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U.S. Department of Government Efficiency wins 2025 Golden Padlock Award
Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) earned the 2025 Golden Padlock Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors.
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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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Hire IRE Get to the bottom of your story and the top of your field. IRE is dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting, which is why we offer several services to help you and your newsroom achieve journalistic excellence. Data Analysis View Research Desk View Custom Training View Terms and Conditions IMPORTANT NOTICE: NICAR’s…
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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 Nebraska Department of Environment & Energy wins 2023 Golden Padlock Award June 24, 2023 | Comments Off on Nebraska Department of Environment & Energy wins 2023 Golden Padlock Award A staunch commitment to blocking the release of internal emails about a growing public health risk has earned Nebraska Department of Environment & Energy…
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Newsletters Center for Community News For its student journalism newsletter, IRE is proud to partner with the University of Vermont’s Center for Community News, which focuses on outstanding college journalism programs providing local news. The Center for Community News provides one of the nation’s leading college reporting newsletters. Now, newsletters will regularly include work from…
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