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Central Ohio Journos: Let’s gather with the Kip Fellows

April 20, 2017 | Comments Off on Central Ohio Journos: Let’s gather with the Kip Fellows

Please join us Thursday, April 27 at 5:30 p.m. at  Longaberger Alumni House, The Ohio State University, 2200 Olentangy River Road. The Kiplinger Program has invited our IRE Meetup group to a reception for its fellows – and are providing free drinks and appetizers! RSVP online for the event and join the IRE Ohio Meetup…

Key steps in the social verification process

April 18, 2017 | Comments Off on Key steps in the social verification process

In the 2017 First Quarter IRE Journal, Fergus Bell of Dig Deeper Media wrote about lessons from Electionland, one of the largest social newsgathering operations ever performed over the course of one day. More than 600 journalism students and experienced journalists worked together to monitor and verify social content around indicators of voter suppression on…

Consider running for the IRE Board of Directors, Contest Committee

April 17, 2017 | Comments Off on Consider running for the IRE Board of Directors, Contest Committee

Starting today, IRE will begin accepting applications for candidates for the IRE Board of Directors. This year six of the board’s 13 seats are up for election.  The initial filing period for candidates is April 17 – May 21. All candidates filing by this time will appear on the initial ballot when voting begins on June 1.  Electronic…

IRE members win 2017 Pulitzer Prizes

April 12, 2017 | Comments Off on IRE members win 2017 Pulitzer Prizes

Several members of Investigative Reporters and Editors were among the journalists recognized in the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes: Sarah Ryley, along with the New York Daily News and ProPublica, won the Pulitzer for Public Service for exposing the NYPD’s abuse of eviction rules and eviction of hundreds of people. The East Bay Times won the Breaking…

Announcing the 2016 IRE Award winners and finalists

April 4, 2017 | Comments Off on Announcing the 2016 IRE Award winners and finalists

IRE is proud to announce the winners and finalists of the 2016 IRE Awards.  In the year in which presidential politics seemingly dominated the news, journalists from around the world exposed doctors who preyed on their patients and USA gymnastics coaches who sexually assaulted young athletes. The work of other journalists led to improved living…

Cody Winchester joins IRE as training director

March 23, 2017 | Comments Off on Cody Winchester joins IRE as training director

Cody Winchester of the Austin American-Statesman will join the IRE staff April 3 as a training director. Cody brings six years of reporting experience plus advanced computer coding skills to the position. In Austin, Cody worked on a team at the newspaper that develops, tests and deploys interactive graphics, applications and other web products. Previously, he worked…

Highlighting the 2016 IRE Award screeners and judges

March 20, 2017 | Comments Off on Highlighting the 2016 IRE Award screeners and judges

IRE would like to thank and highlight the journalists who gave their time, energy and expertise to screen nearly 500 entries for the 2016 IRE Awards. Each year, around mid-January, IRE receives hundreds of stories submitted in hopes of winning an IRE Award. In total, these entries consist of upwards of 100 hours of video…

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