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Poynter: How IRE Award winner Carl Prine tracked killings in Iraq
This animation from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review came out of Carl Prine’s reporting on U.S. killings of Iraqi children. Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review won an IRE Award this week for his project “Rules of Engagement”, which traced the events of March 6, 2007, when U.S. soldiers shot three unarmed deaf Iraqi boys. Prine, a military veteran, got…
Read MoreAnnouncing 2012 IRE Award winners
Investigations that spanned borders and oceans are among the work honored in the 2012 Investigative Reporters & Editors Awards. An intrepid reporter from Pittsburgh followed a story to Iraq to expose the cover-up of a killing. A team of broadcast journalists withstood heated criticism from the U.S. State Department over their work in Benghazi, Libya.…
Read MoreRun for the IRE board
We are now accepting applications for candidates for the IRE Board of Directors. Below you’ll find an article written for the current IRE Journal by Board member Sarah Cohen explaining more about what it means to serve on IRE’s Board, and details on how to file. If you have questions, you can contact me at mark@ire.org.…
Read MoreU-T San Diego may have offered bargain ad deals to candidates they endorsed.
Tom Shephard, a political consultant for Bob Filner, a Democrat running for mayor of San Diego, noticed a lot of full page newspaper ads attacking his client; ads that he was quoted $8,000 for. “Amita Sharma and Ryann Growchowski, with inewsource and KPBS, audited ads in the San Diego Union-Tribune every day between Labor Day…
Read MoreBotched ATF sting in Milwaukee ensnares brain-damaged man
“ATF agents running an undercover storefront in Milwaukee used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to set up gun and drug deals, paying him in cigarettes, merchandise and money, according to federal documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel.” Read the Journal Sentinel’s full investigation here.
Read MoreDonors behind millions in N.J. political contributions kept secret, analysis finds
“Politicians in New Jersey can receive more money while still keeping the names of their donors secret than those in any other state in the nation, masking the origins of millions of dollars in campaign contributions every year, a Star-Ledger analysis has found.” Read the Star-Ledger’s full investigation here.
Read MoreU-T political ad rates don’t add up
“inewsource and KPBS audited ads in the U-T every day between Labor Day and Election Day 2012 and compared the list with campaign finance records. The results show varied payments for ads, indicating the U-T may have offered bargains to the anti-Filner campaign and to other candidates and issues the newspaper endorsed,” according to the investigation.
Read MoreHow Walmart, ExxonMobil, and Coke Buy Latino Friends in Congress
“Lobbyists and corporations that employ them can’t give gifts to lawmakers—unless they funnel the money through a nonprofit,” according to an investigation by Mother Jones.
Read MoreState still shelling out millions to workers on paid administrative leave
“The Tribune reported in October that the state regularly pays employees not to work, even as it faces wide budget gaps and service cutbacks. The paper’s analysis found that, since 2007, more than 2,000 employees received their usual pay to stay home, amassing $23 million in state wages. More than five months after that report,…
Read MoreCoal-backed studies evoke controversy
“Company-backed reports are pointing out some potential flaws in earlier research. They also are generating questions of their own, in part because industry’s role in funding the work has not been clearly disclosed,” according to an investigation by the Gazette-Mail.
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