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IRE’s Don Bolles Medal awarded posthumously to slain Las Vegas investigative reporter

2023 Don Bolles Medal awarded to Jeff German

IRE’s Don Bolles Medal for 2023 has been awarded posthumously to Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, who was killed in September 2022 in apparent retaliation for his reporting on a local public official. The Don Bolles Medal recognizes investigative journalists who have exhibited extraordinary courage in standing up against intimidation or efforts to…

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Call for entries: 2022 Philip Meyer Award

The deadline for the Philip Meyer Award is Nov. 11, 2022.

It’s once again time to enter the Philip Meyer Journalism Award contest. Entries are now being accepted online, through Nov. 11. Established in 2005, the award was created to honor Philip Meyer’s pioneering efforts to utilize social science research methods to foster better journalism. The contest recognizes stories that incorporate survey research, probabilities, and other social…

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Russian journalists selected for IRE’s Don Bolles Medal

IRE’s Don Bolles Medal for 2022 has been awarded to two Russian investigative journalists whose commitment to exposing corruption by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and his regime led to them being forced to flee their homes to avoid imprisonment.

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IRE announces winners of 2021 Philip Meyer Journalism Award

The Wall Street Journal’s deep dive into TikTok algorithms won first place in the 2021 Philip Meyer Journalism Awards. Other top awards go to newsrooms that used sensors to track air pollution from sugar cane controlled burns and that used machine learning to analyze thousands of police contracts for pricey benefits.

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