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IRE Board to elect new officers in Wednesday public meeting
The IRE Board of Directors will elect its new Executive Committee members during a Zoom meeting at 4:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.
Read MoreIRE members elect seven to Board in 2026 election
June 20, 2026 — IRE members elected seven journalists to the Board of Directors at the annual IRE 2026 Conference in Washington, D.C., and two journalists for the contested seats on the Contest Committee. Four incumbents — Kate Howard of Reveal, Andrew Lehren of The City University of New York, Alejandra Cancino of Injustice Watch…
Read More2026 Don Bolles Medal awarded to Julie K. Brown
IRE has awarded the Don Bolles Medal for 2026 to Julie K. Brown for her dogged, indefatigable and fearless investigative reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and the powerful forces that tried to stop it.
Read MoreT. Lee Beeman, Jr. and Allegany County, Maryland win 2026 Golden Padlock Award
Allegany County Attorney T. Lee Beeman, Jr. and Allegany County, Maryland are the winners of the 2026 Golden Padlock Award.
Read MoreIRE 2026 tipsheets & audio
IRE 2026 tipsheets & audio Menu IRE 2026Travel & HotelRegistrationScheduleSponsorsExhibitors & RecruitersAwards LuncheonFellowships & ScholarshipsMaster classesFun things to do in National HarborSign up for the mentor programNational Summit on Local News Preservation 🧨Tipsheets & audio Speakers, please send your session tipsheets and other materials to tipsheets@ire.org. Browse tipsheets by day: Thursday, June 18 Friday, June…
Read MoreDon’t know what to attend at the conference in National Harbor? The IRE staff is here to help!
Adam Rhodes, Training Director & Managing Editor It’s Pride Month so of *course* I’m going to shout out “LGBTQ+ Data Reporting and Visualization,” which is a great session if you want to cover LGTQ+ better but also how to better use key data for your next big investigation. I also really want to shout out…
Read MoreFun things to do in National Harbor
Fun things to do in National Harbor Menu IRE 2026Travel & HotelRegistrationScheduleSponsorsExhibitors & RecruitersAwards LuncheonFellowships & ScholarshipsMaster classesFun things to do in National HarborSign up for the mentor programNational Summit on Local News Preservation 🧨Tipsheets & audio
Read MoreSign up for IRE’s new virtual mentor program
Sign up for IRE’s new virtual mentor program IRE members can now volunteer to mentor fellow journalists on our new online platform, which replaces our former partnership with journalismmentors.com. Only active IRE members will be listed as mentors. (Information from your member profile will become part of your mentor page, as well.) This is a…
Read MoreEducator Resources
Educator Resources A newly expanded online resources for teachers and students Created by the 2025-26 Academic Committee, this page will be your hub for example syllabi, assignments and other resources available only to IRE members. Resources can be used for both college-level courses and newsroom training. Current IRE members can also navigate to archive.ire.org to…
Read MoreFifty years after Don Bolles’ murder, we owe it to him to continue his courage
By Jeremy Duda, Axios On June 2, 1976, Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles was backing out of a parking space at Phoenix’s Clarendon Hotel, where he’d been lured for a fake meeting, when a dynamite bomb exploded under his car. He used his last words to tell paramedics and bystanders who he thought was responsible,…
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