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2025 Don Bolles Medal awarded to RocÃo Gallegos
IRE has awarded the Don Bolles Medal for 2025 to RocÃo 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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Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) earned the 2025 Golden Padlock Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Read MoreProbing 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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Data Analysis For more than 30 years, the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) has helped enhance journalists’ investigative work through collecting, sorting and making sense of data. If you don’t have the resources, time, skills or tools to get it done, NICAR can help. We’ll tackle almost anything, from data conversion to cleaning to…
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Research Desk The IRE Research Desk can save journalists valuable time and provide a reliable foundation of information for enterprise and watchdog stories. Research Desk services Deep backgrounding of individuals via social media, public records and court documents. Detailed dossiers on companies and organizations. Custom spreadsheets built from searching and analyzing court filings and other…
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IRE News IRE expands access to investigative journalism training with first-ever AccessFest October 23, 2023 | Comments Off on IRE expands access to investigative journalism training with first-ever AccessFest IRE hosted the first-ever AccessFest, a virtual-by-design conference with an emphasis on DBEI programming. Our expert panelists led important conversations about diversifying newsrooms, building trust in…
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