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Sign up for an IRE Committee today!
Sign up for an IRE Committee today! Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) is seeking volunteers to serve on several committees. These groups offer ideas and help us improve member services and governance, expand IRE’s reach and fundraising, plan training events and conferences, organize regional meetups and much more. “The IRE Board is making it a…
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Ways to Give Thank you for considering a gift to support IRE and our mission to resource and upskill investigative reporters. Donations of any size make a difference for our members. There are several ways you can make your impact; read more below to discover them. Give online: This is the easiest way to give.…
Read MoreIRE names nonprofit leader as next executive director
IRE is excited to announce the appointment of Jonathan Kealing as its new Executive Director.
Read MoreInvestigating religious groups? These records might help
By Liam Adams, The Tennessean I went out of my way to attend NICAR 2026 for the first time, hoping to unlock a bunch oftrade secrets for accessing records on my beat. As a religion reporter who often encounters legal hurdles for public access to internal info, I ventured up to Indianapolis from Nashville with…
Read MoreIRE Board elects officers for 2026-27
IRE Board of Directors elected 2026-27 executive committee
Read MoreIRE Board to elect new officers in Wednesday public meeting
The IRE Board of Directors will elect its new Executive Committee members during a Zoom meeting at 4:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.
Read MoreIRE members elect seven to Board in 2026 election
June 20, 2026 — IRE members elected seven journalists to the Board of Directors at the annual IRE 2026 Conference in Washington, D.C., and two journalists for the contested seats on the Contest Committee. Four incumbents — Kate Howard of Reveal, Andrew Lehren of The City University of New York, Alejandra Cancino of Injustice Watch…
Read More2026 Don Bolles Medal awarded to Julie K. Brown
IRE has awarded the Don Bolles Medal for 2026 to Julie K. Brown for her dogged, indefatigable and fearless investigative reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and the powerful forces that tried to stop it.
Read MoreT. Lee Beeman, Jr. and Allegany County, Maryland win 2026 Golden Padlock Award
Allegany County Attorney T. Lee Beeman, Jr. and Allegany County, Maryland are the winners of the 2026 Golden Padlock Award.
Read MoreIRE 2026 tipsheets & audio
IRE 2026 tipsheets & audio Menu IRE 2026Travel & HotelRegistrationScheduleSponsorsExhibitors & RecruitersAwards LuncheonFellowships & ScholarshipsMaster classesFun things to do in National HarborSign up for the mentor programNational Summit on Local News Preservation 🧨Tipsheets & audio Speakers, please send your session tipsheets and other materials to tipsheets@ire.org. Browse tipsheets by day: Thursday, June 18 Friday, June…
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