IRE selects 10 newsrooms for latest Total Newsroom Training program cohort

Ten newsrooms have been chosen to receive custom, grant-funded watchdog training in the coming year through IRE’s Total Newsroom Training program.

TNT provides two days of intensive, in-house training for small and medium-sized newsrooms dedicated to watchdog journalism. This is the 10th year IRE has offered the program.

TNT newsroom training is customized and includes two days of sessions ranging from public records battles to hands-on data analysis to topic-focused trainings like covering education, law enforcement, and underrepresented communities. The newsrooms were chosen from a record number of applicants.

"IRE is known for its passion in supporting and encouraging investigative journalism, and the TNT program allows us to share that passion with a wide diversity of journalists," Executive Director Diana R. Fuentes said. "From Camarillo, California, to Washington, D.C., nearly a dozen newsrooms across the country, including our first Spanish-language newsroom in Puerto Rico, will be receiving top-notch training in data analysis and investigative techniques this year, thanks to the TNT program. We are proud to help our fellow journalists find ways to better serve their communities."

Congratulations to the winning newsrooms:

• Floodlight (Washington, D.C.)
• Gulf States Newsroom (Birmingham, AL, Jackson, MS, New Orleans, LA)
• Oklahoma Watch (Oklahoma City, OK)
• Fort Worth Report (Fort Worth, TX)
• Ventura County Star (Camarillo, CA)
• Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
• Colorado Community Media (Englewood, CO)
• The 19th (Austin TX)
• WHIO-TV (Dayton, OH)
• Chalkbeat (Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Detroit, MI; Indianapolis, IN; Philadelphia, PA; New York, NY; Newark, NY; Memphis, TN )