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IRE members are invited to participate in a research project conducted by the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The purpose of the study is to investigate journalists’ attitudes toward transparency in the news industry. This research is designed to understand how journalists comprehend, apply, and perceive the concept of transparency…
How to enter the IRE Awards from IRE/NICAR on Vimeo. It’s time to gather your best stories of the year! The 2015 IRE Awards contest is now open for submissions, and we can’t wait to see what you’ve done. Please consider entering your best investigative work into the 2015 IRE Awards contest. Among the most…
By Rana Sabbagh | Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism Amman, November 29, 2015 – Most top Arab TV presenters and journalists are remarkably candid these days about their survival kit: hear no evil; see no evil; speak no evil. After a brief lull, brought about by the Arab Spring upheavals, they have decided to support their…
Find this story in the latest issue of the IRE Journal By Nikole Hannah-Jones | New York Times Magazine The last year has been a particularly tumultuous one when it comes to race in the United States. We’ve seen riots in two cities following the police killings of unarmed black men. There have been nationwide protests…
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…