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The 2025 Freelance Fellowship Recipients

IRE is excited to announce that the recipients of the 2025 IRE Freelance Fellowship are Jennifer Chowdhury and Molly Cotner! In their respective projects, Jennifer will investigate the U.S. government’s inconsistent approach to granting citizenship to children born through international surrogacy, while Molly will lead a community-centered investigation into the realities of the childcare crisis…

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Call for entries: 2025 IRE Awards

Call for entries: 2025 IRE Awards (Dec. 19, 2025) – It’s that time of year again! The 2025 IRE Awards are now open! We’re excited to announce a few new categories this year as well as a brand new contest platform. We’ve expanded the print/online, video and audio categories to include outstanding international investigations. Our…

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Join us at The National Summit on Local News Preservation

This event seeks to bring together representatives from news and cultural heritage organizations. Editors, reporters, and journalists from all types of media organizations are encouraged to attend, as are archivists, librarians, and other heritage professionals.

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Coming soon: a new IRE website

IRE members will soon be able to enjoy a new and improved website!  “Staff and volunteers have been hard at work for long months to develop and test the new site — and now we’re about ready to launch,” said IRE Executive Director Diana Fuentes.”It shows IRE’s commitment to meaningful improvements that put members first,…

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David Dietz Fellowship

Provides assistance to attend the IRE Conference. Description Established in 2011 for the late David Dietz, an award-winning journalist and a past president of IRE, the fellowship supports early-career journalists who have a demonstrated interest in financial investigative reporting. Who is eligible? Journalists and independent journalists with less than 10 years’ professional experience, who have a…

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Napoli Management Group TV Scholarship

Napoli Management Group TV Scholarship Provides assistance to attend the IRE Conference. Description Established by the Napoli Management Group to assist aspiring early-career watchdog journalists, who would not have the financial means, in receiving training at the IRE Conference. Who is eligible? Early-career (five or fewer years of post-college work experience) TV journalists interested in…

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The Arizona Project

The Arizona Project is an important chapter in Investigative Reporters and Editors’ story. Journalists across the country came together to complete the work of Don Bolles, an Arizona Republic investigative reporter murdered in 1976 in retaliation for his reporting. The large-scale collaboration, the first of its kind in American journalism, took place just a year…

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From the Editor: Welcome to the “new” IRE Journal

From the Editor: Welcome to the “new” IRE Journal By Adam Rhodes, IRE & NICAR This isn’t going to be a “things I’m thankful for” essay, I swear. But I am lucky to have a lot to be thankful for. My sweet albeit ornery beagle, a healthy family and trusted friends, a steady income, Ariana…

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