Welcome to IRE!
Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. IRE was formed to create a forum in which journalists throughout the world could help each other by sharing story ideas, newsgathering techniques and news sources.
IRE provides members access to thousands of reporting tipsheets and other materials through its Resource Center and hosts conferences and specialized training across the country. Programs of IRE include the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR), a collaboration between IRE and the Missouri School of Journalism.
IRE News
If you’re planning to come to the IRE Conference in Boston next month, we’ve got a strong line-up of data-focused panels and hands-on training sessions that you won’t want to miss. A major focus of Thursday — the conference pre-day — is dedicated to computer-assisted reporting. We’ll have sessions on negotiating for data, analyzing unstructured…
Learn how to follow the campaign money trail and track political influence in a series of panels at next month’s IRE Conference in Boston.Our focus on Campaign 2012 kicks off with a free pre-day workshop focusing on companies’ influence on politics and the election. The sessions, sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for…
Tomorrow, May 22nd is the last day to request an absentee ballot to vote in our 2012 BOD elections. If you are unable to attend our 2012 conference in Boston, and your membership is current to 7/1/12, then you can vote for your favorite candidate via absentee ballot. Candidates and their statements can be viewed…
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