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Announcing the 2025 Philip Meyer Award Winners

IRE is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Philip Meyer Journalism Award! The Baltimore Banner earned the first-place prize, second place was awarded to ProPublica, and third place went to the Arizona Republic. Judges gave Bloomberg News an honorable mention and The Blade received a special mention.

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New from the IRE Journal: a look at the Oscar-nominated documentary, The Alabama Solution

When Charlotte Kaufman and Andrew Jarecki visited Easterling prison in Alabama as media seven years ago, they didn’t know what to expect — but they knew that it is rare to get an opportunity to report from a prison, so they took the chance. What started as a filmed visit during a prison barbeque turned into more when incarcerated people started pulling them to the side to inform them about deadly conditions, and the reporters who told these stories want journalists everywhere to take this as a lesson that incarcerated voices are important, even necessary, for the work we do.

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Help us welcome three new staff members to the IRE team! Benét Wilson is our newest training director, Aaricka Washington takes on the role of marketing and promotions specialist and Krista Sporleder joins us as the IRE program coordinator.

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