Recently added articles from Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal:
Adapting to changing times
Nov 01, 2008; ... I,n these challenging economic times, IRE is focused on keeping our services affordable. Our annual conferences are among the least expensive in the industry. Membership fees are low. And our hands-on, computer-assisted reporting training remains a bargain. We don't do this ...
IRE Board statement on the death of Armando Rodríguez
Nov 01, 2008; ... The members of the Board of Directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors would like to express our regret and indignation over the murder of veteran crime reporter Armando Rodríguez. His complete coverage of more than 1,300 murders in Ciudad Juarez this year provided key information to all ...
MEMBER NEWS
Nov 01, 2008; ... Anas Aremeyaw Anas of The Crusading Guide Newspaper in Ghana was recognized at the seventh annual Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism for his undercover investigation of a cross-border human trafficking syndicate.* Helena Bengtsson, Kevin Bogardus, Anupama Narayanswamy, Joaquin Sapien ...
BLOODBATH ON THE BORDER
Nov 01, 2008; ... Drug violence claims journalists along the U.S.-Mexico boundary Ciudad Juárez has long been known for gutsy and seasoned newspaper reporters who never shrink from a grisly crime scene in that city, just across the border from El Paso, Texas. I sat with a group of them at a ...
FOOD FIGHT
Nov 01, 2008; ... Schools resist mandate of two annual cafeteria inspections The federal government estimates that half of the nation's 60 million public school students eat at least one of their daily meals in a school cafeteria. So it was perhaps with good intentions that Congress in 2004 doubled the ...
FOR SALE: WORKERS
Nov 01, 2008; ... The elusive code that broke open an international human trafficking story was AXAF-963. But finding it took months of bad leads, stale coffee, meetings with scallywags and stakeouts in three provinces. I ended up spending three days in a little house on the Canadian prairie interviewing ...
Collateral damage
Nov 01, 2008; ... Military prescribes drugs at record rate to combat mental and physical injuries LOSING GROUND Facing Homefront Battles Reporter Erin Emery was on the phone from our Colorado Springs bureau. "Are you sitting down?" she asked. "We got the drug data." Moments later, ...
"Shh!"... Suicide, secrets and veterans
Nov 01, 2008; ... CBS uncovers suicide rates that the government tried to hide Imagine being handed an internal e-mail in which a top government official from the agency you're investigating writes the word "Shh!" and then admits that he has life-ordeath information that he's publicly denied ever ...
Military maneuvers
Nov 01, 2008; ... Private housing contracts rife with cost overruns and delays John Jack called me in mid-June, breaking nearly two years of silence required by a federal gag order that barred him from discussing what he knew, even with close friends. Jack, a 37-year-old western Washington ...
Resources
Nov 01, 2008; ... Stories * Story No. 17911: Karen Lee Scrivo, National Journal. "Battling for Benefits" addressed the challenges that women veterans have faced in receiving adequate and gender-specific health care services, including the Women Veterans Health Program Act of 1983 and legislation that ...
Mining for Pulitzer gold: What it takes to win
Nov 01, 2008; ... Mining for Pulitzer gold: What it takes to win "Pulitzer's Gold: Behind the Prize for Public-Service Journalism" By Roy J. Harris Jr. University of Missouri Press, 473 pgs Behind "Pulitzer's Gold," an interesting and instructive new book chronicling nearly 100 years of high-quality, ...
Cleaning EPA's dirty sewers data
Nov 01, 2008; ... You're reading a featured story from Uplink, IRE and NICAR's online publication devoted to computer-assisted reporting - available at http://data.nicar.org/uplink. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the nation's aging and overburdened sanitary sewer systems overflow at ...
ROGUE RIDERS
Nov 01, 2008; ... Video-assisted investigation snares ATVs damaging Minnesota forests Deep in the Minnesota woods, three riders on allterrain vehicles found a great spot for a muddy spin. State conservation officers had tried to keep riders out of this place, but two signs forbidding off-road riding had ...
CREATIVE, EFFECTIVE REQUESTS
Nov 01, 2008; ... Records yield stories from questionable police hires to kids' school lunches From e-mails in governors' mansions to school lunch menus, 2008 was filled with stories made possible thanks to creative use of freedom of information law. A look back at a year's worth of FOI-driven ...