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NICAR 2026 tipsheets and audio
NICAR 2026 tipsheets and audio Speakers, please send your tipsheets to tipsheets@ire.org. Audio from recorded sessions will be posted when it’s processed. Loading …
Read MoreIRE urges the release of Nashville reporter by federal immigration authorities
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) urges the release of Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter with Nashville Noticias and Univision 42 Nashville, whose coverage has included immigration enforcement. She was taken into custody while in a marked news vehicle, according to Nashville Noticias. Rodríguez, who faced death threats in her home country of Colombia, applied for political…
Read MoreConference pre-registration classes
Conference pre-registration classes Some of the sessions at our conferences require pre-registration and an additional fee to save a seat. How to sign up Policies How to sign up First step: Log into our new member portal. (If you need help, click on “Signup/login help” on this page.) Once you’re signed in, the process from…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2026 Lightning Talks lineup!
by Adam Rhodes In about a week, hundreds of my favorite nerds are going to descend on Indianapolis to dive deep into panels and roundtables, spreadsheets classes and all the other things that make NICAR so unique. Disguised as a delightfully dorky meetup of data journalists, NICAR is an unmatched chance to expand your reporting…
Read MoreDon’t know what to attend at NICAR26? The IRE staff is here to help!
So you’ve landed in Indianapolis. You’re at the JW Marriott. You’re checking the schedule and….. whoa. It’s pretty overwhelming, right? With more than 200 hours of programming spanning nearly a week, it’s hard to plan what to see, who to talk to and when to go where. But the IRE staff is here to help…
Read More2026 NICAR Fellows Announcement
The 2026 NICAR Fellows IRE is proud to sponsor 19 fellowships for journalists attending NICAR26 in Indianapolis, March 5-8. NICAR26 fellowships were available for any journalist; journalists, students and educators of color; Illinois journalism students and early-career journalists; and educators who teach data journalism/investigative reporting. IRE membership for one year and support to offset conference…
Read MoreThe Alabama Solution: Journalists Hope to Inspire More Ethical Prison Reporting
By Victoria Valenzuela, independent journalist 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…
Read More2015 Award Winners
2015 Award Winners Philip Meyer Award Expand First Place “Failure Factories” | Tampa Bay Times Cara Fitzpatrick, Michael LaForgia, Lisa Gartner, Nathaniel Lash and Connie Humburg The team used statistical analysis and linear regression of data from dozens of records requests to document how steady resegregation of Pinellas County schools left black children to fail at…
Read More2016 Award Winners
2016 Award Winners Philip Meyer Award Expand First Place “Doctors & Sex Abuse” | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jeff Ernsthausen, Shawn McIntosh, Danny Robbins, Carrie Teegardin, Ariel Hart, Richard Watkins, Ryon Horne, Lois Norder, Johnny Edwards, and Alan Judd Read the story online The newspaper took data analysis for a story to new levels of sophistication.…
Read More2017 Award Winners
2017 Award Winners Philip Meyer Award Expand First Place “Dangerous Doses” | Chicago Tribune By Sam Roe, Karisa King and Ray Long Dangerous Doses was groundbreaking work that made a remarkable discovery: More than half of the 255 pharmacies that the Chicago Tribune tested failed to warn patients about potentially deadly interactions. To identify the…
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