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The recent death of longtime investigative journalist and former IRE board member Mike McGraw is a significant loss for the IRE community. McGraw was remembered recently during a memorial service in Kansas City. McGraw was a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who served on IRE’s board of directors from 1994-2000. He died earlier this month of…
Mike McGraw (Photo from Facebook) UPDATE: IRE will have a special remembrance of Mike McGraw during the national IRE conference June 14-17 in Orlando. By Brant Houston Mike McGraw was an exemplary investigative journalist, an inspiring teacher, a strong defender of those exploited and ignored, and a colleague who not only celebrated his fellow reporters’ best work,…
Thanks to the generosity of many, IRE is fortunate to have funding available to provide fellowships to its training events. These fellowships provide financial assistance to attend IRE boot camps. This month, IRE awarded six fellowships for the January 2018 CAR Boot Camp. Jenni Monet, a freelance journalist from Tucson, Arizona, and Kristen Taketa, from…
The 2017 IRE Awards are now open for entries! We know there’s been a lot of great investigative work done during the year and can’t wait to see what you enter! You’ll notice some changes to the size specifications of the print/online and broadcast/video categories. In order to better reflect the ways in which our…
Join us on Dec. 8 to swap investigative reporting and public records tips, find out how your colleague got that great story and anything else you want to know at a SE Portland watering hole (TBD). Who should attend? Reporters who investigate, investigative reporters, student journalists and editors! RSVP online for the event and join the IRE Portland Meetup…
Want to get more involved with IRE but aren’t sure how? Consider volunteering your time as an IRE Awards screener. As a screener, you’d be part of a team of journalists looking for the best investigative reporting in a single category, which means that you may have to read, listen to, or watch a couple…
Are you a college journalism student who enjoys holding government officials accountable, scouring public records or working with data? If so, consider spending your summer at IRE through the Google News Lab Fellowship. Eight participating organizations in the U.S. select students who will spend ten weeks working on projects focused on data journalism, online free…