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2025 Don Bolles Medal awarded to Rocío Gallegos

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IRE has awarded the Don Bolles Medal for 2025 to Rocío Gallegos, editorial director and co-founder of La Verdad, an investigative news outlet she helped form in 2018 to fight the censorship and control of information that the Mexican government exerted over local news organizations.

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Probing the ethics of controversial brain research

By Audrey Carleton, Bruce Gil, Emily Nadal and Zachary Smith  The four of us met in a classroom in midtown Manhattan in the fall of 2021 —​​ donning masks during the throes of the pandemic. Then final-semester graduate students at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, we…

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Awards Every year IRE holds several different types of contests. Some have cash prizes while others honor dedication to (and against) freedom of information. Contact awards@ire.org with any questions.   Take a look at past award winners here! The 2024 IRE Awards video The video showcases the winners of the IRE Awards presented at the IRE25…

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