IRE22 Expected Sessions

Expected Sessions for in-person attendees

Here's a look at some of the sessions we're planning for #IRE22 in Denver. Please note that these in-person sessions are preliminary and subject to change.

We'll be highlighting the sessions that will be available to virtual attendees in the coming days.

PUBLIC RECORDS

7 things you didn’t know about getting documents and records
Key records to get for your campus investigation
Documents and data you can investigate inequity in K-12 education
Advanced techniques to get records before you retire
50 records to request right now
No one uses email anymore
Court records are filled with untold stories: A PACER deep dive
Biggest hurdles to accessing state and local public records

ELECTIONS

Tracking dark money in the midterm elections
Watchdogging congressional slush funds
Investigating threats against poll workers and election officials
Investigating congressional financial disclosures and stock trading
Tracking online political ads

EXPOSING SYSTEMIC INEQUITIES, EQUITABLE NEWS GATHERING AND REPORTING

Investigating the racist past of your news organization
Investigating the racist past of your school or university
Reporting on the homicides of Black women and girls
Words matter: Beware harmful language in your writing
Investigating inequality on any beat
Using the Real Housewives franchise as a device to explore interviewing and bias
Equitably covering people with disabilities
Building and maintaining a source diversity tracker
Exposing inequities in housing
Hidden costs and racial inequality in economic development
Public records for justice

MANAGEMENT

Project management that works for reporters AND editors
Teaching your team to manage blowback
Creating successful newsroom collaborations
How to be edited
How To build (or rebuild) an investigative/data team
Newsroom lessons from The Great Resignation
Pre-publication red flags for editors

BUSINESS

Investigating safety problems at private companies
Piercing the veil: Reporting on businesses that want nothing to do with you
Hidden costs and racial inequality in economic development

INTERNATIONAL

Cross-border collaborations in the Middle East and North Africa
Investigating the new organized crime
Investigating the rise of globally connected white supremacy
Dirty money, European banks and Russian organized crime
Investigating international corporate secrecy

ON THE BEAT

Cracking open statehouses
Covering public lands issues
Breaking through the Green Wall: Investigating Customs and Border Protection
Decoding the police narrative
Hot topics to investigate on the energy beat
Data and investigations on the wildfire beat
Tracking defense industry influence, revolving door lobbyists and foreign lobbying
Investigating Title IX issues
Investigating judicial corruption
Investigating police misconduct
Exposing inequities in housing
Accountability journalism on the environment beat
Getting your weed investigation green-lit
It's not just Tuskegee: Investigating stories on race and health
Accountability in gun reporting
Uncovering inequities in education and obstacles to student achievement
Redefining remediation: New approaches for students who start college behind
Sports investigations
Exposing health threats at home, at work and all around us
Reporting on airstrikes and secret sources

REPORTING AND WRITING STRATEGIES

How to transition from daily reporting to writing a book
Breaking into investigative reporting
The first hours of breaking news
Covering trauma
Combating misinformation
Using narrative writing in your investigative journalism
Building trust in how investigative journalism works
Accountability through solutions journalism
Interviewing vulnerable sources
A year in local investigations: Watchdog stories ideas
Career roundtable
Making your story ironclad
Storyboarding your investigation
Under pressure: Real-life breaking news in real-time
So you want to use 2020 Census data?
Student collaborations with media organizations
Visual fact-checking strategies
How to find the best investigative story ideas and pitch them successfully
The art of long-form audio narrative
Finding, cultivating and protecting sources
Using forensic genealogy techniques in your investigation
Rocky Mountain (research) High
Building and maintaining a source diversity tracker

WORK BETTER

My favorite digital journalism tools
How to get your reporting project funded
Finding legal cover as an investigative freelancer
Show-and-tell session for how legal support helped make a story possible
Q&A sessions: “Know Your Rights”
How to pull off a cross-platform data partnership with (relative) ease
Freelancer secrets: How to be get paid for doing good investigative work

TAKING CARE

How to manage the stress and trauma of being a journalist
Do you qualify as an ally?
Having courageous conversations

BROADCAST

Going long (form)
How to get people to talk
Investigating breaking news
Anatomy of an Investigation
Dynamic Duo: What did we do right? What did we do wrong?
The visual perspective
Building the investigative powerhouse
Covering our communities
10 most important lessons
Juggling investigations and GA
Getting inside
Art of accountability
60 ideas in 60 minutes
Sources - how to get ’em, how to keep ’em
Lightning talks
Investigative scripts that sing
Consumer investigations

MASTER CLASSES (pre-registration required)

Registration coming soon!

Outlining and structure: The writer's missing manual
Preparing for the tough interview by roleplaying in the newsroom
Interviewing (broadcast)
Writing the narrative

HANDS-ON DATA WORKSHOPS (pre-registration required)