California, June 20-23, 2024. The conference begins Thursday, June 20 at 9 a.m. and runs daily until 12:30 p.m. Sunday, June 23. Registration includes the welcome reception, the IRE Awards Luncheon and the closing reception.

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August 2024 Data Journalism Bootcamp - Google Sheets + Python 🐍 (In-Person)

August 5 @ 12:00 PM

Current IRE membership required | August 5-9 | Tickets cost $500-$1,250.

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