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A white Kansas City, Kansas, police detective spent decades terrorizing Black residents, acting with impunity and moving up the career ladder in a corrupt, racist department. “Overlooked” examines the full […]
This issue of The IRE Journal looks at reporting on the criminal justice system and its shortcomings. It includes tips on investigating incarcerations, reporting in the age of virality and […]
Public lands visitation is skyrocketing across the country and the fight over land is boiling along with the environment, while locals and Native Americans are caught in the middle. Now, […]
This practical workshop will lay out public records to help attendees examine racial justice in their communities, and how to acquire those records. From police abuse, to red lining, to […]
At this moment of racial reckoning, the sins of a racist past have become the subject of investigative stories across the country and world. Mara Williams of the Kansas City […]
Students examined 5,000 white-owned newspapers published between 1865 and 1965 – focusing on those still in existence today – to identify stories that incited racial violence. Once they identified particularly […]
“Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe,” created by reporter/host Al Letson and reporter Jonathan Jones, investigates the 2008 suspicious death of Billey Joe Johnson Jr., a 17-year-old Black high […]
The Associated Press revealed a pattern of violence against mostly Black motorists that the Louisiana State Police had kept shrouded in secrecy, and exposed the culture of impunity, nepotism and […]
We dive into the pattern of hate speech on the campus of William & Mary, as well as other Virginia state colleges. We find that this pattern of hate is […]
On the surface, this is an investigative podcast that examines a prominent, unsolved Civil Rights-era murder. Using the structural device of a whodunit, the show painstakingly reinvestigates the crime, and […]
Development Arrested is a deep investigation into the racist history and modern inequality of Mississippi’s system for prosecuting children as adults. It is told strikingly in real time as a […]
After we analyzed nearly half a million stops made in Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland, the state’s largest cities, we noticed a large discrepancy in the racial makeup of the data. […]
It has never been more important for journalists to write carefully and thoughtfully, especially when writing about underrepresented groups. Harmful language like "chain migration," "suffering from" a disease or using […]
Break open those notebooks and get ready to fill them with story ideas! This fast-paced, 30-minute session will give you months worth of investigative and watchdog story ideas for digging […]
In city after city across the United States, the coronavirus has devastated Black and brown communities. In this panel, investigative reporters from three different publications will share their secrets for […]
Exposing inequality does not have to be reserved for the "race beat" or a specialized position. These stories are waiting to be told across all beats. In this panel, you'll […]
