IRE News
IRE is excited to announce the appointment of Jonathan Kealing as its new Executive Director.
The IRE Board of Directors will elect its new Executive Committee members during a Zoom meeting at 4:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.
June 20, 2026 — IRE members elected seven journalists to the Board of Directors at the annual IRE 2026 Conference in Washington, D.C., and two journalists for the contested seats on the Contest Committee. Four incumbents — Kate Howard of Reveal, Andrew Lehren of The City University of New York, Alejandra Cancino of Injustice Watch…
IRE has awarded the Don Bolles Medal for 2026 to Julie K. Brown for her dogged, indefatigable and fearless investigative reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and the powerful forces that tried to stop it.
Allegany County Attorney T. Lee Beeman, Jr. and Allegany County, Maryland are the winners of the 2026 Golden Padlock Award.
Adam Rhodes, Training Director & Managing Editor It’s Pride Month so of *course* I’m going to shout out “LGBTQ+ Data Reporting and Visualization,” which is a great session if you want to cover LGTQ+ better but also how to better use key data for your next big investigation. I also really want to shout out…