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Nieman Lab hosts Q&A with new INN/IRE Director of Data Services

July 1, 2013 | Comments Off on Nieman Lab hosts Q&A with new INN/IRE Director of Data Services

Nieman Lab held its Monday Q&A with Denise Malan, the new Director of Data Services in a collaboration between IRE and the Investigative News Network. In that role, Malan will focus primarily on obtaining and analyzing data sets that can be used by INN members; the data will also ultimately be archived in IRE’s library. She talked…

Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism to remain at University of Wisconsin-Madison location

July 1, 2013 | Comments Off on Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism to remain at University of Wisconsin-Madison location

Andy Hall, of the Wisconsin CEnter for Investigative Journalism, addresses IRE members at the 2013 Awards Luncheon on June 22 in San Antonio. Photo by Travis Hartman The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin State Journal report that Gov. Scott Walker has decided to veto a budget measure that would have forced the nonprofit Wisconsin…

IRE remembers Kelly Guckian

June 27, 2013 | Comments Off on IRE remembers Kelly Guckian

For many of us in this organization we have two families – our personal one and our IRE family. Today I was heartbroken to hear that we’d lost Kelly Guckian from our IRE family.  For those of you who didn’t get the pleasure to meet Kelly, she was kind and sincere. She also loved data,…

U.S. Border Patrol wins Inaugural Golden Padlock Award

June 24, 2013 | Comments Off on U.S. Border Patrol wins Inaugural Golden Padlock Award

The Golden Padlock Award. Photo: Travis Hartman. Investigative Reporters and Editors has named the U.S. Border Patrol as the winner of its first annual Golden Padlock Award recognizing a U.S. government agency or individual for unrelenting commitment to undermining the public’s right to know. The country’s largest law-enforcement agency was chosen among dozens of nominations…

Six members elected to IRE Board

June 22, 2013 | Comments Off on Six members elected to IRE Board

IRE members elected six new directors to the IRE board on Saturday evening at the organization’s annual conference in San Antonio. The newly elected members are: Leonard Downie Jr., the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University; Matt Goldberg, NBC Bay Area; Ziva Branstetter, Tulsa World; T. Christian Miller, ProPublica; Josh Meyer, Medill National…

Tableau makes its desktop software free to IRE members

June 20, 2013 | Comments Off on Tableau makes its desktop software free to IRE members

** 2018 update: Please read this blog post on additional free Tableau benefits for current IRE members ** Today IRE is announcing a partnership with Tableau Software, maker of Tableau Public, to provide Tableau Desktop free to IRE Members. This should provide tremendous value for IRE members, who can use Tableau Desktop to develop stories…

Making the reporting transparent after an agency demands retraction

June 18, 2013 | Comments Off on Making the reporting transparent after an agency demands retraction

For the past several months, we at inewsource have been reporting on San Diego’s North County Transit District, a public transportation agency that is going through a bit of turmoil — to put it politely. The district has been aggressive in its response to our stories. It’s sent out dozens of tweets calling us “just…

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