IRE & NICAR conference resources
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- AccessFest 2026
- IRE 2026
- NICAR 2026
- AccessFest 2025
- IRE 2025
- NICAR 2025
- AccessFest 2024
- IRE 2024
- NICAR 2024
- AccessFest 2023
- IRE 2023
- NICAR 2023
- DBEI 2022
- IRE 2022
- NICAR 2022
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AccessFest 2026 (22 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| Access, accommodations, and acceptance: how neurodivergence in the newsroom can benefit everyone | Video |
| Accessing records and data to report on immigration enforcement actions | Slides / Video |
| Art of the business investigation | Slides |
| Connect with skeptical and disengaged audiences ... with data! | Video |
| Covering contaminated sites under Trump | Slides |
| Cultivating sources on the inside | Video |
| Cultural Differences: International journalists' reflections on working with U.S. partners | Video |
| Digging deep into public records – outside the U.S. | Slides / Tipsheet / Video |
| Emotional management for reporters, freelancers and media leaders | Video |
| Filing better FOIAs (getting to documents via people, and vice versa) | Slides / Video |
| Gemini Notebook: 9 Useful New Things Journalists Can Do | Video |
| How IRL events fuel audience growth and accountability journalism | Video |
| How to deliver nuanced, high-impact stories on homelessness | Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| How to get data out of complex documents using AI | Video |
| Investigating the AI data center boom | Video |
| Investigative stories you can feel: Engaging audiences through voices | Slides |
| Join Us! Launch an IRE Chapter at Your School | Video |
| Keynote: Laura Barron-Lopez in conversation with Cindy Galli | Video |
| Making data journalism accessible | Slides / Slides |
| Mining the Epstein files | Video |
| Persuasion 401: The psychology of investigative reporting | Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Uncovering ableism in our reporting | Video |
IRE 2026 (120 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| 30 video ideas that work anywhere | Audio |
| 60 years of frustration and fun: Happy birthday, FOIA! | Slides & Tipsheet / Audio |
| A year in local investigations: Watchdog story ideas | Audio |
| After the cut: Surviving and rebuilding investigative careers after buyouts and layoffs | Tipsheet |
| AI that actually knows what's happening: Live web research for working journalists | Audio |
| AI tools you can use | Audio |
| AMA for high performers | Audio |
| Anatomy of an Investigation | Audio |
| Art of the business investigation | Audio |
| Backgrounding people in an hour | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Beating burnout at its foundation | Audio |
| Behind the PR wall: An off-the-record chat | Tipsheet |
| Behind the story on the accessibility beat | Slides / Audio |
| Best practices in AI-assisted data journalism | Audio |
| Break into prison coverage: How to report on federal prisons, no matter your beat | Audio |
| Breaking news! What now? | Audio |
| Bringing collaborative investigations to life across print and audio | Audio |
| Building blocks of leadership | Audio |
| Building the team: Where everyone wants to work and no one wants to leave | Audio |
| Building trust with sources in a time of fear and retaliation | Audio |
| Career roundtable: How to survive and thrive in your newsroom | Audio |
| Climate disinformation reporting and databases | Slides |
| Concentrated power: Covering the Growing Corporate Influence | Audio |
| Consumer confidential | Audio |
| Covering AI’s environmental impact: How to make a complex story accessible | Audio |
| Covering extreme right influences on your beat | Audio |
| Covering power when power pushes back: lessons from international journalists | Audio |
| Covering state courts: unlocking the legal system | Audio |
| Crafting impactful digital video investigations | Audio |
| Data deluge: The education beat awaits your investigation | Slides / Audio |
| Data visualization for non-designers | Tipsheet |
| Debt collection USA: How to cover surging debt collection lawsuits near you | Audio |
| Deep dive: Empathy as an indispensable part of investigative reporting | Audio |
| Deep dive: The reporter and editor relationship | Audio |
| Deep dive: Two podcasters talk about telling the unforgettable story | Audio |
| Digging into public companies with SEC documents | Audio |
| Digging through the archives | Slides / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Diseases and deadlines: Covering health issues on deadline and beyond | Audio |
| Do try this at home: Tools and tips to investigate Washington from anywhere | Tipsheet / Slides / Audio |
| Don't outsource your instincts: Traditional research skills matter more in the AI era | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Driveway moments: Crafting stories that stop listeners in their tracks | Audio |
| Editing the investigative podcast | Audio |
| Everything you want to know about tracking political influence and money in politics | Audio |
| Evolving narratives in audio storytelling about crime | Audio |
| Fact-checking for reporters | Audio |
| Fields of evidence: Data-driven investigations into pesticide exposure | Audio |
| Filing better FOIAs (getting to documents via people, and vice versa) | Audio |
| Finding the story with federal data: transit crime and safety | Audio |
| Finding the story: Court records | Slides / Tipsheet |
| Finding the story: Covering public utilities | Slides |
| Finding the story: juvenile police records | Slides / Audio |
| FOIA, AI and the future of access to public records | Audio |
| Follow that supply chain! Uncover how questionable products end up on store shelves | Audio |
| Following the money in college sports’ new era | Audio |
| Following the money: Crypto tracing for business and crime reporting | Audio |
| From Boring to blockbuster: Tricks and tools to up your visual game | Slides / Tipsheet / Audio |
| From chaos to clarity: Organizing your reporting and building effective story structure | Slides / Spreadsheet / Audio |
| From classroom to newsroom: Finding your footing after school | Audio |
| Front-line leadership: How newsrooms manage risk, safety, and law enforcement coverage | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Funding your dream investigation project | Audio |
| Get that TPS report (with cover sheet): Easy, no-code AI document finders | Slides & Tipsheet |
| Getting hostile sources to talk | Audio |
| Gossip, group chats and encrypted drives: How to root out non-public records and keep sources safe | Tipsheet / Audio |
| How Did That Make You Feel? and Other Questions Not to Ask: Trauma-Informed Reporting | Audio |
| How IRL events fuel audience growth and accountability journalism | Audio |
| How to find immigration stories in your community | Audio |
| How to make yourself a better writer | Audio |
| How to organize your reporting (and your life) | Google Drive folder |
| I-team 2.0: How to build labs pairing vets and newcomers to fill the void left by newsroom cuts | Audio |
| ICE, HHS, EOIR: Covering the alphabet soup of immigration agencies | Audio |
| Immigration by the numbers - the data sets defining Trump’s deportation agenda | Slides |
| In conversation with Yamiche Alcindor, White House Correspondent for NBC News | Audio |
| Inside the housing crisis: What every reporter needs to know | Audio |
| Investigating civil rights rollbacks | Audio |
| Investigating global health crises that hit home | Audio |
| Investigating rail safety with data and docs | Audio |
| Investigating the aftermath of climate disasters | Audio |
| Investigating the child welfare system | Audio |
| Investigating the impacts of the oil and gas industry | Audio |
| Investigating the privatization of K-12 education | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Investigating the southern U.S. border | Audio |
| Investigating Trump | Audio |
| Investigative podcast series: ambitious storytelling and winning collaborations | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Investigative stories you can feel: Engaging audiences through voices | Audio |
| Is it AI? Verifying video and other materials during breaking news | Audio |
| Legal rights and resources for reporters covering midterm elections | Audio |
| Lightning talks | Audio |
| Make the most of a mentor/mentee relationship Sponsored by San Antonio Assoc of Hispanic Journalists | Tipsheet |
| Making the most of OTT: How to make your investigative content stand out on streaming services | Audio |
| Media law for journalists: Libel & invasion of privacy | Audio |
| Media law for journalists: Newsgathering | Audio |
| Media law in the second Trump Administration | Audio |
| Mining the mountain: Turning massive document dumps into breakthrough stories | Slides / Tipsheet / Audio |
| Mistakes we learned from and you can too! | Audio |
| New tools for this investigative moment | Slides / Audio |
| Reporting on the U.S. military: Beyond the headlines | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Resources for local investigations: Tips for a winning pitch (and what not to do) | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Rethinking the crime beat | Audio |
| Save Our Signs: Reporting on the federal push to rewrite history | Audio |
| Scams and scammers: Investigating the fastest-growing crime in the world | Audio |
| Scroll-stopping investigations: What works in vertical video | Audio |
| Strategies for investigating anonymous companies | Tipsheet |
| Structuring successful partnerships: Professional newsrooms and university investigative programs | Audio |
| Taking it all home | Audio |
| Teaching the investigation: how students can do groundbreaking investigative stories | Audio |
| Teaching the truth: innovations and imperatives in investigative journalism education for 2026 | Audio |
| The 10 things I've learned | Audio |
| The art of the on-camera interview: viral accountability, "non"-ambushes & getting the big get | Audio |
| The evolution of anonymity in the Trump era | Audio |
| The health care beat: following the money, power, and patients | Audio |
| Tips, sources and documents: How to investigate the intersection of religion, politics & culture | Audio |
| Unsung documents | Audio |
| Using AI video tools to keep local government accountable | Audio |
| Using Google Trends data | Audio |
| What do YOU do when diversity, equity & inclusion becomes taboo? | Tipsheet |
| What your editors won't tell you about reporting for print and audio | Audio |
| When video broke open ICE investigations | Audio |
| Working it out: How editors & reporters work together, struggle together & produce great stories | Audio |
| You just got hit by a natural disaster. Here's what to investigate. | Slides / Audio |
| Your investigation reveals a problem. Adding a solutions story shows it doesn't have to be this way. | Tipsheet / Audio |
NICAR 2026 (129 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| 10 things you didn’t know you could do in R | GitHub repo |
| Accessibility basics | Audio / Slides |
| Accessing data on deaths in custody | Slides / Tipsheet / Walkthrough / Walkthrough / Walkthrough / Audio |
| Accessing records to report on immigration enforcement actions | Audio |
| AI agents and pipelines with no-code tools | Slides |
| AI concepts you should know | Audio / Slides / Website |
| AI tools for journalists | Google Drive folder |
| AI tools journalists can use ethically | Audio |
| Analyzing election data with Polars and Python | GitHub repo |
| Analyzing images and videos with AI | Audio / Walkthrough |
| Auditing AI algorithms for bias (and sometimes using AI tools to do so) | Audio / Slides |
| Automating mass scraping with AI | GitHub repo |
| Automating your data collection with dashboards and AI sponsored by Bright Data | Audio |
| Automating your workflows with Github Actions | GitHub repo |
| Becoming acquainted with your city as a data reporter with no beat | Audio |
| Behind the stories: 2025 Philip Meyer Winners | Audio |
| Beyond ironclad: Fact-checking the data story | CoLab notebook |
| Big Local News tools, wares and resources | Audio |
| Building your first SvelteKit data app | GitHub repo |
| Catching the quiet changes: Automating website monitoring for investigative journalism with Visualping | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Challenges with cross-domain collaboration | Tipsheet |
| Cheatsheet: An investigative spreadsheet tool powered by A.I. | Audio |
| Cleaning data with OpenRefine | GitHub repo |
| Clustering and mapping text data for journalism | GitHub repo |
| Coaching ChatGPT to help with coding and data tasks | GitHub repo |
| Connect with skeptical and disengaged audiences ... with data! | Audio |
| Covering growing corporate power, even on deadline | Audio / Slides |
| Custom dataviz with JavaScript 102 | GitHub repo |
| Customizing ggplot for yourself or your organization | GitHub repo |
| Data collection at scale for countries where data is hidden | Audio |
| Data crowd competition: 40 ideas in 40 minutes | Audio / Slides |
| Data in the world of audio | Audio |
| Data investigation frameworks: How to think big picture about what your data will prove | Tipsheet |
| Data journalism for new reporters | Audio |
| Data team starter kit: How to build a data team from the ground up | Audio |
| Data-driven stories ideas for students | Audio / Slides |
| Deep dive: Navigating nonprofit data | Tipsheet |
| Detangling federal lobbying disclosures with LobbyR | GitHub repo |
| Digging into death with CDC Wonder | Tipsheet |
| Easy visualizations for your first data stories | Audio |
| Editing the machine: Fact-checking AI-assisted reporting in the newsroom | Audio |
| Elections 2026: Uncovering influence operations in the U.S. | Audio |
| Enhancing public records work with LLMs | GitHub repo |
| Everyone can be (and should be) a housing reporter | Audio / Slides |
| Everything you never wanted to know about crypto: A primer for data investigations | Audio / CoLab notebook / Slides |
| Extracting data from PDFs using command-line and other advanced tools | GitHub repo |
| Finding a needle in a haystack: How to manage document-heavy investigations | Audio |
| Finding and using undocumented APIs | Website |
| Finding the story: Data to decode deportation | GitHub repo |
| Finding the story: Public health data | Tipsheet |
| Finding the story: Transportation data | Data utility / GitHub repo |
| First PMTiles Map: How to map massive datasets | Walkthrough |
| Five demos for finding things with A.I. outside of chatbots | Audio / GitHub repo / GitHub repo (2) |
| Following the money in college sports’ new era | Audio |
| From chaos to narrative: Using R for story discovery in document collections | GitHub repo |
| From delving into data to door knocking: Finding people behind the numbers and getting them to speak | Audio / Slides |
| From good to great data viz design | Slides |
| From satellites to stories: Leveraging Google Earth Engine to analyze global environmental datasets for local reporting | Tipsheet |
| Fun with hypotheticals: Investigating your dubious data dilemmas in real time | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Fun with shapes: Scripted mapping in R or Python | GitHub repo |
| Google Trends for election coverage | Audio |
| How "Skills" solve the biggest pitfall in using AI for data analysis in Claude Code & OpenAI Codex | GitHub repo |
| How to avoid a midterm meltdown: Tips for covering elections | Audio / Slides |
| How to categorize and clean text data with keywords, LLMs and embeddings: A roundtable | GitHub repo |
| How to do data-driven work in small communities | Audio |
| How to find data | Audio |
| How to get data out of complex documents using AI | Audio |
| How to HMDA: Finding the story in mortgage lending data | GitHub repo |
| How to investigate Telegram | Tipsheet |
| How to scrape an entire social media platform | GitHub repo / Slides |
| How to scrape and analyze sports data in R to tell stories that stand out | Walkthrough |
| How to turn local data into far more useful tools for your newsroom — and your audiences | Audio |
| How to use AI responsibly | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| How we did it: Student-led investigations | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Immigration data and how to make sense of it | Audio |
| Implementing accessibility | Slides |
| Introducing libfec, a faster FEC filing parser | GitHub repo |
| Introducing the new IRE Resource Center | Audio / Slides |
| Introduction to R | GitHub repo |
| Investigating the AI data center boom | Audio |
| Investigating the Epstein Files | Audio |
| Investigating TikTok through data donations | Audio |
| Making public data actually public: Building tools to serve communities | Slides |
| Modern document processing with Natural PDF | Walkthrough |
| Monitoring police accountability laws across the U.S. | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Next-gen crime data: Know your NIBRS! | Audio / Slides / Slides (2) / Slides (3) / Tipsheet |
| Nonprofit data 101 | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Persuasion 401: The psychology of investigative reporting | Audio / Slides |
| Pitching, reporting and planning the investigation | Audio |
| Presents for your future self: Automated workflows for making charts and maps | GitHub repo |
| QGIS 1: Spatial analysis for beginners | GitHub repo |
| QGIS 2: Analyzing geographic data | GitHub repo |
| Quick-hit investigations | Audio |
| R 1: Intro to R and RStudio | Walkthrough |
| R 2: Data analysis and plotting | GitHub repo |
| R 2: Data analysis and plotting (repeat) | GitHub repo |
| R 3: Gathering and cleaning data | GitHub repo |
| R 3: Gathering and cleaning data (repeat) | GitHub repo |
| Reporting on maternal and infant health in turbulent times | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Running large language models locally, on your computer! | GitHub repo |
| Scraping dynamic websites with browser automation tools | Walkthrough |
| Scraping with Python | Slides / Tipsheet |
| SOLD OUT - First LLM Classifier: Practical AI in the newsroom | Walkthrough |
| Spatial analysis in R: 101 | GitHub repo |
| Spatial analysis in R: 201 | GitHub repo |
| Spatial analysis in R: 301 | GitHub repo |
| Stadium pulse: Building sports data visualizations on deadline | GitHub repo |
| Supporting the next generation of journalists through a historic slide in U.S. press freedom | Audio |
| Teaching data journalism in the AI era | Audio |
| The art of networking - and why it's vital | Audio |
| The price of recovery: How to investigate opioid settlement spending | Audio |
| The SLAPP Back Initiative: Building a first-of-its-kind database | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Think spatially: Finding stories in geographic data with geopandas | GitHub repo |
| Tips to investigate influencers and live-streamers | Audio |
| Tracking hidden money, influence and power across borders | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Turn the impossible into the doable: The random sample as a reporting tool | Audio |
| Uncovering wrongdoing with AI: Real-world methods and ethical boundaries | Audio |
| Use our quiz to focus on policy, not politics, in 2026 | Audio / Slides / Website |
| Using data to find sources | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Using data to investigate the global surveillance industry | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Using immigration data to tell stories in your community | GitHub repo |
| Using LLMs to improve your archives | GitHub repo |
| Using open-source intelligence (OSINT) in investigations | Audio |
| Using Python for data analysis | GitHub repo |
| Using Python to scrape basic websites | GitHub repo |
| Using regular expressions | Tipsheet |
| Utilizing new police misconduct and employment databases | Audio / Slides |
| We're managers, ask us anything: career, networking, mentorship | Audio |
| What your newsroom knows (but can’t find) | Audio |
AccessFest 2025 (57 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| 50 free government data sets in 50 minutes | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Acceso de documentos públicos | Video recording |
| Accessibility awareness for charts and interactives | Slides / Video recording |
| Bolster your digital safety: An anti-hacking, anti-doxxing workshop | Slides / Tipsheet / Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Búsqueda y negociación de datos | Video recording |
| Career crunch time: Lightning round | Video recording |
| Coordinating a public records audit in your community | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Covering immigration on any beat | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Covering Indigenous communities better with solutions journalism | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Covering Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities | Video recording |
| Covering the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2025 | Video recording |
| Covering U.S. territories | Video recording |
| Cracking government secrets: Smart FOIA strategies that work | Slides / Video recording |
| Data journalism on a dime: Tools, training and funding opportunities amid budget cuts | Slides / Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Data reporting for smaller newsrooms | Slides / Video recording |
| Digging deep into U.S. public records — even when you don't live there | Video recording |
| Digital accessibility basics | Slides / Video recording |
| Disclosing AI in investigative journalism: What audiences want and how newsrooms can respond | Video recording |
| Easy visualizations for your first data stories | Video recording |
| Fact-checking for reporters | Video recording |
| Finding and using historical documents in investigative stories | Slides / Video recording |
| Funding investigative journalism by and for marginalized communities | Slides / Video recording |
| Gender-sensitive reporting in Asia | Video recording |
| Guiding students through on-campus investigations | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| How AI can make your reporting more (or less) accessible | Slides / Video recording |
| How feature-writing skills can make investigative reporting resonate | Video recording |
| How tax breaks disproportionately harm students of color | Video recording |
| How to background people in an hour | Video recording |
| How to make sure your interviews are accessible | Slides / Video recording |
| How to safeguard DEI in today's climate | Video recording |
| How to stay safe while reporting about ICE | Slides / Tipsheet / Video recording |
| How to track public procurement and international supply chains like a pro | Video recording |
| Intro to dataviz with free tools | Video recording |
| Introduction to data journalism | Slides / Video recording |
| Introduction to multimedia reporting | Slides / Video recording |
| Introduction to web scraping | Python notebook / Slides / Video recording |
| Investigating for-profit health care | Video recording |
| Investigating prison conditions, including deaths behind bars | Video recording |
| Jumpstarting your freelance business | Slides / Video recording |
| Keynote: Wendy Lu and Sara Luterman in conversation | Video recording |
| Lessons learned from a global conversation on mental health in journalism | Slides / Video recording |
| Navigating record requests within the criminal legal system | Video recording |
| Periodismo investigativo para todos los días | Video recording |
| Public health stories you can take to any newsroom | Slides / Video recording |
| Reporting about, for, and with gender-expansive communities | Video recording |
| Resources and tips to practice self-care | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Shining a light on immigration enforcement at the state and local level | Slides / Video recording |
| Special education: Investigating the impacts of federal changes and telling compelling stories | Video recording |
| Steal our story: Digging into private travel for your U.S. House members | Slides / Video recording |
| The internet is forever: How to uncover hidden information | Slides / Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Today's News for Tomorrow: Why we are preserving local news and how you can help | Video recording |
| Using open-source intelligence (OSINT) in investigations | Video recording |
| Utilizing new police misconduct and employment databases | Slides / Tipsheet / Video recording |
| What to do when your story is too long | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| When government data disappears: How to cross-check, preserve, and investigate | Slides / Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Working with sensitive and hard-to-reach sources | Video recording |
| You got something to say? Write a newsletter | Video recording |
IRE 2025 (151 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| 60 opioid settlement (and other public health) stories in 60 minutes! | Audio / Slides |
| A year in local investigations: Watchdog story ideas | Audio / Slides |
| Are you afraid of the AI? | Audio |
| Audio track: Bringing data and public records to life in audio | Audio |
| Audio track: Carving out space for local audio investigations | Audio |
| Audio track: Driveway moments: Crafting stories that stop listeners in their tracks | Audio |
| Audio track: Editing the investigative podcast | Audio / Slides |
| Audio track: Evolving narratives in audio storytelling about crime | Audio |
| Audio track: Investigative stories you can feel: Engaging audience through voices | Audio |
| Audio track: Juggling print and audio investigations (and how to do both, very different things at the same time) | Audio |
| Audio track: Should your story be an audio documentary? Long-form narrative for national audiences | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Audio track: “Getting to yes” with NPR’s Embedded: Writing the perfect podcast pitch | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Automating your beat | Slides |
| Behind the story: "Tráileres, trampa para migrantes” (Cargo trucks: A trap for migrants) | Audio |
| Belonging under fire: In an era of backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts | Audio |
| Beyond the investigation: Managing stress, safety & mental wellness | Tipsheet |
| Beyond the Ivies: Major higher ed stories you shouldn’t miss | Audio |
| Bolstering local reporting through collaborations with large newsrooms | Audio |
| Bridging the newsroom and the classroom: Tackling big projects with student journalists | Audio |
| Broadcast track: "I don't watch TV news" How to get your content in front of the next generation of viewers | Audio |
| Broadcast track: 30 story ideas that work in any market | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Broadcast track: AI AI AI: Three fakes and a real | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Art of the interview | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Collaborating for survival and surviving your collaboration | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Consumer confidential | Audio / Slides |
| Broadcast track: From boring to blockbuster: Tricks and tools to up your visual game | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Broadcast track: Here's the data, where's the story? | Audio |
| Broadcast track: How to get investigative content / I-team on air more without diluting your brand | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Lightning Talks | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Make it memorable! Storytelling in investigations | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Me, myself & I-Team: Uplevel your investigation with or without a photographer | Audio |
| Broadcast track: PIVOT! New market? New station? New role? New challenges. | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Secrets for success: IRE Award winners show how to elevate your investigation | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Broadcast track: Sourcing in this new "no comment" world | Audio |
| Broadcast track: The 10 most important lessons I've learned | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Visual data on deadline | Audio |
| Campus wars: Tools & techniques to investigate the battle over higher ed | Audio / Slides |
| Climate on the record: Crafting investigations with legal documents | Audio |
| Covering corporate behavior: What they do (not what they say) and their big plans for the future | Audio |
| Covering courts: Free tools & strategies to access records and navigate trials | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Covering economic development incentives: What it really means to give companies public dollars | Audio |
| Covering housing authoritatively: How to expose the unseen challenges of renters | Audio |
| Covering immigration on any beat | Audio |
| Covering science in the political spotlight | Audio |
| Covering serial murder, cold cases and missing and unidentified persons | Audio |
| Covering the F.A.A. | Audio / Slides |
| Crowdsourcing data for your next investigation | Audio |
| Data analysis with Python | GitHub repo / Tipsheet |
| Deep dive: Cultivating sources | Audio |
| Deep dive: Dealing with pushback | Audio |
| Deep dive: Two friends on what they’ve learned along the way | Audio |
| Deep dive: Two reporters talk writing | Audio |
| Deep dive: Working as a team: Lessons from a rockstar reporting duo | Audio |
| Demystifying crime data: Learning the tools to effectively evaluate crime trends | Audio |
| Developing curriculum for the next generation of journalists | Audio |
| Disclosing AI: What audiences want and how newsrooms can respond | Slides |
| Document crowd competition: 40 ideas in 40 minutes | Audio / Slides |
| Ethically covering the impact of abortion bans | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Everything you want to know about tracking political influence and money in politics | Audio |
| Exemption redemption: How to overcome public records exemptions | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Extracting public records from secretive government agencies | Audio |
| Federal decisions impacting your K-12 schools | Audio / Slides |
| Filing a better FOIA request | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Finding a needle in a haystack: How to manage document-heavy investigations | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Finding and using historical documents in investigative stories | Audio / Slides |
| Finding stories hidden in your local government’s meeting agenda | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Finding the story: Crime stats | Slides |
| Following the anti-trans federal actions | Audio |
| Freelancers: Create entrepreneurship systems that work for you | Audio / Slides |
| From text to TV (and everything in between): How investigative journalists have adapted over the years | Audio |
| From the outside, looking in: Covering communities and topics you are not part of | Audio |
| Funding the future of investigative journalism | Audio |
| Guiding your students through on-campus investigations | Audio |
| Gun violence reporting in the Trump era | Audio |
| Heat, floods, cold and fire: Covering the intersection of climate change and incarceration | Audio |
| How nonprofit foundations are funding local investigative journalism | Audio / Slides |
| How student journalists are leading real-world investigative reporting across the U.S. | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| How to background people in an hour | Audio |
| How to find data on Indigenous communities and what to do when it doesn't exist | Audio |
| How to investigate digital threats | Audio |
| How to pivot from the newsroom: Reinventing yourself without losing your investigative edge | Audio |
| How to report on anti-competitive behavior | Audio |
| How to use Census data to power your stories — from quick turns to investigations | Slides / Tipsheet |
| How to write character-driven features about climate change and the environment | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Hurricane Katrina: Lessons learned, 20 years later | Audio |
| Income inequality: A force that is tearing our communities apart | Audio / Tipsheet / Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| International collaborations for global investigative impact | Audio |
| International journalists, American press freedom and what's happening now | Audio |
| Investigating climate change | Audio / Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Investigating DOGE | Audio |
| Investigating for-profit health care | Audio / Tipsheet / Tipsheet / Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Investigating hunger | Audio / Slides |
| Investigating the impact of alternative energy | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Investigating the wild world of sports | Audio |
| Investigating Trump | Audio |
| Investigating war crimes in an active, sealed-off war zone | Audio |
| Investigations following breaking news | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Investigative reporting can save the journalism industry | Audio |
| Investigative reporting in rural America | Audio |
| IRE Conversation: Laid off? Find your support system | Tipsheet |
| Leveraging AI to enhance political accountability | Audio |
| Lights! Camera! Investigation! | Audio / Slides |
| Making the most out of your mentorship connection | Tipsheet |
| Managing the investigation | Audio |
| Master class: Under pressure: Real life in real time with breaking news - pre-registered attendees only | Link List / Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Me Too isn’t over: Lessons from both sides of sexual harassment and violence investigations | Audio |
| Navigating interviews on sensitive topics and in challenging settings | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Navigating record requests within the criminal legal system | Audio |
| Organizing your investigation | Audio |
| Pitching a great investigative project | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Policing by algorithm: Covering AI in law enforcement | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Real estate investigations: Covering the government, private sector and private equity sectors | Audio |
| Records for covering education, and overcoming FERPA denials | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Reflecting on 50 years of investigations | Audio |
| Regular expressions: Puzzling out clean data | Tipsheet |
| Reporting on corporate-driven health crises | Audio |
| Reporting on mass shootings, responsibly | Audio |
| Reporting on stigmatized public health issues | Audio |
| Resilience by design: Mindset interventions for journalists | Audio |
| Responsibly and creatively reporting on children and teens | Audio / Tipsheet |
| SHOWCASE: Finding inspiration in the face of change | Audio |
| Showcase: Reporters in peril over the decades | Audio |
| So you think you want to write a book? | Audio |
| Spinning story gold from piles of data and docs | Audio / Slides |
| Staying alive: Inside secrets on how to thrive through job moves, layoffs and newsroom drama | Audio |
| Strategies for investigating offshore companies | Tipsheet |
| Telling the human story behind the investigation: Crafting a stand-alone narrative within a global reporting project | Audio |
| The art of fact-checking | Audio |
| The art of the business investigation | Audio |
| The investigative editor’s toolkit | Audio |
| The lasting effects of extreme weather | Audio |
| The reporter and editor relationship | Audio |
| There’s a disability angle on your beat | Audio |
| Tools and techniques to investigate civilian war casualties from afar | Audio |
| Tracking prices and stock in the wake of economic uncertainty | Audio / Slides |
| Tracking right-wing influencers and movements | Audio |
| Tracking the hundreds of lawsuits filed against the Trump administration | Audio |
| Turn your questions into data with an LLM | Slides |
| Uncovering hope in hard times: How to strengthen your investigation with a solutions mindset | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Understanding your legal rights when reporting on immigration and deportation | Audio |
| Unsung documents | Audio / Slides |
| Using open source tools to localize national data | Audio |
| Using OpenRefine, a power tool for cleaning data | GitHub repo |
| Vetting the great investigative idea | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Web scraping with Python | GitHub repo / Tipsheet |
| What is (and isn't) a good fit for AI-assisted journalism? | Audio |
| What the Real Housewives can teach you about investigative journalism | Audio |
| When government data disappears: How to cross-check, preserve, and investigate | Audio |
| Working with sensitive and hard-to-reach sources | Audio / Slides |
| Working with whistleblowers: Past, present and future | Audio |
| Writing short: Narratives don't have to be long! | Audio / Slide / Tipsheet |
NICAR 2025 (150 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| 15 health datasets in 60 minutes | Audio |
| 2024 Philip Meyer Awards presentation | Audio |
| 50 free government data sets in 50 minutes | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Advanced Python mapping techniques | GitHub repo |
| AI starter pack: JavaScript | GitHub repo |
| AI starter pack: Python | GitHub repo |
| AI starter pack: R | Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| AI tools for your newsroom | Google Drive folder |
| Analyze large datasets in Google Sheets via Google Cloud | Slides |
| Analyzing images and videos with AI | GitHub repo |
| Auditing AI algorithms for bias | Audio / Slides |
| Beginner track: Creating meatier stories: Sourcing, documents and other tools to start investigative reporting | Audio / Slides |
| Beginner track: Easy visualizations for your first data stories | Audio |
| Beginner track: Feed the beast: Integrating data nuggets on deadline | Audio |
| Beginner track: How to find data | Audio |
| Beginner track: How to request data and documents: FOI | Audio / Slides |
| Beginner track: Making your data story ironclad | Audio / Slides |
| Beginner track: New to data journalism? Start here | Audio / Slides |
| Beginner track: Taking it all home | Audio |
| Beginner track: Tools to save you time | Audio / Slides |
| Beginner track: Writing with numbers | Audio |
| Behind the story: 2024 Philip Meyer winners | Audio |
| Behind the story: Recovery Inc. – Using data to investigate the big business of addiction treatment | Audio / Slides |
| Beyond the press release: Uncovering corporate behavior | Slides |
| Big Local News tools, wares and resources | Audio |
| Bringing data journalism to the sports section | GitHub repo |
| Building a culture of accessibility and why it matters | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Building the bridge to advanced data journalism | Audio |
| Building your own Chatbot to find public records | Slides |
| CAR (data journalism) through the decades | Audio |
| Climate change has changed natural disasters; we must change how we prepare | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Coaching ChatGPT to help with coding and data tasks | Slides |
| Covering agriculture & our food supply with data | Audio |
| Covering transportation with data and docs | Audio / Slides |
| Creating simple maps for publication with satellite images and other raster data sources | Slides |
| Critical datasets to know when covering K-12 | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Custom dataviz with JavaScript 101 | Slides |
| Customizing ggplot for yourself or your organization | GitHub repo / Slides |
| Cutting-edge web scraping techniques | GitHub repo |
| Data reporting for smaller newsrooms | Audio / Slides |
| Data stories that don't look or sound like data stories | Audio / Slides |
| Datawrapper hacks | Tipsheet |
| De-mystifying cryptocurrency data: How to find stories on ransoms, scams and betting markets | Slides |
| Debunking sports myths with data | Data |
| Developing an ethical AI policy for your newsroom | Audio / Slides |
| Digging deep: Scraping government websites | Audio |
| Do you really need a map? How to make the most of your data viz | Audio / Slides |
| Don't let go!: The challenges and benefits of continuing your data coverage | Audio |
| dRy - don’t repeat yourself, in R | GitHub repo / Tipsheet |
| Early career journalists' roundtable | Audio |
| Election data to use after the election | Audio / GitHub repo |
| Everything everywhere all at once: Data from around the world to report on global issues | Audio / Slides |
| Everything you need to know about political dark money | Tipsheet |
| Evolving threats to journalists' safety – digital, physical and legal | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Extracting data from complex PDFs using pdfplumber | GitHub repo |
| Extracting data from documents with AI | Audio / Slides |
| Extracting data from the worst PDFs on the planet | GitHub repo |
| Finding narratives in a pile of documents | GitHub repo |
| Finding needles in haystacks with fuzzy matching | Slides |
| Finding the story: Using DNS search for investigative journalism (repeat) | Audio |
| Finding the story: Wildfire data | GitHub repo / Tipsheet |
| First Athena Query: How to analyze hundreds of millions of records in seconds with Amazon Web Services and SQL | Tipsheet |
| First LLM Classifier: Practical AI in the newsroom *pre-registered attendees only | Tipsheet |
| First SvelteKit data app | GitHub repo |
| Follow the money: How to use campaign finance data in your reporting | GitHub repo |
| From code to charts: Create DataWrapper graphics straight from R | GitHub repo |
| Fun with shapes: Scripted mapping in R or Python *pre-registered attendees only | GitHub repo |
| Get AI to read all that stuff with semantic search | Audio |
| Go big with GitHub Actions: Scale up your newsroom’s data pipelines *pre-registered attendees only | Tipsheet |
| Going deeper with Census microdata: IPUMS is your friend | Audio / Slides |
| Google Trends for journalism | Audio |
| Have some fun with Spotify data | Slides |
| How economic development incentives impact public budgets | Tipsheet |
| How to adjust for inflation | Tipsheet |
| How to approach an investigative data question: How many rats are in the Rainforest Cafe? | Audio / Tipsheet |
| How to crowdsource data for your next big story | Audio / Tipsheet |
| How to investigate special-interest influence on your Congressional delegation | Audio / Slides |
| How to run visual investigations | Audio |
| How to start investigating your college or university with data and records | Audio / Slides |
| How to turn your investigation or data findings into narrative audio | Audio / Slides |
| How to use CensusDis, the friendliest Python API for U.S. Census data | GitHub repo |
| Introduction to R *pre-registered attendees only | GitHub repo |
| Introduction to the command line (Macs) | GitHub repo |
| Investigating who's behind that website | Audio / GitHub repo |
| Learning a new beat in data | Audio |
| Lessons learned from inclusive collaborations to inform Global Majority-led cross-border investigations | Audio |
| Lightning Talks ⚡️ | Audio |
| Making publishable graphics in R Studio | GitHub repo |
| Managing investigators: Leading those born to challenge authority | Audio |
| Media lawyer Q&A | Audio |
| Mentor program breakfast (invitation-only event) | Audio |
| No comment? What to do when government agencies won't answer your questions about their data | Audio |
| Passive scraping for social media | Audio / GitHub repo |
| PDF next steps: Extracting data using command-line and other tools | GitHub repo |
| Philip Meyer Award reception | Audio |
| Policing the police with data | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Practical, ethical use of AI in the newsroom: Research, reporting and fact-checking | Audio |
| Practical, ethical use of AI in the newsroom: Translation, audio processing and chatbots | Audio |
| Public records for social justice: Uncovering inequity in your community through FOI | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Python for data analysis | GitHub repo / Tipsheet |
| QGIS 1: Spatial analysis for beginners | GitHub repo / Tipsheet |
| QGIS 2: Analyzing geographic data | GitHub repo / Tipsheet |
| Quantifying history | Audio / Slides |
| Quick-hit investigations | Audio |
| R 1: Intro to R and RStudio | GitHub repo |
| R 1: Intro to R and RStudio (repeat) | GitHub repo |
| R 2: Data analysis and plotting | GitHub repo |
| R 2: Data analysis and plotting (repeat) | GitHub repo |
| R 3: Gathering and cleaning data | GitHub repo |
| R 3: Gathering and cleaning data (repeat) | GitHub repo |
| Reporting in underserved communities with hard-to-get data | Audio |
| Reporting on America's prison and jail death crisis | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Scraping without programming | Slides |
| Spatial analysis in R: 101 | GitHub repo |
| Spatial analysis in R: 201 | GitHub repo |
| Spatial analysis in R: 301 | GitHub repo |
| Spatial analysis using geographical Census data | GitHub repo |
| Spreading data wisdom through mentoring | Slides |
| Surveys 101: A journalist’s guide to writing with polling data | Audio / Slides / Tipsheet |
| Swapping LexisNexis for free tools | Audio / Slides |
| Teaching lessons from the JedR Academy | GitHub repo |
| Technical tech regulators: The data we use to regulate the most powerful companies in the world | Audio |
| The 411 on 311: How to use calls-for-service data in your daily reporting | Google Drive folder / Tipsheet |
| The chaos in college sports: What all students should know | Audio / Slides |
| The data sonification toolkit: Learn to make your data sing | GitHub repo / Tipsheet |
| The data you need to report on DOGE | GitHub repo |
| The internet was never written in ink | Audio |
| The wonders of CDC WONDER: Analyzing birth and death data | Tipsheet |
| Tidycensus will convince you to learn R | GitHub repo / Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Tips for successful public records requests | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Turning police disciplinary files into data and stories | Audio |
| Unlocking interactive maps for newsrooms | GitHub repo / Slides |
| Using AI tools in the newsroom *pre-registered attendees only | GitHub repo |
| Using data and docs to fact-check immigration rhetoric | Audio / Tipsheet / Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Using data to report on the housing crisis in your community | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Using IF statements and VLOOKUP in Sheets | Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Using open-source intelligence (OSINT) in investigations | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Using open-source tools to investigate public transit | GitHub repo |
| Using Python to analyze map data | GitHub repo |
| Using Python to scrape websites | GitHub repo |
| Watching the weather with Github Actions | GitHub repo |
| Web scraping with Python *pre-registered attendees only | GitHub repo |
| What's involved in data editing? | Audio |
| What's new in the world of LLMs | Slides |
| When databases don’t exist | Audio |
| When Excel doesn’t excel: Simple Python for problem spreadsheets | Tipsheet |
| Which coding language to use and why | Audio / Slides |
| Workshop your public records request | Audio |
| Yes, you really CAN get high-res satellite images for free | Audio / Slides |
| Yes, you still need to calculate an accuracy rate for your AI workflow | Tipsheet |
AccessFest 2024 (51 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| 10 international financial crimes journalists should understand | Video recording |
| 2024 elections: Mis- and disinformation impacting Latino and Spanish-speaking communities this election cycle, and how to fact-check it | Video recording |
| 36 chapters and no nut graph: A case study in merging investigative and narrative | Video recording |
| 50 FOIAs in 50 minutes | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Accessibility basics you can start right now | Slides / Video recording |
| Amplifying immigrant voices: How to cover immigrants, not just immigration | Slides / Slides / Slides / Video recording |
| Authenticity in investigations: Covering your own communities | Slides / Video recording |
| Backgrounding like a boss | Video recording |
| Beyond stress: What journalists should know about burnout (and how to reconcile the betrayals that cause it) | Slides / Video recording |
| Bridging the inclusivity values gap: From colleges banning DEI to newsrooms trying to embrace it | Video recording |
| Career talk: How students can set themselves up to enter the industry | Video recording |
| Centering people in your political reporting | Video recording |
| Cinco razones (y media) para lanzarse a aprender Python | Video recording |
| Covering Indigenous peoples | Video recording |
| Covering polarizing issues in de-polarizing ways | Slides / Video recording |
| Covering the reproductive health beat | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| COVID reporting still matters: The inaccuracy of "post-pandemic" frames | Video recording |
| Cracking the freelancing code | Video recording |
| Crash course in gender inclusivity for data reporting | Video recording |
| Data tools for covering gun violence, police use of force, and the political opinions of incarcerated people | Slides / Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Digging deep into U.S. public records — even when you don't live there | Video recording |
| Disability is part of every beat | Video recording |
| Earn trust with diverse audiences by investing IRL | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Filing a better FOIA request | Video recording |
| Getting stories back to people in their language | Video recording |
| How to report on communities that aren't your own | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Intro to Python | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Introduction to AI & Coaching ChatGPT to help you with your coding and data tasks | Video recording |
| Keynote: Tristan Ahtone in conversation with Mary Hudetz | Video recording |
| Managing trauma and troubles in the newsroom | Video recording |
| Obstacles with international investigations | Video recording |
| Organizing your story: Transforming chaos into clarity | Video recording |
| Overlooked stories on the education beat | Video recording |
| Reporting on coordinated rightwing extremism | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Reporting on discrimination and hate in K-12 schools | Slides / Video recording |
| Reporting on the realities of incarceration | Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Scraping TikTok and Instagram videos for investigative reporting | Slides / Video recording |
| Stories, sources and data to solve the housing crisis | Slides / Video recording |
| Student-led investigations | Video recording |
| Super awesome tools demo: Fostering inclusive journalism and capturing dimensions of data | Slides / Slides / Video recording |
| Supporting journalists with disabilities and improving disability coverage | Video recording |
| The ethics of using AI in the newsroom | Video recording |
| The year of harmful policies in higher education | Video recording |
| Thriving as a freelance journalist | Video recording |
| Unleashing the power of data in investigations to expose political influence operations | Video recording |
| Unsung documents | Slides / Video recording |
| Using open records laws to improve your investigative podcasts | Video recording |
| Using R to power quick turn stories | Video recording |
| Welcome to AF24! Overview and networking event | Video recording |
| Writing tips you'll use every day | Video recording |
| Your hiring process doesn’t have to suck | Video recording |
IRE 2024 (148 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| 10 international financial crimes journalists should understand | Audio |
| 36 chapters and no nut graph: A case study in merging investigative and narrative | Audio |
| 50 FOIAs in 50 minutes | Slides / Audio |
| A matter of life and death: How to investigate healthcare failures | Tipsheet / Audio |
| A world of possibilities: Lassoing satellite data for global and local investigations | Slides / Audio |
| Accessing courts in high-profile cases | Audio |
| AI and automation for the local beat | Audio |
| Authenticity in investigations: Covering your own communities | Audio |
| Beginning your investigative career | Audio |
| Behind the story: Driving while Black | Audio |
| Behind the story: Misplaced Trust | Audio |
| Best practices on navigating disinformation and online abuse in an election year | Audio |
| Bill tracker: How to keep up on state legislation regarding any beat | Tipsheet |
| Breaking into freelancing | Audio |
| Bridging the newsroom and the classroom: Tackling big projects with student journalists | Audio |
| Broadcast Track show & tell: On-your-side consumer investigations | Tipsheet |
| Broadcast Track: 50 ideas in 50 minutes | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Anatomy of an investigation | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Breaking down breaking news: Days, weeks and months of investigations | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Everything you need to know to start collaborating right now | Slides / Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Finding the data on marginalized communities, uncovering the story and getting it on air | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: From boring to blockbuster: Tricks and tools to make your investigative stories sing | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Juggling investigations and GA | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Level-up your investigation | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Lightning Talks | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Make me care! Writing scripts that hook viewers and keep them invested | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Making data and documents come alive on screen | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Making the jump: How to get the investigative title (or do the job without one!) | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Sources - How to get em, how to keep em | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: The 10 most important lessons I've learned | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: The art of the interview | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Thinking outside the (TV) box: Tips to reach audiences on platforms beyond broadcast | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Working for you and on your side | Audio |
| Broadcast Track: Wrangling the big story | Audio |
| Continuing accountability on the redistricting beat | Audio |
| Covering elections by putting the community first | Audio |
| Covering hot-button issues through an election lens | Audio |
| Covering public stadium boondoggles | Slides / Audio |
| Cracking the code: How to read local government budgets | Slides |
| Data analysis with Python | GitHub repository |
| Deep Dive: Cultivating sources on the inside | Audio |
| Deep Dive: How to dig on deadline | Audio |
| Deep Dive: Two reporters talking writing | Audio |
| Deep Dive: Vetting story ideas | Audio |
| Deep Dive: Working with people who have been harmed | Audio |
| Developing curriculum for the next generation of journalists | Audio |
| Digging into corporate behavior: Tracking and reporting on business influence | Tipsheet / Tipsheet (2) / Slides / Audio |
| Digging into private companies | Slides |
| Diving into historical displacement and denial of housing rights within communities of color | Audio |
| Don't get played: How to investigate gambling | Audio |
| Engagement experiments for investigations | Audio |
| Ethics of reporting in Indigenous communities | Audio |
| Facts, fallacies and frames: Getting trans issues right in the 2024 elections | Audio |
| Filing a better FOIA request | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Finding fresh ways to write about guns and other tough topics | Tipsheet / Slides / Audio |
| Finding the right solutions angle for your investigation | Tipsheet / Slides / Audio |
| Finding the story: Campaign finance data | Audio |
| Finding the story: Taking a deeper dive into the housing and homelessness crisis | Slides / Tipsheet |
| Following the money behind the climate crisis | Audio |
| FYI Forum: How to help your audience avoid news fatigue | Audio |
| FYI Forum: The New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship | Audio |
| FYI Forum: Uncovering secret Canada: How our FOI and transparency project has made public records more accessible | Audio |
| Gender & reproductive rights track: Covering the local reproductive health beat | Audio |
| Gender & reproductive rights track: Race and reproductive justice reporting | Audio |
| Gender & reproductive rights track: The gender-targeted disinformation machine | Audio |
| Go FOIA yourself | Audio |
| Google Trends for election coverage | Audio |
| Holding your public officials accountable | Audio |
| How AI can elevate your newsroom | Audio |
| How can we prepare for AI whistleblowers? | Audio |
| How journalists are using investigative tools in perilous press environments | Audio |
| How military and veterans coverage touches everything from health care to education to housing | Audio |
| How to background people in an hour | Audio |
| How to connect and earn trust with communities we've failed | Audio |
| How to cover protests safely and accurately | Audio |
| How to deal with AI audio deepfakes in election campaigns | Audio |
| How to develop, pitch, and write books based on your investigative reporting | Audio |
| How to get funding for investigative projects | Tipsheet / Audio |
| How to investigate charities 101 | Audio |
| How to make a great story into a great narrative podcast | Audio |
| How to make investigative reporting about non-English speaking communities more accessible to them | Tipsheet / Slides / Audio |
| How to report from and about a country that doesn't want you there: Investigating Russia | Audio |
| How to report on AI copyright cases | Audio |
| How to report on what goes on in prisons and jails | Audio |
| How to turn your investigation into beautiful audio narrative | Slides / Tipsheet / Slides / Audio |
| Investigating campus sexual assault | Audio |
| Investigating health insurance | Audio |
| Investigating hospitals | Slides / Tipsheet / Audio |
| Investigating research fraud and errors: Tips and tools to help you get started | Audio |
| Investigating scams | Audio |
| Investigating scientific issues | Audio |
| Investigating sheriffs | Audio |
| Investigating the groups organizing anti-trans action and legislation | Audio |
| Investigating the public relations machine within policing | Audio |
| Investigating toxic chemicals | Slides / Audio |
| Investigating trash | Audio |
| Investigating unemployment | Audio |
| Investigating your state's guardianship system: From identifying red flags to reporting with empathy | Audio |
| Investigative project collaborations with early-career reporters | Audio |
| Investigative story survival guide: How to manage your most ambitious projects | Tipsheet / Audio |
| IRE Board of Director candidate speeches & meet and greet | Audio |
| Keynote: Fireside chat with Ava DuVernay | Audio |
| Leadership: Trauma and toxicity in the newsroom | Audio |
| Legal resources for reporters covering campaigns and elections | Audio |
| Lessons learned from election investigations around the world | Audio |
| Lifting the curtain on the child welfare system | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Lightning talks: Trans stories edition | Audio |
| Local investigations with big impact | Tipsheet / Tipsheet (2) / Audio |
| Master Class: Managing investigators: Leading those born to challenge authority - pre-registered attendees only | Slides / Tipsheet |
| Open mic: The future of TV news - how to adapt | Slides |
| Politicization of children and families: Enforcement and consequences of anti-trans policies | Audio |
| R 1: Intro to R and RStudio | GitHub repository |
| R 2: Data analysis and plotting | GitHub repository / Slides |
| Records requests to make on the education beat | Audio |
| Reporting on coordinated rightwing extremism | Audio |
| Reporting on educator sexual misconduct | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Reporting on the judiciary | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Reporting tips and tools for covering immigration in your community | Audio |
| Revealed! How Knight Foundation is supporting newsrooms this election cycle | Audio |
| Safer sidelines for athletes in your state | Audio |
| Sharing skillsets of leading investigative editors: A new partnership from the Cronkite School and IRE | Audio |
| Should I learn to code? | Tipsheet |
| Skies to subways, covering the transportation beat | Audio |
| Sleeping well: How investigative journalists can make even the most sensitive and complicated stories ironclad | Audio |
| Spatial investigations and reporting at The New York Times | Audio |
| Starting an investigative unit at smaller news organizations | Audio |
| State government reporting that matters | Audio |
| Taking it all home: Putting the conference and your membership to work | Audio |
| The art of business investigations | Audio |
| The art of interviewing | Tipsheet / Audio |
| The big con: How to recognize, investigate and expose financial fraud | Audio |
| The final fact check | Audio |
| The stories you're missing in your higher education coverage | Audio |
| The year in international investigations | Audio |
| Tools for FOIA and large project organization | Tipsheet / Slides / Audio |
| Top 10 stories in religion you should be following | Audio |
| Unsung documents | Slides / Audio |
| Using data and docs to investigate the gun industry | Audio |
| Using data to investigate Russia from exile | Audio |
| Using public records to investigate political candidates for the 2024 election | Tipsheet / Slides |
| Using the Census to tell a story | Slides / Tipsheet |
| Using your newsroom union to protect your journalism | Slides / Audio |
| Vetting investigations to reduce legal risk | Audio |
| Web scraping with Python - pre-registered attendees only | GitHub repository |
| What the Real Housewives can teach you about investigative journalism | Audio |
| What to do when you become the subject | Audio |
| When data is not available | Slides / Audio |
| Why do U.S. newsrooms hire so few investigative reporters of color? | Audio |
NICAR 2024 (119 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| A world of possibilities: Lassoing satellite data for global and local investigations | Slides / Audio |
| AI 101: AI-driven tools, tips and tricks to empower your data journalism | Tipsheet / Audio |
| AI 101: Coaching ChatGPT to help you with your coding and data tasks | Slides |
| AI 202: Cooking with generative AI | Slides / Audio |
| AI 303: Case studies | Audio |
| An introduction to gathering data with APIs | Slides |
| Auditing algorithms and AI for bias | Audio |
| Automating your beat: Unredact documents, monitor websites, file better FOIAs and much more with the MuckRock portfolio | Audio |
| Backgrounding local elections: The questions, documents, and data the public needs | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Behind the story: 2023 Philip Meyer winners | Audio |
| Beyond percentage change: The next formula every reporter should know | GitHub repo |
| Bringing data journalism to the sports section | GitHub repo |
| Building a sustainable data journalism infrastructure | Audio |
| Building and learning a new beat in data | Audio |
| Covering disparities in higher education | Slides / Audio |
| Covering state-based and local courts – transparency, tips, and tricks | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Crisis reporting with remotely sensed data | Slides / Audio |
| Data and accountability on the climate change beat | Slides / Tipsheet / Audio |
| Data around the world for investigations everywhere | Audio |
| Data education beyond the tools | Audio |
| Data storytelling to empower migrant communities | Audio |
| Data wrangling with code | GitHub repo |
| Datasette: An ecosystem of tools for exploring data and collaborating on data projects | GitHub repo |
| Develop and test hypotheses on a risk assessment algorithm | GitHub repo |
| Elevate your graphics with Illustrator and Inkscape | Audio |
| Encryption and risk-reduction practices | Slides / Slides / Tipsheet / Audio |
| Enhancing your news stories with Census Bureau data | Audio |
| Finding and telling stories for the communities you cover | Audio |
| Finding and using data about LGBTQ+ people | Audio |
| Finding needles in haystacks with fuzzy matching | Slides |
| Finding the story in criminal justice data: Crime, police, prisons and more | Audio |
| Finding the story: Digging into IRS data on nonprofits | Slides / Tipsheet / Data files |
| Finding the story: Immigration data | Slides / Tipsheet |
| Finding the story: Inflation data | Tipsheet / Spreadsheet |
| Finding the story: Taking a deeper dive into the housing and homelessness crisis | Slides / Tipsheet |
| Finding the story: Working with data from Grist's Land Grab University 2.0 investigation | GitHub repo |
| Fire, smoke and prevention: Using data to investigate the wildfire crisis | Slides / Tipsheet / Audio |
| Fireside chat with Hilke Schellmann and Meredith Broussard | Tipsheet / Audio |
| First automated chart: Taking Datawrapper to the moon | Tutorial |
| First Python notebook: Data analysis on deadline | Tutorial |
| First Visual Story: Launch a data-driven website | Tutorial |
| Getting hands-on with AI tools for journalists | Slides / Tipsheet |
| Google Sheets: Importing and data prep | Slides |
| Google Trends for election coverage | Audio |
| How to analyze freely available real estate data to tell your community's story | Slides |
| How to do data- and document-driven investigations in small and/or underserved newsrooms | Audio |
| How to keep your finger on the pulse of foreign influence | Audio |
| How to make data viz with (almost) every tool | Audio |
| How to track opioid settlement funds in your state | Slides / Audio |
| How your newsroom can build a self-hosted map stack | GitHub repo |
| Introduction to R | GitHub repo |
| Introduction to the command line (Macs) (repeat) | GitHub repo |
| Land Grab University 2.0 investigation: How we did it | Audio |
| Large-scale scraping projects: Best practices for doing it legally and ethically | Slides / Audio |
| Let's make mapping better | GitHub repo |
| Leveraging local newsrooms to uncover hidden police accountability stories | Audio |
| Lifting a veil on local campaign finance reports | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Lightning Talks ⚡️ | Audio |
| Making your stories ironclad | Audio |
| Mapping disparities in the news with QGIS | GitHub repo |
| Microdata: Asking deeper questions | Audio |
| Navigating an ever-changing industry as a freelancer | Audio |
| Navigating FOIA | Audio |
| Navigating press freedom: A conversation about journalists' safety | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Navigating the world of nonprofit data | Slides / Tipsheet / Audio |
| Obtaining public records and data to power your 2024 election reporting | Audio |
| PDF next steps: Extracting data using command-line and other tools | GitHub repo |
| Public records 101: Great records for investigating higher education | Slides / Tipsheet / Audio |
| Python: Extracting data from complex PDFs using pdfplumber | GitHub repo |
| QGIS 1: Spatial analysis for beginners | Tutorial |
| QGIS 2: Analyzing geographic data | Tutorial |
| Quick hit investigations for everyone | Slides |
| R 1: Intro to R and RStudio | GitHub repo |
| R 1: Intro to R and RStudio (repeat) | GitHub repo |
| R 2: Data analysis and plotting | GitHub repo / Slides |
| R 2: Data analysis and plotting (repeat) | GitHub repo |
| R 3: Gathering and cleaning data | GitHub repo |
| R 3: Gathering and cleaning data (repeat) | GitHub repo |
| Reconsidering data on mass shootings | Audio |
| Regular expressions: Puzzling out clean data | GitHub repo |
| Reporting on water with data (what's in your water and how much water you have) | Audio |
| Reporting on zoning: The invisible laws that shape our urban inequality | Slides / Audio |
| Reshaping data using Google Sheets and Google Colab | Slides |
| Scraping TikTok and Instagram videos for investigative reporting | Audio |
| Secrets over seniors: Exposing hidden senior living injuries | Slides / Audio |
| Securing your social media accounts with the magic of browser extension automations | Audio |
| So you want to report on racial disparities | Slides / Audio |
| Spatial analysis in R | GitHub repo |
| Starting, growing and maintaining a data desk at student publications | Audio |
| Survival guide for entering the journalism industry | Audio |
| Text analysis in different languages for investigative journalism | Slides / Audio |
| The 411 on 311: How to use 311 data to report on your community | Tipsheet |
| The new OSINT investigative wave | Audio |
| The power of knowing your (data's) weaknesses | Audio |
| Tidycensus will convince you to learn R | GitHub repo |
| Trans data: How we can do better | Audio |
| TV for data reporters | Tipsheet |
| Uncovering shadow campaigns in 2024 elections | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Undercovered stories about trans communities | Audio |
| Understanding the impact of Asian American voters: From data to stories | Slides / Audio |
| Unleashing the power of data in investigations to expose political influence operations | Audio |
| Updates in FOIA litigation | Audio |
| Using AI tools for data journalism | Audio |
| Using CAPTCHA-solving services to automate CAPTCHA solutions in web scraping | Code |
| Using data in government and policy reporting | Slides / Slides / Audio |
| Using geospatial and tabular data for impactful climate reporting and visualization | Audio |
| Using historical archives: Reporting on accountability and public transparency | Tipsheet |
| Using OpenRefine to clean your data | Tipsheet |
| Using Python for data analysis | GitHub repo |
| Using Python to build data pipelines you can share with your newsroom | GitHub repo |
| Using Python to scrape websites | GitHub repo |
| Using Shot-Scraper to grab data from difficult sites | GitHub repo |
| Visual investigations | Slides / Audio |
| Weathering the stormy news business | Audio |
| Web APIs in R with httr2 | Audio |
| Web scraping in R with rvest | GitHub repo |
| Web scraping with Python | GitHub repo |
| Who's behind that website? | Audio |
| Writing with numbers | Slides / Tipsheet |
AccessFest 2023 (13 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| 10 easy ways to make your newsroom more equitable | Video recording |
| Elevating Indigenous voices and perspectives in the media | Slides |
| Finding your voice: Speaking up for yourself and others | Video recording / Tipsheet |
| How to get your reporting project funded | Slides / Slides / Slides |
| How to operationalize mental health and wellbeing in the newsroom | Video recording |
| Keynote: A conversation with Maria Hinojosa | Video recording |
| Leading with emotional intelligence | Video recording / Tipsheet |
| Rethinking how journalists cover gender-based violence and sexual assault | Tipsheet |
| Separate and unequal: 5 must-have stories from the K-12 education beat | Slides |
| Successful project management for partnerships & collaborations | Tipsheet |
| Thinking about building data skills? Tips for getting started | Tipsheet |
| Welcome & networking | Tipsheet |
| Working with sources who are reluctant to share their stories | Slides |
IRE 2023 (117 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| A year in local investigations: Watchdog story ideas | Audio |
| Acceso a la información pública | Audio |
| Best practices for collaborations and partnerships | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Beyond the box score: Finding the story in college athletics data | Slides |
| Breaking down the investigative narrative | Slides & tipsheets / Audio |
| Breaking into audio & video: What’s a working reporter to do? | Audio |
| Bringing it all home | Slides / Audio |
| Broadcast track: 60 ideas in 60 minutes | Slides / Audio |
| Broadcast track: Anatomy of an investigation: Executing stories from start to finish | Slides / Audio |
| Broadcast track: Art of the interview: Getting sensitive sources to talk | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Behind the badge, beyond the bench | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Building the investigative powerhouse and landing a job there | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Covering the inevitable: A mass shooting in my market | Audio |
| Broadcast track: From boring to blockbuster: Visualizing the non-visual investigation | Slides / Audio |
| Broadcast track: Hindsight's 20/20 - The biggest lessons we’ve learned | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Investigating breaking news | Slides / Audio |
| Broadcast track: Investigative scripts that sing | Tipsheets (2) / Audio |
| Broadcast track: Lightning talks | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Right on the money: Consumer investigations that count | Slides / Audio |
| Broadcast track: Sources: How to get 'em, how to keep 'em | Audio |
| Broadcast track: Teamwork makes the dream work: Collaboration for increased exposure | Audio |
| Broadcast track: The art of accountability | Audio |
| Broadcast track: The journalism juggle: Balancing daily and investigative reporting | Audio |
| Business track: Finding hidden costs and racial inequality in economic development | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Business track: How to use public documents to cut through corporate PR spin, dig into corporate misconduct and reveal undue big business influence | Audio |
| Business track: Investigating private equity’s impact on the healthcare system | Audio |
| College sports finances: Where the money goes, if it’s not in athlete pockets | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Covering Florida: Where to begin? | Tipsheets / Audio |
| Covering housing inequities: Lessons learned | Tipsheet / Slides / Audio |
| Covering Indigenous communities: Investigating untold histories | Audio |
| Creating a newsroom FOI coach/evangelist | Slides & tipsheets |
| Detrás de la historia | Audio |
| Digging deep into anti-trans legislation, locally and nationally | Audio |
| Documentos públicos que debes solicitar ahora mismo | Slides & spreadsheet / Audio |
| Don't be afraid of the command line (Macs) | GitHub repo |
| Dynamic duo: Documents and data | Slides / Audio |
| Early-career roundtable | Audio |
| Editors roundtable: The next generation of investigative journalists | Audio |
| Elections track: 2024 is already here. Buckle in. | Audio |
| Extracting data from PDFs | Slides |
| Financing your investigation | Audio |
| Finding balance: How to manage stress at work and home | Tipsheet |
| Finding the story: Campaign finance data | Tipsheet |
| Finding the story: Crime stats | Tipsheet |
| Finding the story: Police stop data | GitHub repo |
| Finding the story: Scams, fraud and a mountain of consumer complaint data | Tipsheet |
| Freelancer secrets: How to get paid for doing good investigative work | Slides / Audio |
| From the hallway of the IRE Conference: Connections, ideas and stories | Slides & tipsheet |
| Giving muscle to local news organizations for investigative projects and robust local reporting | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Gun control, climate change, housing crisis: How to look at the news through a military lens | Tipsheet / Audio |
| How to background people in an hour | Audio |
| How to break into freelancing and get investigative work | Audio |
| How to build a pipeline of talent and quality journalism | Audio |
| How to deliver local election stories that count | Slides / Tipsheet / Audio |
| How to investigate the local impact of global organized crime | Audio |
| How to make a great story into a great narrative podcast | Audio |
| How to organize and sequence complex investigations: A conversation with the 2023 Livingston Award winners | Audio |
| How to project manage like a duck: A guide for reporters and editors | Tipsheet / Audio |
| How to transition from daily reporting to writing a book | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Investigating algorithmic harm: Best practices and hard-learned lessons | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Investigating banking and finance industries | Slides / Audio |
| Investigating big agriculture | Audio |
| Investigating forced labor in the United States and abroad | Audio |
| Investigating inequities in education | Audio |
| Investigating inequity in higher education | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Investigating issues that impact the welfare of children | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Investigating judges and the courts | Audio |
| Investigating junk science | Audio |
| Investigating prisons and jails | Slides / Audio |
| Investigating transportation: Trains, planes and automobiles | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Investigations for campus coverage | Slides |
| Investigative techniques you can use in everyday reporting | Slides / Audio |
| La lucha contra la desinformación necesita colaboración para tener éxito: así es como podemos trabajar juntos | Audio |
| Local investigations with big impact | Tipsheet / Slides / Audio |
| Management track: Being a player-coach | Audio |
| Management track: Creating leadership opportunities for journalists of color | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Management track: How to lead in times of crisis | Audio |
| Management track: Pre-publication red flags for editors | Audio |
| Master Class: Writing the investigative narrative - pre-registered attendees only | Slides & tipsheet |
| Mental health care online: Easier access, unique risks | Audio |
| Nonprofit secrets hidden in plain sight: Decoding forms 990 | Slides / Audio |
| Pandemic's long-term effects on three public health sectors | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Pitch in for pitches | Slides / Audio |
| Police accountability: From data to narrative | Audio |
| Preparing new reporters for the news industry | Audio |
| Protecting journalists who become political pawns: What should newsrooms do when faced with a situation like Evan Gershkovich's arrest | Audio |
| Public records to request right now | Slides & spreadsheet / Audio |
| Public records track: 7 things you didn’t know about getting documents and records, from RECAP to ChatGPT | Audio |
| Public records track: Accessing court records & proceedings: What to look for, how to obtain it, and why it matters for your investigations | Audio |
| Public records track: Navigating FOIA | Audio |
| Reporting on guns as public safety and business beats | Audio |
| Reporting tips and tools for covering immigration in your community | Audio |
| Showcase: Local coverage, lasting impact: The Uvalde story | Audio |
| So you want to learn to code ... | GitHub repo |
| Solutions story ideas for investigative journalists | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Storyboarding your investigation | Slides / Audio |
| Strategies reporters can use to earn trust | Audio |
| Tailoring investigative journalism for the ear | Audio |
| Telling the longform investigations | Slides / Audio |
| The fight against mis- and disinformation needs collaboration to succeed — here’s how we can work together | Audio |
| The final fact check | Audio |
| The year in international investigations | Audio |
| Tracking dark money up and down the ballot | Slides & tipsheet / Audio |
| Trauma-informed reporting | Slides / Audio |
| Turning your investigation into a narrative on multiple platforms | Audio |
| U.S. audiences need better international news | Slides / Audio |
| Unearthing secrets: How to scrub any candidate or public official | Audio |
| Using data to uncover how climate change is affecting your city | Audio |
| Using OpenRefine, a power tool for cleaning data | Tipsheet |
| Visual investigations | Tipsheet / Audio |
| Web scraping with Python - pre-registered attendees only | GitHub repo |
| Welcome, first-timers! 👋 | Audio |
| What's next? Making career moves, big and small | Audio |
| When story subjects push back | Audio |
| Who’s it for? Bringing investigative stories to the communities we cover | Audio |
| Working with sources who are reluctant to share their stories | Audio |
| You need a disability beat: The stories and audiences we miss | Slides & tipsheet / Audio |
NICAR 2023 (117 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| 30 places to find data to cover issues in your community | Audio / Slides |
| 311: The 411 on how to report on your city’s infrastructure issues — and how this data can uncover stories on gentrification | Tipsheet |
| A conversation with U.S. Census Bureau director, Robert L. Santos | Audio |
| A new data tool for identifying where people are losing their homes | Tipsheet |
| Behind the story: Data dives on the crime beat | Tipsheet & Slides |
| Best practices when teaching investigative and data journalism classes | Audio |
| Beyond checking the facts: Tracing the spread of misinformation to the source | Audio |
| Beyond the Dobbs story: Public health coverage in a post-Roe America | Slides |
| Beyond the fire perimeter — data for wildfire investigations | Audio |
| Beyond the fire perimeter: Data for wildfire investigations | Slides |
| Bringing data journalism to the sports section | GitHub repository |
| Building an interactive map in the newsroom: How to bring skills and talent together | Slides |
| Celebrating the 50th anniversary of "Precision Journalism" | Audio |
| Census 2020: Get ready for Round 2 | Audio / Tipsheet & Slides (3) |
| Come learn about the Data-Driven Reporting Project | Tipsheet |
| Command line for reporters on a Mac | GitHub repository |
| Common digital attacks targeting journalists | Audio |
| Covering disparities in higher education with data | Tipsheet & Slides |
| Creating and serving vector map tiles using open source tools | GitHub repository | Slides |
| Data analysis in JavaScript | Slides | Github repository | Observable notebook |
| Data and digital tools for your newsroom and classroom | Tipsheet |
| Data blitz | Slides (5) |
| Data Dive: The 2022 Philip Meyer winners | Audio |
| Data for redistricting and election coverage | Tipsheet |
| Data on the business and economics beat | Audio / Tipsheet & Slides |
| Data scraping and mining: What are your legal rights? | Audio |
| Datasette: An ecosystem of tools for exploring data and collaborating on data projects | Tipsheet |
| Dataviz accessibility matters — here's what you can do to improve it | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Defining and measuring the success of your published work | Slides |
| DEI in data reporting | Slides |
| Don’t play (stupid) troll games: OpSec for public events ... like NICAR | Audio |
| Editing the data-driven investigation | Audio |
| Excel: Basic stats | Tipsheet |
| Extracting data from PDFs | GitHub repository |
| Finding the story: Digging into nonprofits for fun and, um, profit | GitHub repository |
| Finding the story: Higher education data | Google Drive Folder |
| Finding the story: Inflation data | Tipsheet & Spreadsheet |
| Finding the story: Nursing homes data | Slides |
| Finding the story: Parole boards | Tipsheet & Slides | Github repository |
| Finding the story: The American Community Survey | Tipsheet |
| Findings and using undocumented APIs | Website |
| Gathering data with APIs | Tipsheet & Slides |
| Gearing up for the 2024 election | Audio / Slides |
| Going beyond 'skills-based': contextualizing data journalism for students | Audio |
| How and when to open-source your code and analysis | Tipsheet |
| How to get a seat at the data journalism table and bring more chairs with you | Slides |
| How to investigate pay inequities at your workplace | Tipsheet & Slides |
| How to make your data story pop on TV | Audio / Tipsheets (2) & Slides |
| How to produce Long COVID coverage informed by data, public records and patient experiences | Tipsheet & Slides |
| How to propose an accessibility team or role in your newsroom: What they do and why they are needed | Slides | Website |
| How to retain the NICAR spirit year-round | Tipsheet |
| How to use investigative techniques to hold algorithms and artificial intelligence accountable | Audio / Slides |
| Introducing moneyinpolitics.wtf, a new campaign-finance dictionary made by and for data journalists | Website |
| Introduction to Python for data analysis | GitHub repository |
| Introduction to web development | GitHub repository |
| Investigating the big business of medical marijuana cards | Tipsheet & Slides |
| Investigative reporting for everyone with data: A quick-start guide | Tipsheet |
| It’s freezing! Investigating the climate crisis | Tipsheet & Slides (2) |
| Journalism workflow hacks and tips | Slides |
| Keeping it local: Inspiring regional reporters to use data journalism tools for their stories | Audio |
| Keeping secrets: Secure source communications | Tipsheet & Slides |
| Large-scale scraping projects | Audio |
| Let's make mapping better! | GitHub repository | Slides |
| Let's talk data memos! | Tipsheet |
| Litigating FOIA denials | Audio |
| Making maps with command-line tools | GitHub repository |
| Making redistricting data your friend: Finding out what information is out there and how you can use it | Slides |
| Mapping and geographic data analysis with the simple features package in R | GitHub repository |
| Master Class: Managing investigators … or how to lead journalists born to challenge authority | Tipsheet |
| Mining social media, without depending on the sites' owners goodwill | Audio / Slides |
| Next steps after ‘no’: What to do when your records request is denied | Audio |
| PDF processing with command-line tools | GitHub repository |
| Public records and data to request for (almost) any beat | Audio / Slides |
| Python: Working with PDFs using pdfplumber | GitHub repository |
| QAnon in Europe: Tracing a viral conspiracy through social media through collaborative journalism | Audio / Slides |
| QGIS 1: Mapmaking for beginners | Slides |
| QGIS 2: Analyzing geographic data | Slides |
| Quick turn data stories: Using the quick turn to your advantage | Audio / Slides |
| R: Introduction to statistics | Tipsheet |
| R: Making fancieR graphics | Website |
| Regular expressions for the rest of us | Tipsheet |
| Reporting on a military base near you using courts-martial records | Audio |
| Reporting Tools: Security research for reporters | Audio |
| Scraping without programming | Slides |
| Sharing your rapid Python analysis with the newsroom using Google Sheets | Slides | Github repository |
| Sneak peek of Google's new PDF-busting reporting tool | Tipsheet |
| Source tracking: Making it part of your newsroom practice | Audio / Tipsheet |
| Stats in R | GitHub repository |
| Successful project management for collaboration | Audio |
| Supercharge your local investigation with machine learning | Tipsheet & Slides |
| Telling data stories in audio | Audio / Tipsheet |
| The international money trail | Tipsheet & Slides |
| Tips and techniques for handling mass records requests to local agencies | Slides |
| Tools for statehouse reporting | Audio / Slides |
| Tracking nursing home data amid state and federal staffing reforms | Audio / Slides |
| Uncovering underground money networks | Audio / GitHub repository |
| Under pressure: Real life in real time with breaking news | Tipsheet & Slides |
| Upping your Excel game | Website |
| Using DocumentCloud & DocumentCloud AddOns | Slides |
| Using OpenRefine to powerwash your data | GitHub repository |
| Using public data to uncover the hidden costs of the housing crisis | Audio / Tipsheets (3) & Slides (2) |
| Web scraping with Python | GitHub repository |
| What's next? Career advice for those looking for the next move | Audio |
| When data assumes a male population | Tipsheet |
| Which data viz should I use and why? | Audio |
| Which dataviz should I use (and why)? | Tipsheet & Slides |
| Who's behind that website? | Slides | Checklist |
| Working with PDFs using off-the-shelf tools | Slides |
| ⚡️ Lightning Talk: A data-driven investigation: Is Nashville country music all trucks, beer and boots? | Slides |
| ⚡️ Lightning Talk: Bad Bunny and passion data side projects | Slides |
| ⚡️ Lightning Talk: Data journalism nightmares and tips: A meme story | Slides |
| ⚡️ Lightning Talk: Ergonomics for data journalists | Slides |
| ⚡️ Lightning Talk: GitHub, the ultimate anti-censorship tool | Slides |
| ⚡️ Lightning Talk: How ChatGPT makes my job easier (but won't replace me anytime soon) | Slides |
| ⚡️ Lightning Talk: How to battle a webmaster and win | Slides |
| ⚡️ Lightning Talk: Think like an accessibility engineer: Make real improvements to your content in minutes | Slides |
| ⚡️ Lightning Talk: Three new file formats for your toolbox | Slides |
DBEI 2022 (34 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| A keynote conversation with Sisi Wei and Lam Thuy Vo | Video recording |
| Advancing your career | Slides / Video recording |
| Approaching coverage of Indigenous communities and supporting your Indigenous colleagues | Video recording |
| Ask for what you want. Get paid what you're worth. | Video recording |
| Avoiding retraumatizing victims in your investigations | Video recording |
| Building (online) harassment-resistant newsrooms | Video recording |
| College press freedom 101 | Video recording |
| Cover housing, not real estate | Video recording |
| Covering 300+ anti-LGBTQ bills leading up to mid-terms | Video recording |
| Creating a newsroom that supports LGBTQ+ journalists | Video recording |
| DEI in data reporting | Video recording |
| Framing matters! How to avoid problematic language | Video recording |
| Get Access(ible): How editors can support journalists with disabilities | Video recording |
| Holding the powerful - in journalism - to account | Video recording |
| How to create and maintain a source diversity tracker | Video recording |
| How to include investigating inequity into your curriculum no matter the course | Video recording |
| Inclusive leadership | Video recording |
| Influence when you're not a decision maker | Video recording |
| Investigating inequities in education | Video recording |
| Investigating inequities in the classroom and beyond (even on deadline!) | Slides / Tipsheet / Video recording |
| Investigating stories on race and health | Video recording |
| Journalism 101: How to prepare students for the news industry | Video recording |
| Making the pitch: Selling your editor on an investigative project | Video recording |
| Public records for justice | Slides / Video recording |
| Pushing back on discrimination in the newsroom | Video recording |
| Quicker hit accountability stories on inequality | Video recording |
| Recruiting, hiring and retention for DBEI | Video recording |
| Reimagining leadership | Video recording |
| The pandemic isn't over, reporters and editors. What have we learned? | Video recording |
| The work of environmental journalists of color in reframing the beat | Video recording |
| Who is missing in official data? | Video recording |
| Who’s it for? Bringing investigative stories to the communities we cover | Video recording |
| You can build a new culture in a legacy newsroom | Video recording |
| You need a disability beat: The stories and audiences we miss | Video recording |
IRE 2022 (32 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| Accountability through solutions journalism | Tipsheet |
| Broadcast track: Dynamic duo: Teams share what works and what doesn't (Sponsored by Cox Media Group) | Tipsheet / Tipsheet (2) |
| Broadcast track: Investigating breaking news (Sponsored by Cox Media Group) | Slides |
| Broadcast track: The visual perspective (Sponsored by Cox Media Group) | Slides |
| Broadcast track: Working for you and on your side: Consumer investigations (Sponsored by Cox Media Group) | Tipsheet |
| Creating successful newsroom collaborations: Overcoming obstacles and maximizing impact working together | Tipsheet |
| Decoding the police narrative | Tipsheet |
| Diversity, equity & inclusion track: Including disability communities in your investigative reporting (Sponsored by CNN) | Tipsheet |
| Diversity, equity & inclusion track: Words matter (Sponsored by CNN) | Slides |
| Finding legal cover as an investigative freelancer | Tipsheet |
| Finding the story: Tracking the impact of import sanctions | Tipsheet |
| Hot topics to investigate on the energy beat | Tipsheet |
| How to find the best investigative story ideas and pitch them successfully | Slides |
| How to get your reporting project funded | Tipsheet / Tipsheet (2) / Tipsheet (3) / Tipsheet (4) / Slides |
| How to localize cross-border investigations | Slides / Tipsheet |
| Investigating corporate secrecy | Slides / Tipsheet |
| Investigating Title IX issues | Slides |
| Management track: Project management that works for reporters AND editors | Tipsheet / Tipsheet (2) / Tipsheet (3) |
| Master Class: Outlining and structure: The writer's missing manual (preregistered attendees only) | Tipsheet |
| Master class: Public records for justice (preregistered attendees only) (Sponsored by CNN) | Slides / Tipsheet / Tipsheet (2) |
| Master class: Writing the narrative (preregistered attendees only) | Slides / Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Misinformation: How do you know what to believe? | Tipsheet / Tipsheet (2) / Slides |
| My favorite free PDF tools | Slides |
| No one uses email anymore (Sponsored by the TEGNA Foundation) | Tipsheet |
| Public records track: 50+ records to request right now (Sponsored by The Wall Street Journal) | Slides |
| Public records track: Documents and data you can use to investigate inequity in K-12 education (Sponsored by The Wall Street Journal) | Tipsheet |
| Public records track: Key records to get for your campus investigation (Sponsored by The Wall Street Journal) | Slides |
| Shifting the narrative to audio investigations | Slides / Tipsheet |
| Student collaborations with media organizations | Slides |
| The final fact check | Slides |
| Using data to tell compelling stories for radio | Tipsheet |
| ⛺️ Rocky Mountain (research) High | Tipsheet |
NICAR 2022 (20 sessions)
| Session | Resources |
|---|---|
| A roadmap for editors | Tipsheet |
| Best practices for a successful collaboration | Slides |
| Broadcast: Data stories that don't look like data stories | Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Case studies in machine learning | Tipsheet |
| Covering the student debt crisis | Tipsheet |
| Following the money in Pandora Papers | Slides |
| How to get data through state records laws | Tipsheet |
| How to sensitively uncover issues and amplify voices in the Arab community | Slides / Tipsheet |
| How to squeeze court records to get the most juice | Slides / Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| How to tell compelling data stories on podcasts and in video | Tipsheet |
| How to use investigative techniques to hold algorithms and artificial intelligence accountable | Tipsheet |
| Make your data story ironclad | Slides |
| Managing big data for investigating disaster emergency and recovery processes | Tipsheet |
| Navigating the U.S. Freedom of Information Act | Tipsheet |
| PDF 1: Using free online tools | Slides / Tipsheet / Tipsheet / Tipsheet |
| Quick-turn data story ideas | Tipsheet |
| Records and data to request right now | Slides |
| Upping your Excel game | Tipsheet |
| Using data in pursuit of solutions journalism | Tipsheet |
| Using DataLab to analyze federal education data | Tipsheet / Tipsheet / Slides |