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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The IRE team grows + promotions

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.

In the promotions department, Adam Rhodes has been promoted to managing editor of the IRE Journal and Lauren Grandestaff was promoted to deputy executive director.

Jaimi Dowdell to leave IRE in January

December 20, 2016 | Comments Off

IRE’s longest-serving trainer, Jaimi Dowdell, will leave her position at the end of January to complete her Spotlight Investigative Journalism Fellowship and pursue other career opportunities. Since 2008, Dowdell has trained thousands of journalists in watchdog reporting and data analysis. “Jaimi is exceptionally gifted as a trainer. She’s a dynamic presenter and runs amazingly effective…

Jan. 12 event in D.C. will honor David Donald

December 15, 2016 | Comments Off

An event to celebrate the legacy of David Donald will be held Jan. 12 at American University in Washington, D.C. All are welcome at the 6:30 p.m. remembrance and reception, hosted by the School of Communication in the McKinley Building. Full details are available on the Celebrating David Donald event page on Facebook. The evening…

Moving the needle on freedom of information – your insights needed for Knight study

December 14, 2016 | Comments Off

The Knight Foundation wants to know what you think about the state of access to public records at the federal and state/local levels. Anyone interested in FOI – journalists, access professionals, librarians and others – are invited to share their thoughts. The online survey takes about 15 minutes to complete and will be open until Jan.…

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