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Behind the Story: How the Los Angeles Times turned an anonymous tip into a front-page story

March 12, 2014 | Comments Off on Behind the Story: How the Los Angeles Times turned an anonymous tip into a front-page story

Paige St. John No such records exist. That’s the message Paige St. John received when she requested audit records on the Los Angeles County Probation Department’s GPS monitoring program. Despite the rocky start, the Los Angeles Times reporter went on to break the story about trivial alerts from GPS monitors overwhelming probation officers in LA…

IRE members win awards for health care reporting

March 11, 2014 | Comments Off on IRE members win awards for health care reporting

Several IRE members were among the winners of the 2013 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. The Association of Health Care Journalists received more than 475 entries across 12 categories. Read more about the awards. The following IRE members received recognition: Alison Young and John Hillkirk, USA TODAY, took second place in the Investigative…

IRE to offer Watchdog Workshops in 4 states next month

March 10, 2014 | Comments Off on IRE to offer Watchdog Workshops in 4 states next month

Get the tools and the tricks of the trade you need to be a better, faster watchdog journalist. Each Watchdog Workshop will include several core sessions designed to improve your ability to quickly find information on the Web, work with key documents and data that will help you add depth to your daily work, and…

IRE members win 2014 Goldsmith Prize

March 6, 2014 | Comments Off on IRE members win 2014 Goldsmith Prize

Seven IRE members from two news organizations won the 2014 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Chris Hamby, Ronnie Greene, Jim Morris and Chris Zubak-Skees of the Center for Public Integrity and Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz of ABC News were recognized for their work on “Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried…

IRE members win 2014 Selden Ring Award

February 19, 2014 | Comments Off on IRE members win 2014 Selden Ring Award

Congratulations to IRE members Ellen Gabler and Allan J. Vestal of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for receiving the 2014 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. USC Annenberg recognized Gabler and Vestal, along with colleagues Mark Johnson, John Fauber and Kristyna Wentz-Graff, for their series “Deadly Delays,” which investigated processing failures in newborn screening programs. From the…

13 IRE members honored with Polk awards

February 18, 2014 | Comments Off on 13 IRE members honored with Polk awards

The winners of the 2103 George Polk Awards in Journalism, announced Sunday by Long Island University, included 13 IRE members. The awards honor special achievement in journalism, particularly in the areas of investigative and enterprise reporting. The following IRE members were among this year’s 30 recipients of awards given in 13 categories: Glenn Greenwald (The…

Last day to apply for free IRE, SPJ, NECIR training in Philadelphia

February 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Last day to apply for free IRE, SPJ, NECIR training in Philadelphia

Do you have reporters or editors on your staff who would benefit from training to help them produce enterprise and investigative stories? Thanks to a grant from Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, the Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) is working with Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) to offer a two-day Watchdog Reporting Workshop for…

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