IRE23 Coaching & Feedback

Industry experts will be in Orlando to provide one-on-one coaching and feedback. These sessions are free, but you must reserve a slot in advance using the instructions below. Mark your calendar, because signups open Monday, June 19, and we expect them to fill quickly.

Sponsored by Napoli Management Group

Show & Tell sessions allow you to share your investigations with colleagues from around the country. Veteran broadcasters will moderate each session. Each slot runs for 15 minutes.

Show & Tell Rules

This is a laboratory – in research, writing, editing, production, on-air presence, and all things broadcast.

• Please don’t go over your total time allotted: 15 minutes.
• Please do not show any tape longer than 8 minutes. The idea is for others to learn from your experience and for you to learn from them.
• Only one story/piece per person at the conference.
• This is a place to grow. People want a fair, honest and civil critique.

Sign up for a time slot

Show & Tell sessions will be held in room Peninsula 2-3. You can book 15 minutes of time with a broadcaster by clicking their name below and selecting an available time slot. (Hurry, these go quickly!)

• Stephen Stock: Thursday, June 22, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
• Meg Christie: Thursday, June 22, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
• Kerry Kavanaugh (en español): Thursday, June 22, 5 – 6 p.m.
• Rick Gevers: Friday, June 23, 9 – 10 a.m.
• Dorothy Tucker: Friday, June 23, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
• Duane Pohlman: Friday, June 23, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
• Rebecca Aguilar y Valezka Gil-Wester (en español): Friday, June 23, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m.

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 the field or in the studio — this is an opportunity you won’t want to miss. Barry has been working with talent at all levels of experience and ability for over 30 years. Kevin Benz is a Poynter Institute leadership fellow and visiting faculty member and has worked extensively with network and local news organizations owned by Fox, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Scripps Howard, Graham Media, and Telemundo among others. Fiona Conway serves in the Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative at ASU’s Cronkite School. Her private practice is devoted to coaching talent at all levels to work in ways that are compelling to watch and also adhere to the highest professional standards.

Please note: Participants should bring recent footage on a flash drive, webpage/online link, or storage drive (Google or Dropbox).

Sign up for one-on-one coaching, mentoring, feedback, FOIA help and more with some of the industry's best journalists. Ask An Expert sessions will be in the Oceans Ballroom Foyer. Feel free to bring any materials you’d like to review.

Book some time with a journalist by clicking their name below and selecting an available time slot. (Hurry, these go quickly!)

• Benét Wilson, Stand Together Fellowships, who can help you with your resume and cover letters, career navigation and networking; Thursday, June 22, 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
• Zachary Fryer-Biggs, Military.com, who can offer advice on covering military communities and building sources in secretive worlds: Thursday, June 22, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
• Journalists from the Marshall Project, who can offer advice on resume/portfolio reviews, mock interviews, data reviews and more: Friday, June 23, 9 – 11:15 a.m.
• Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, who can offer advice on writing longform narratives and covering traumatic events: Friday, June 23, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
• Gunita Singh, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, who can offer advice on public records requests: Friday, June 23, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
• Alfredo Carbajal, independent journalist, who can offer advice on enterprise reporting, covering diverse communities, immigration, leadership development and coaching: Friday, June 23, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
• Joy Mayer, Trusting News, who can offer advice on adding transparency to new stories amd addressing audience perceptions of the news: Saturday, June 24, 9 – 11:15 a.m.
• Diane Sylvester, independent journalist, who can offer advice on finding funds, grant-writing strategies for your investigative reporting project, creating an investigative unit, multimedia career development and story/project development in video, audio and digital formats: Saturday, June 24, 3 – 4 p.m.