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Transparency Watch: What journalists need to know about FOIAonline

Published: October 11, 2012 | Written by: hdcoadmin
Federal agencies have launched FOIAonline, a tool that journalists can use to file, track and appeal requests for documents and data under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. Here's what you […]
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Behind the Story: Investigating a building collapse, creating an interactive timeline

Published: October 9, 2012 | Written by: hdcoadmin
A normal day on the local government beat became two months of investigating for Lansing State Journal reporter Lindsay VanHulle.  After a portion of the residential St. Anne Lofts building […]
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Transparency Watch: FOIA requests getting outsourced

Published: October 9, 2012 | Written by: hdcoadmin
In a follow-up to its story on the failure's of Obama administration agencies to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests, Bloomberg News reports that at least 25 percent of FOIA requests […]
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Spreading computer-assisted reporting techniques in Latin America

Published: October 6, 2012 | Written by: hdcoadmin
By Mc Nelly Torres Víctor Hugo Michel is excited and overwhelmed. He hasn’t stopped thinking about all the stories he will be able to report and write using the data analysis […]
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Behind the Story: Using tips from sources, data and documents to uncover inflated hospital prices

Published: October 5, 2012 | Written by: hdcoadmin
On Thursday, The Charlotte Observer and the News & Observer in Raleigh won bronze in the Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, funded by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for […]
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IRE members among Barlett & Steele Awards winners

Published: October 4, 2012 | Written by: hdcoadmin
The New York Times, USA Today and a joint project by The Charlotte Observer and The Raleigh News & Observer were winners in the sixth annual Barlett & Steele Awards for […]
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Bloomberg reporters find FOIA failures in Obama administration

Published: October 3, 2012 | Written by: hdcoadmin
Transparency Watch is an occasional series from IRE tracking the fight for open records. If you have a story about a quest for public records you'd like to share, email us at web@ire.org. […]
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Behind the Story: The cost of sugar supports

Published: October 2, 2012 | Written by: hdcoadmin
In a recent piece for the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, Amy Green reports on the cost of sugar supports to American taxpayers.  She is currently working on a book […]
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Scranton Workshop: Invaluable investigative tools

Published: October 2, 2012 | Written by: hdcoadmin
By Christopher Dolan, University of Scranton From the art of the interview to “Facebook creeping,” we learned many invaluable investigative tools at IRE’s Scranton Watchdog Workshop. During the day-long event, various […]
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Now accepting 2013 CAR Conference T-shirt designs

Published: October 2, 2012 | Written by: hdcoadmin
The journalists who attend the Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference do many things for their newsrooms: They analyze data, build websites, write stories, scrape and acquire records. To honor this work, the National Institute […]
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