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IRE to host a Google Journalism Fellow in 2014; applications now being accepted
IRE will be hosting a Google Journalism Fellow again next year. This is a great program designed for college students who, as Google puts it, “are passionate about journalism and the role that technology can play in the industry and the pursuit of their craft.” The IRE-based fellow will focus on data journalism. The program comes…
Read MoreIRE/AAJA announce partnership for conferences
The Asian American Journalists Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors are creating a unique opportunity for members of both organizations to take advantage of the training offered at three national events in 2014: IRE’s Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference in Baltimore in late February, IRE’s annual conference in San Francisco in June and the AAJA National…
Read MoreProject uncovers more than 160,000 unreported arson cases
Arson is far more common and dangerous than has been previously reported, a new project by Scripps Howard News Service has found.The yearlong investigation has identified more than 163,000 fires in America that experts agree have a significant chance of being undetected arsons. These fires caused at least 788 deaths, 13,009 injuries and at least…
Read MoreMuzzling the Freedom of Information Act
The federal government is making it increasingly difficult, and prohibitively expensive, for journalists to get files that agencies want to keep secret, despite President Obama’s pledge of transparency, IRE President David Cay Johnston writes for Newsweek. That’s bad news for authors, editors, producers, writers, and publishers, as well as anyone else interested in democratic government.…
Read MoreA FOIA Victory for Sunlight and Spending Transparency
Earlier this week, the Sunlight Foundation filed its very first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. In May 2013, they sent a FOIA request to the General Services Administration (GSA) requesting a copy of all contract notices that had been posted on FedBizOpps.gov since 2000. These notices would allow members of the press, researchers and our developers to…
Read MoreA gilded goodbye for many private college leaders
Many other college presidents across the country are negotiating huge exit packages when they step down, which critics say is emblematic of schools’ unrestrained spending on everything from administrative salaries to elaborate new buildings that drive up the cost of higher education. Lawrence S. Bacow, president emeritus of Tufts, received $1.7 million in 2011 for “end…
Read MoreMMA fighting: Inside look at the brutal sport’s rising popularity and danger
Mixed martial arts, or simply MMA, is cage fighting that mixes punching, kicking and grappling. Likened to human cockfighting and blood sport by detractors, its intoxicating mix of athleticism, intensity and violence delivers something people have been lining up to see since Rome built the Colosseum. Still in its infancy, MMA already has entrenched itself…
Read MoreUS warship faces expanding list of problems
Tony Capaccio for Bloomberg reports that the “U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship lacks the robust communications systems needed to transmit critical data to support facilities ashore, according to an unreleased congressional audit, the latest in a succession of troubles for the $34 billion shipbuilding program.” “The program to build a total of 52 ships in…
Read MoreHealth-care Web site’s lead contractor employs executives from troubled IT company
The lead contractor on the dysfunctional Web site for the Affordable Care Act is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers, documents and interviews show.
Read MoreAddiction Treatment With a Dark Side
In demand in clinics and on the street, ‘Bupe’ can be a savior or a menace.
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