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A screenshot from KING 5 TV’s broadcast showing the website for Seattle Fu Hua Enterprises LLC There were elusive aspects to this story that dogged Chris Ingalls from the beginning — the inscrutable website, the murky legal environment, the incognito maternity mansion. But none was more important, or more delicate, than scoring the face-to-face interviews…
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 expression, building…
Trying to boost your data journalism skills? We know it can be hard to learn on your own. For more than 20 years, journalists have used Investigative Reporters & Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting to share ideas, solve problems and discuss techniques for computer-assisted reporting. Today we’re excited to introduce NICAR-Learn, a…
If you’re a journalist in the Chicago area, we hope you’ll join us for a Meetup on Thursday, Nov. 19. We’ll be gathering at Blue Frog 22 starting at 6 pm. Come share tips with future investigative reporters. Our guest this month is Adriana Cardona-Maguigad, a freelance reporter and member of the Social Justice News Nexus team…
A graphic from the Seattle Times’ coverage of the Oso, Washington landslide Does your newsroom have the data and resources it needs to cover the next big storm? With a little preparation, you can have detailed information on critical infrastructure – like dams and levees – ready to go the next time a hurricane or…
(Editor’s note: English translation available below) No importa si es la media noche o en un fin de semana, los más de 2,300 miembros que subscriben a NICAR-L están dispuestos a contestar preguntas sobre temas entre los básicos de usar Microsoft Excel a cartografía avanzada o como hacer codificación. Desde 1994, miembros han publicado más…
We’re excited to announce that IRE is part of a new data journalism internship program being offered by the Dow Jones News Fund. Dow Jones News Fund has a long history of placing students in internships, through its prestigious News Copy Editing Program and other programs. In this new internship, students who are selected to…