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Toronto Star blogs at the 2013 IRE Conference
IRE board member and Toronto Star investigative reporter Robert Cribb blogged for The Star throughout the 2013 IRE Conference, covering a wide range of topics from panels on international investigations and the state of journalism overseas to helpful mobile phone applications. You can check out his blogs at The Star’s “The World Daily” section: When…
Read MoreGannett creates Tumblr for coverage of the IRE Conference
Gannett sent a stable of journalists to the IRE Conference last week in San Antonio and put many of them to work blogging about reporting tips, tools and ongoing issues in investigative reporting like the situation for journalists in Mexico. Gannett reporters posted writeups about sessions, links to helpful tools and and documents and data…
Read MoreIRE remembers Kelly Guckian
For many of us in this organization we have two families – our personal one and our IRE family. Today I was heartbroken to hear that we’d lost Kelly Guckian from our IRE family. For those of you who didn’t get the pleasure to meet Kelly, she was kind and sincere. She also loved data,…
Read MoreInvestigating breaking news with records, data and compassion
By Zachary Matson and Gwen Girsdansky Some reporters love the opportunity to spend months or even years working on a story, taking the time to develop a stable of sources and marinate in thousands of pages of documents. Sometimes the news is not so cooperative. By its nature, breaking news is fraught with chaos and…
Read MoreA conversation with Lawrence Wright
// Texas-based author Lawrence Wright. Photo: Travis Hartman. Listen to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright discuss turning characters into donkeys, choosing his next project and working at his custom-built desk with his one-of-a-kind index card reporting system. Wright is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the Austin-Texas based author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda…
Read MoreTop Medicare Prescribers Rake In Speaking Fees From Drugmakers
Data obtained and analyzed by ProPublica suggest another factor in the drug Bystolic’s rapid success: Many of the drug’s top prescribers have financial ties to Forest Laboratories, its maker.
Read MoreExtra Extra Roundup: Drug cartels, unjustified shootings, unseen farm worker harassment
Unjustified | Newsday“Report reveals how cop shot unarmed man – and kept his job.” Secret files reveal how pay-to-play works in N.J. | The Star-Ledger“A special report by The Star-Ledger exposes how one politically connected engineering firm parlayed campaign donations into millions of dollars in public contracts, all the while keeping the scheme hidden from the…
Read MoreUnjustified
A Newsday report reveals how a cop shot an unarmed man — and kept his job.
Read MoreSecret files reveal how pay-to-play works in N.J.
A special report by The Star-Ledger exposes how one politically connected engineering firm parlayed campaign donations into millions of dollars in public contracts, all the while keeping the scheme hidden from the public. An analysis of the records, meticulously kept and numbering 137 pages, found Birdsall made more than 1,000 secret campaign contributions worth in…
Read MoreFemale workers face rape, harassment in U.S. agriculture industry
According to a Center for Investigative Reporting article, hundreds of female agricultural workers have complained to the federal government about being raped, assaulted and verbally and physically harassed on the job, while law enforcement has done almost nothing to prosecute potential crimes.
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