IRE Conference Archives

Participate in our first-ever Broadcast Lightning Talks

May 31, 2017

By Nicole Vap, KUSA/9News-Denver Have an investigative trick to share with your friends at IRE? Know someone who should be speaking at the conference but isn’t on a panel? This is the session for you! For the first time, we’re bringing Lightning Talks to the IRE Conference broadcast track. What are Lightning Talks? Five-minute TED…

Sunday sensations: #IRE17 lineup offers incentives to stay

May 31, 2017

Get the most bang for your buck at #IRE17 by attending Sunday morning’s expansive lineup. If you leave Phoenix too soon, you’ll miss: Optimizing a news organization for trust. Jay Rosen of New York University will discuss lessons from De Correspondent’s success in The Netherlands and explore how U.S. newsrooms can learn from it. The…

Broadcasters: Sign up for coaching opportunities in Phoenix

May 26, 2017

We’re offering several opportunities for broadcast journalists to receive individualized and small-group coaching at the IRE Conference in Phoenix. Barry Nash and his team return this year to provide personalized coaching sessions. If you have questions about any aspect of your delivery — your appearance, how you use your voice, how you can perform most effectively in…

5 reasons to join #IRE17 in Phoenix

May 22, 2017

If you’re on the fence about whether to attend the national IRE Conference this year, or need to persuade a reluctant boss to send you, here are five key pitches: Group therapy. When you and your colleagues have been branded “enemies of the American people” by the new president, there’s nothing like recharging your watchdog…

Get a sneak peek at the 2017 IRE Conference schedule

April 13, 2017

We’re busy planning panels, demos and hands-on classes for the 2017 IRE Conference in Phoenix. We’ve posted a partial list of expected sessions, but here are a few highlights: Want to learn how to scrape a website using code? We’ve got a three-hour class for you. No previous experience is required! Pre-register online. A partnership…

Tips for turning your investigation into a longform, multiplatform narrative

July 1, 2016

A serial killer. An Afghan teenager in London. A porn star with an immense knowledge of shell corporations. “Gee,” you might say, “is that the cast of the latest Wes Anderson film?” Actually, these characters are all real people, featured in stories by the speakers at the “Longform Investigative Journalism: Stories on Different Platforms” panel at…

A guide to mastering the investigative interview

June 29, 2016

Learn the rules, then break them. That’s how to excel in the not-so-delicate art of the investigative interview, according to Julian Sher, a producer of the CBC’s The Fifth Estate. Investigative journalists have their strengths: battling with officials for public records, digging through documents, analyzing Excel spreadsheets. But navigating tough interviews? Well, that can be…

Follow the money in state, local elections

June 27, 2016

By Kaitlin Washburn Journalists from the Sunlight Foundation, National Institute on Money in State Politics, and Voice of OC discussed strategies for following the money in state and local elections. Melissa Yeager, a senior staff writer for the Sunlight Foundation, started by giving specific reasons why state and local coverage is so important: There’s more…

A conversation with Vanessa Araiza of WBRC in Birmingham

June 24, 2016

Will Fuller and Vanessa Araiza at the 2016 IRE Conference in New Orleans.Photo: Will Fuller At the 2016 IRE Conference in New Orleans, Knight Scholar Will Fuller sat down with Vanessa Araiza, a weekend anchor and reporter at WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama. Fuller: Why journalism? Araiza: I was never a news junkie. I wanted to…

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