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42 sessions confirmed • Updated October 24 • All times are ET

IRE's symposium on diversity and inclusion will be an online event Oct. 20-21, 2022.

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The symposium will take place from noon to 4 p.m., Eastern U.S. time to allow for participation across the United States and around the world. Training sessions will be recorded and made available to attendees for later viewing. Attendees also will have access to on-demand technical skills training videos.

Registered attendees can access the most up-to-date schedule by logging into the Guidebook app — please check your email for login instructions. Questions or trouble signing in? Email logistics@ire.org.

Meantime, you can browse through the sessions below or search by session title, speaker name or keyword. The symposium will include a mix of panels, small-group conversations, networking and master classes, which are 2- to 3-hour deep-dive workshops. New sessions and speakers will be added to the schedule as they are confirmed.

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Thursday, 10/20

Sessions starting at 11 a.m. ET

networking

Welcome & networking

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 11 – 11:30 a.m. ET (30m)

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In this opening session, IRE's executive director Diana Fuentes and Director of Diversity and Inclusion Francisco Vara-Orta join IRE Board President Mark Walker and Vice President Cindy Galli to kick off #DBEI22.

We'll also will give an overview of the conference schedule, tips on using the Guidebook platform and connecting with other attendees, before breaking into small groups to network with your fellow IRE members.

Speakers

Diana Fuentes, IRE & NICAR 👇

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Cindy Galli, ABC News 👇

Cindy Galli is Executive Producer of ABC News’ award-winning Investigative Unit. She oversees a team of network correspondents, reporters and producers specializing in investigations ranging from government fraud and corporate corruption to racial injustice, consumer and environmental issues. She currently serves as Vice President on the IRE Board of Directors. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Cindy is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

On Twitter: @mustangalli

Francisco Vara-Orta, IRE & NICAR 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Mark Walker, New York Times 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Sessions starting at 12 p.m. ET

conversation

Advancing your career

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (30m)

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Industry leaders in recruitment and hiring share the secrets of finding your next position, nailing the interview and excelling at the job. What are they looking for in an applicant? What are the dos and don'ts of getting hired? And what are the skills every journalist needs to have in their toolkit? This session will explore internship and fellowship opportunities and is great for students and early to mid-career journalists.

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Shirley Carswell, Dow Jones News Fund 👇

Shirley Carswell is executive director of the Dow Jones News Fund, a nonprofit organization that promotes careers in journalism. Carswell is a journalist and educator with 30 years of experience in the news industry. She is former deputy managing editor of The Washington Post, where she spent most of her career, including positions as metro copy chief and assistant managing editor. She also taught journalism at Howard University before joining the News Fund in 2021.

On Twitter: @shirleycarswell

Kat Duncan, Reynolds Journalism Institute 👇

Kat Duncan is the Director of Innovation at RJI. She manages RJI's innovative initiatives, programs and workshops.

On Twitter: @katduncanphoto

Cindy Galli, ABC News 👇

Cindy Galli is Executive Producer of ABC News’ award-winning Investigative Unit. She oversees a team of network correspondents, reporters and producers specializing in investigations ranging from government fraud and corporate corruption to racial injustice, consumer and environmental issues. She currently serves as Vice President on the IRE Board of Directors. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Cindy is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

On Twitter: @mustangalli

Sona Patel, The New York Times 👇

Sona Patel is the Program and Editorial for the new Local Investigations Fellowship at The New York Times. She was previously on the Audience team overseeing reader-sourced reporting and crowdsourcing efforts in the newsroom as well as the team that moderates on-site reader comments. Prior to joining The Times she worked for The Seattle Times to build a social media strategy and before that was a beat reporter for The (San Luis Obispo) Tribune.

On Twitter: @sona

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The pandemic isn't over, reporters and editors. What have we learned?

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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Unfortunately, the pandemic is still affecting everyday life around the world. As we look ahead, what lessons should we remember from the last two and a half years? What stories should we be tracking — in health care, education, politics and other areas? What policies should newsrooms adopt to support journalists? How do we overcome data issues and pandemic fatigue, and how do we ensure this has not all been in vain?

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Karen Ho, Artnews 👇

Karen K. Ho is a senior writer at Artnews. She reports on the business side of the art industry. Her work has appeared in TIME, GQ, Men's Health, Quartz, Business Insider, and many other publications. She also helped popularize the term "doomscrolling."

On Twitter: @karenkho

Brian Rosenthal, The New York Times 👇

Brian M. Rosenthal is an investigative reporter on the Metro Desk of The New York Times. He previously covered state government at The Seattle Times and the Houston Chronicle. He won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for a series exposing predatory lending in the taxi industry. He also was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer in Public Service and was part of a team that won the 2015 Pulitzer in Breaking News. He is the IRE Treasurer.

On Twitter: @brianmrosenthal

Nabeelah Shabbir, ICFJ 👇

Nabeelah Shabbir is Senior Research Associate at the International Center for Journalists where she is working on the Journalism and the Pandemic Project. At the Guardian, she shared a British Journalism Award in 2015 with the "Keep it in the Ground" team. She has freelanced at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Financial Times, and Twitter, amongst others.

On Twitter: @lahnabee

Bianca Vázquez Toness, Associated Press 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

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How to include investigating inequity into your curriculum no matter the course

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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Learn how to infuse your curriculum and individual classes with lessons about diversity, inclusion, equity and anti-racism beginning with program objectives to professional development to readings and assignments.

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Fernando Diaz, Northwestern University 👇

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Kym Fox, Texas State University 👇

Kym Fox is a professor of practice and the journalism program coordinator at Texas State University. She teaches a variety of courses, including data journalism and journalism capstone. Fox spent 23 years as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Arizona and Texas. She is active in SPJ and IRE and currently serves on the IRE board’s college curriculum toolkit task force. She lives in the Texas Hill Country with an aging border collie and cantankerous rescue cat.

On Twitter: @kymfox

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Grand Valley State University/Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ) 👇

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein is an investigative journalist, author and the executive director of the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ). He also is the Endowed Chair of Civil Discourse at Grand Valley State University. His work has earned national and international recognition. He has participated in fellowships about racial justice, the environment, health, business and trauma. A Fulbright Scholar, Specialist and Teacher, he has written or edited six books.

On Twitter: @JeffKLO

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Reporting on undocumented immigrants

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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Best (and worst) practices on mitigating risk when reporting on immigrants without legal status.

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Alma Campos, South Side Weekly & Public Good News 👇

Alma Campos is a reporter, editor and translator for South Side Weekly where she covers immigrant communities in Chicago with a global dimension. South Side Weekly is an award-winning nonprofit newspaper in which her story about the community’s fight against metal scrapper General Iron first appeared as a front page story. Campos also writes about global health and misinformation for Public Good News, a national newswire. Alma was born in Jalisco Mexico.

On Twitter: @alma_campos

Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic 👇

Caitlin Dickerson is a staff writer for The Atlantic focused on immigration. Her 18-month investigation titled 'We Need to Take Away Children," served as the magazine's September 2022 cover story. Dickerson is a former New York Times and NPR investigative reporter, and a Peabody and Edward R. Murrow award recipient, and a three-time finalist for the Livingston Award.

On Twitter: @itscaitlinhd

Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica 👇

Melissa is an investigative reporter at ProPublica, where she writes about immigrants and low-wage workers in the Midwest. Her work here examining Chicago’s punitive ticketing and debt collection system led to significant reforms, including the restoration of driving privileges to tens of thousands of motorists. She is the daughter of immigrants and based in Chicago.

On Twitter: @msanchezmia

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Who is missing in official data?

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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We know the US Census Bureau does not have a checkbox for “Middle Eastern or North African.” But who else is left out of the “official” categories for race and ethnicity? Will more federal agencies add questions about sexual orientation and gender identity? Who is least likely to fill out the census? And what does this mean for representation and how public money is distributed in fast-changing states like Texas?

Speakers

Darla Cameron, The Texas Tribune 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Hansi Lo Wang, NPR 👇

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) is a correspondent for NPR. Wang was the first journalist to uncover plans by former President Donald Trump's administration to end 2020 census counting early. His reporting on failed campaigns for a census citizenship question has been honored with the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award and the American Statistical Association's Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award.

On Twitter: @hansilowang

Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune 👇

Alexa Ura is a reporter at The Texas Tribune. As the Tribune’s demographics reporter, she covers the intersection of politics and public policy with race, with an emphasis on the state’s surging Hispanic population.

On Twitter: @alexazura

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Quicker hit accountability stories on inequality

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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A lightning round-up of ways to do short-turnaround accountability stories on in equality, and ways to build those stories into series or longer term projects

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Marina Villeneuve, Associated Press 👇

Marina Villeneuve is the New York state government and politics reporter for The Associated Press. She enjoys using data and public records to hold officials accountable.

On Twitter: @reportermarina

Sessions starting at 1:30 p.m. ET

conversation

Pushing back on discrimination in the newsroom

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. ET (75m)

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It goes without saying that many journalists of color have experienced discrimination in the newsroom. But in a competitive business, it's not always easy to confront -- in real time or even long afterward. Join this conversation to discuss why telling these stories is more important than ever, and learn tangible ways you can push back when experiencing or witnessing discrimination.

Speakers

Lily Jamali, Marketplace 👇

Lily Jamali is a senior reporter at the public radio program "Marketplace." Prior to joining Marketplace, she spent three years at KQED’s The California Report, where she hosted the program and filed a series of investigative reports on the 2019-2020 bankruptcy of the utility PG&E, documenting its impact on tens of thousands of fire survivors. Lily has also served as an anchor and reporter at Bloomberg TV Canada and Reuters TV.

On Twitter: @lilyjamali

Mónica Rhor, Chalkbeat 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Neena Satija, Houston Chronicle 👇

Neena Satija is a reporter on the Houston Chronicle's investigative team. She has worked at The Washington Post, The Texas Tribune, and Connecticut Public Radio. Her work has won a Peabody Award, two National Edward R. Murrow awards for investigative reporting, and two National Magazine Award nominations.

On Twitter: @neenareports

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Recruiting, hiring and retention for DBEI

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. ET (75m)

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Employers need to rethink their strategy (or create one) around staffing. It isn't enough to decide when you have an opening that you're prioritizing diversity. It's crucial to be making meaningful strides for equity and inclusion all the time to attract and keep the talent you need. Join this candid conversation to learn how you can do better during the recruiting and hiring phase so you can retain a diverse newsroom.

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Doris Truong, Poynter Institute 👇

Doris Truong is the Poynter Institute director of teaching & diversity strategies. She is founding editor of The Collective, a newsletter by journalists of color for JOCs and allies. She was previously breaking-news/weekend homepage editor for The Washington Post and a copy editor for nearly 15 years, including at The Dallas Morning News. She served as national president of the Asian American Journalists Association and VP of UNITY: Journalists for Diversity.

On Twitter: @doristruong

panel

You need a disability beat: The stories and audiences we miss

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. ET (60m)

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Join this panel to learn about working with disabled people and communities to investigate stories about inequity and injustice.

This session was planned in collaboration with National Center on Disability and Journalism. IRE retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions.

Speakers

Sara Luterman, The 19th* 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Becca Monteleone, University of Toledo 👇

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Betsy O'Donovan, Western Washington University 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

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Investigating inequities in the classroom and beyond (even on deadline!)

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. ET (60m)

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Each year, governments give away as much as $95 billion per year in economic development incentives across the United States. These incentives have the impact in some places of exacerbating inequality as well as racial disparities. In this practical session, data and budget expert Amy Rose will show reporters how to use a powerful accounting statement found in governmental end-of-year spending reports (Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 77, “GASB 77”), tax expenditure budgets and public records requests to uncover what corporate tax breaks cost communities. She will also use case studies to show some of what reporters have found using the GASB 77 and related documents. This session is especially pertinent for education reporters – school districts usually have no say in whether their money is diverted for economic development incentives, even though their share of abated revenue often makes up the greatest percentage – as well as any reporter who covers economic development.

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Amy Rose, Good Jobs First 👇

Amy has experience in various government, think tank, and nonprofit institutions at the local, state, and federal levels. At Good Jobs First, Amy is responsible for overseeing the work on GASB 77 and managing Tax Break Tracker. Amy received her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed her master’s degree in public policy and administration at Northwestern University.

On Twitter: @amyjanerose

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Avoiding retraumatizing victims in your investigations

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. ET (75m)

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Journalists know the importance of amplifying and centering the voices of victims impacted by systems and people in power that fail. In the well-intentioned quest to do that, we sometimes unknowingly exacerbate trauma and prolong the healing process of those we seek to help. Come learn about best practices to avoid mistakes that undermine both victims and our work.

Speakers

Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group 👇

Jodie Fleischer is the Managing Editor of Investigative Content for Cox Media Group where she builds national collaborations and works to elevate daily investigative content for 8 local television stations. She previously spent 20+ years as an investigative reporter for NBC4 in Washington, WSB-TV in Atlanta and WFTV in Orlando. She’s been honored with an IRE Award, duPont Award, and numerous Murrow and Emmy Awards. She has served on IRE’s Board of Directors since 2019.

On Twitter: @jodieTVnews

Laura Garcia, The Texas Tribune 👇

Laura Garcia is the afternoon/evening editor at The Texas Tribune. Previously, she was the health care reporter at the San Antonio Express-News with bylines at the Victoria Advocate, The Roanoke Times in Virginia, Corpus Christi Caller-Times and Longview News-Journal. She is president of the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists, a nonprofit that funds journalism student scholarships and advocates for diversity in newsrooms.

On Twitter: @reporter_laura

Tony Plohetski, Austin American-Statesman 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Sessions starting at 3 p.m. ET

conversation

Cover housing, not real estate

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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Housing is far more interesting than its worth as a commodity. It is a fundamental need that shapes the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities, and plays a central role in equity and justice discussions. This session will provide tools, strategies and concepts that will help reporters and editors dig beyond so-called market forces to cover housing, not real estate, and launch the kinds of inquiries that can help readers understand how inequality emerges from the places we call home.

Speakers

Grace Asiegbu, Injustice Watch 👇

Grace is a reporter at Injustice Watch covering housing issues through an intersectional lens, while examining current housing policies and programs and how they affect communities and people’s everyday lives. Grace was born and raised in Chicago and currently lives on the city's South Side.

On Twitter: @_uzunma

Willoughby Mariano, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 👇

Willoughby Mariano is an investigative reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she focuses on housing and criminal justice. She was a 2021 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where she studied concepts of housing, home and identity. Other honors include a National Headliner Award in investigative journalism and the Atlanta Press Club’s award for civil and human rights reporting. Mariano is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association.

On Twitter: @wmariano

Anjulie Rao, freelance 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

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Creating a newsroom that supports LGBTQ+ journalists

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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Panelists will cover how to acknowledge queerness as an identity that often intersects with other identities, how to avoid equating LGBTQ+ with whiteness, how to avoid pigeonholing LGBTQ+ journalists, and how to make policies that support LGBTQ+ journalists including byline changes for trans journalists and inclusive parental leave policies. We will encourage journalists to consider how to reach people who don’t identify as LGBTQ+ but engage in behavior that may suggest otherwise, i.e. men who have sex with men but don’t consider themselves gay or bisexual. We will cover how to find up-to-date style advice by LGBTQ+ journalists and how to engage in complex conversations about LGBTQ+ issues. We hope to answer questions that folks might be nervous to ask in other settings and learn from other journalists who have experience or advice they’d like to share on this topic.

Speakers

Ina Fried, Axios 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Karen Hawkins, The 19th* 👇

Karen Hawkins is story editor at The 19th*, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. She previously served as co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Reader. She’s the founder of Rebellious Magazine for Women and the Feminist Media Foundation, and co-host of Of Course I’m Not OK: The Podcast. She serves on the national board of NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists.

On Twitter: @ChiefRebelle

Olivia Sanchez, The Hechinger Report 👇

Olivia Sanchez is a higher education reporter at The Hechinger Report. She previously covered local and state government for the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. Olivia earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Portland and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon.

On Twitter: @oliviarsanchez

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Public records for justice

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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This practical workshop will lay out public records to help attendees examine racial justice in their communities, and how to acquire those records. This session will provide a list of records to request to expose inequities and make the world a little better.

Speakers

Mona Alsaidi, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 👇

Mona is the NBCU News Group Race Equity in Journalism Legal Fellow. In that role, she focuses on addressing the legal needs of journalists, reporters, newsrooms, and documentary filmmakers of color. Mona earned her law degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law. Mona interned for Third Circuit Judge Marjorie Rendell, the Office of Federal Operations at the EEOC, the Community Economic Development Project within Brooklyn Legal Services, and other organizations.

On Twitter: @mona_alsaidi

Shawn Musgraves, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 👇

Shawn Musgrave is the Jack Nelson/Dow Jones Foundation Legal Fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, where he focuses on the federal Freedom of Information Act and state public records laws.

On Twitter: @shawnmusgrave

Mark Walker, New York Times 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

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Journalism 101: How to prepare students for the news industry

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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How do you create psychological safety for your students who are covering very emotional topics connected to identity? How do you prepare them for the industry and the stories they may cover, such as abortion, domestic violence, incarceration, drug abuse, sexual orientation/identity and race/ethnicity – topics that can often come with strong opinions, risks and experiences?

Speakers

Josh Hinkle, KXAN-TV/St. Edward’s University 👇

Josh Hinkle is KXAN’s director of investigations and innovation, leading the station’s duPont and IRE Award-winning investigative team. He also leads KXAN’s political coverage as the executive producer and host of “State of Texas,” a weekly statewide program focused on the Texas Legislature and elections. Josh teaches broadcast journalism at St. Edward’s University in Austin. He also serves on the board of directors for both IRE and the FOI Foundation of Texas.

On Twitter: @hinklej

Nausheen Husain, Syracuse University 👇

Nausheen is an assistant professor at Syracuse University, teaching journalism with an emphasis on data analysis, investigative reporting, underreported communities and civil liberties. Her research and reporting focuses on Western news coverage of Muslim communities and places where Muslim people of color have interacted with incarceration.

On Twitter: @nausheenhusain

Maggie Mulvihill, Boston University 👇

Maggie Mulvihill’s data journalism students have won more than a dozen regional or national journalism awards. Maggie, an attorney, is a former Nieman Fellowand co-founded the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press, the New England First Amendment Coalition board.

On Twitter: @maggiemulvihill

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You can build a new culture in a legacy newsroom

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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When the Center for Public Integrity launched its new mission to investigate inequality, it had a newsroom that was primarily male and overwhelmingly white. Now, two years later, the staff is 60% people of color and 70% identify as a gender other than male. How did one of the oldest nonprofit investigative newsrooms move so boldly and so quickly on the organizational strategy and culture required to drive this change? What can we learn from the challenges they’ve faced and how they overcame them? What are the strategies new leadership is using to facilitate this transformation? How are they sustaining a new culture of belonging and empowerment? In this discussion, CPI's leadership team will be sharing the lessons they’ve learned from experience to equip more leaders to lead this necessary change in their own newsrooms.

Speakers

Matt DeRienzo, Center for Public Integrity 👇

Matt DeRienzo (he/him) joined Public Integrity as editor in chief in June 2020. Previously, he was vice president of news for Hearst's Connecticut newspapers, served as the first full-time executive director of LION Publishers, and has worked as a local newspaper reporter, editor and publisher.

On Twitter: @mattderienzo

Jin Ding, Center for Public Integrity 👇

Jin Ding is Public Integrity’s chief of staff. She is the vice president of finance at the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA). Jin started their career in media as a sports journalist. She worked at NBC Sports, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, International Women's Media Foundation and the Associated Press.

On Twitter: @jinkding

Mc Nelly Torres, Center for Public Integrity 👇

Mc Nelly Torres is an award-winning journalist and editor at The Center for Public Integrity. She’s also a former investigative producer for NBC6 in Miami. In 2010, Torres co-founded FCIR.org. Throughout her career, Torres has worked for numerous newspapers across the country, including the Sun-Sentinel and the San Antonio Express-News. Torres was the first Latina to be elected to the IRE board of directors. Torres is the 2022 recipient of the Gwen Ifill Award.

On Twitter: @WatchdogDiva

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How to create and maintain a source diversity tracker

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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Hear from journalists across the nation who are leading the way on making sure our sources better reflect the communities we live in and the issues we cover -- from creating innovative source databases to comprehensive ways of tracking diversity of sources newsroom-wide.

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Kristen Barton, Fort Worth Report 👇

Kristen is an education reporter with the Fort Worth Report, where she leads the newsroom diversity source team. The Report is a nonprofit local news organization that is just over a year old. Kristen covers local education issues and works with other reporters in the newsroom on making sure those quoted in the reporting represents the community FWR is covering. She is a Texas Tech graduate and from Longview, Texas.

On Twitter: @kristenjobarton

Caroline Bauman, Chalkbeat 👇

Caroline Bauman helps lead engaged journalism at Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering education and equity. She works with Chalkbeat’s eight local bureaus to bring vital journalism to readers, crowdsource journalism projects, engage via community events and social media, and also leads Chalkbeat source diversity efforts. Bauman has a master’s degree from the University of Missouri as a Thurgood Marshall Fellow.

On Twitter: @CarolineBmn

Lauren Chapman, Indiana Public Broadcasting 👇

Lauren is the digital editor (and unofficial protest reporter) for the statewide news collaboration Indiana Public Broadcasting. She worked in commercial TV and newspapers before moving to public media in 2016. After the June 2020 protests, Lauren developed a copy-and-paste source diversity tracker that she's always excited to talk about and help others use.

On Twitter: @laurenechapman_

Tamara Dunn, The Denver Post 👇

Tamara Dunn is a digital strategist at The Denver Post. She works in breaking news and business. Prior to joining the Post, Dunn was an editor and movie columnist for The Times Leader, Standard-Speaker and The Citizens' Voice newspapers in northeastern Pennsylvania. She also worked at The Progress-Index in Petersburg, Va. Dunn graduated from Wake Forest University with a bachelor's degree in studio art. She is a native of Queens, N.Y.

On Twitter: @tamaraddunn

Sessions starting at 4:30 p.m. ET

special

A keynote conversation with Sisi Wei and Lam Thuy Vo

🕙 Thursday (10/20) • 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. ET (60m)

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Speakers

Lam Thuy Vo, independent journalist 👇

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Sisi Wei, The Markup 👇

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Friday, 10/21

Sessions starting at 11 a.m. ET

conversation

Let's co-create an anti-racism toolkit

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 11 – 11:30 a.m. ET (30m)

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Are you committed to anti-racism work but need help finding the right tools and resources? Do you have a go-to anti-racist author, podcast, thought-leader or scholar that you'd like to share with others? Join this group discussion to co-create an anti-racism toolkit to share with colleagues, friends and family who are committed to doing the work.

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Megan Luther, independent 👇

Megan Luther is a former investigative producer with InvestigateTV, Gray Television's national investigative team. Previously, she was IRE's senior training director and a data analyst for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Megan is the mother of two in South Dakota.

On Twitter: @MeganLuther

Laura Moscoso, IRE & NICAR 👇

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conversation

Learn about the IRE/JournalismMentors.com program

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 11 – 11:30 a.m. ET (30m)

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Learn more about the partnership between IRE and JournalismMentors.com, which has allowed IRE to expand its mentorship program year round. We'll show you how to sign up -- either as a mentor or mentee -- and how to get the most out of the program.

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Diana Fuentes, IRE & NICAR 👇

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Adriana Lacy, Nieman Foundation 👇

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Caitlin Ostroff, Wall Street Journal 👇

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conversation

Influence when you're not a decision maker

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 11 – 11:30 a.m. ET (30m)

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How can you positively influence DBEI issues in the workplace when you don't actually have hiring or firing power? Join Jill Geisler for a her top 10 tips in 10 mins on how to influence decision making when you are not in a decision-making position. We'll leave plenty of time for questions!

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Jill Geisler, Loyola University Chicago/The Freedom Forum 👇

Jill Geisler is the person newsrooms turn to for healthier leadership, culture and journalism. A veteran journalist, groundbreaking news director, author, columnist, and educator, she holds the Bill Plante Chair in Leadership and Media Integrity at Loyola Chicago and leads the Freedom Forum's Power Shift Project. Jill is known for her high-impact teaching and coaching, always evidence-based and practical - delivered with humanity, humor and heart.

On Twitter: @JillGeisler

networking

Networking/Coffee talk

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 11 – 11:30 a.m. ET (30m)

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Josh Hinkle, KXAN-TV/St. Edward’s University 👇

Josh Hinkle is KXAN’s director of investigations and innovation, leading the station’s duPont and IRE Award-winning investigative team. He also leads KXAN’s political coverage as the executive producer and host of “State of Texas,” a weekly statewide program focused on the Texas Legislature and elections. Josh teaches broadcast journalism at St. Edward’s University in Austin. He also serves on the board of directors for both IRE and the FOI Foundation of Texas.

On Twitter: @hinklej

Adam Rhodes, IRE & NICAR 👇

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Sessions starting at 12 p.m. ET

conversation

DEI in data reporting

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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With data collection, algorithms and artificial intelligence affecting larger parts of our lives, journalists should become more comfortable with using data for reporting. But how can we do this while keeping diversity and inclusion in mind, and not leaving some groups behind, or emphasizing a status quo that disadvantages historically excluded communities? This session will offer a compilation of existing resources as well as a callout for more: What resources do you know of? What have your experiences been? Come share, and help build a guide to DEI practices in data reporting that we can all use!

Speakers

Cam Rodriguez, Chalkbeat 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Samantha Sunne, Independent journalist 👇

Samantha Sunne is a freelance journalist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the recipient of three national grants and several awards for investigative reporting and speaks at conferences, universities and newsrooms around the world.

On Twitter: @samanthasunne

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CANCELED - Covering hate crimes

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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Unfortunately, due to illness, this panel has been canceled.

The past few years have seen a dramatic rise in anti-Asian, antisemitic, and anti-trans violence just to name a few. As this violence continues, how can journalists report on these sensitive, complicated incidents with nuance, respect, and context. In this panel, journalists will detail how they have covered hate crimes and what they recommend for others covering these incidents.

Speakers

Jacob Kornbluh, Forward 👇

Jacob Kornbluh is the senior political reporter for the Forward. A member of the Hasidic community in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, Kornbluh covers politics with a Jewish angle and regularly interviews government officials, candidates and political commentators on issues that matter to the broader Jewish American community.

On Twitter: @jacobkornbluh

Adam Rhodes, IRE & NICAR 👇

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Kimmy Yam, NBC 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

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Holding the powerful - in journalism - to account

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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News outlets seek to hold politicians and power to account for their failings, but these same publications fail miserably in holding themselves accountable, particularly around the lack of diversity and pay equity.

Where is the balance of making this case internally, to no avail, and pointing out these disparities publicly, often to the detriment of the brand. This is a job, after all and a relationship. Each serves at the pleasure of themselves, so to speak.

Speakers

Andy Alford, The Texas Tribune 👇

Andy Alford joined The Texas Tribune as director of editorial recruitment, training and career development in March 2022 after a 24-year run at the Austin American-Statesman, where she rose from reporter to assistant metro editor, metro editor, senior editor and then managing editor. In her role at the Tribune, she also manages the fellowship program.

On Twitter: @aalford

Myriam Márquez, News Leaders Association 👇

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David Plazas, The Tennessean/USA TODAY Network 👇

David Plazas is the USA TODAY Network Tennessee Opinion and Engagement Director in Nashville. He is an award-winning columnist, newsletter curator, podcaster and TEDx speaker. He focuses on local/state politics and economic trends. He co-chairs The Tennessean’s DEI task force and is on the CEO’s Diversity Advisory Council. A Chicago native of Colombian and Cuban descent, he holds a B.A. and M.S.J. from Northwestern U. and an MBA from Florida Gulf Coast U.

On Twitter: @davidplazas

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Inclusive leadership

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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This session is part of the Power Shift Project’s Workplace Integrity curriculum. It is led by its author, Jill Geisler, the Freedom Forum Fellow in Women’s Leadership. The “Inclusive Leadership” webinar reviews eight things inclusive leaders know and do. The advice is practical, the examples are authentic, the insights come from research, and guidance comes from longtime advocates for diversity, equity and inclusion in journalism and beyond.

Speaker

Jill Geisler, Loyola University Chicago/The Freedom Forum 👇

Jill Geisler is the person newsrooms turn to for healthier leadership, culture and journalism. A veteran journalist, groundbreaking news director, author, columnist, and educator, she holds the Bill Plante Chair in Leadership and Media Integrity at Loyola Chicago and leads the Freedom Forum's Power Shift Project. Jill is known for her high-impact teaching and coaching, always evidence-based and practical - delivered with humanity, humor and heart.

On Twitter: @JillGeisler

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The work of environmental journalists of color in reframing the beat

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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This panel will provide a historical context for understanding the unique challenges facing environmental journalists of color, as well as highlighting some of their many successes. As part of this session, the panel will also discuss the challenges facing EJOC and ally journalists in publishing environmental justice stories, both from newsroom and freelance perspectives. We'll also talk about how DBEI efforts within newsrooms, journalism organizations, and other spaces might support EJOC and ally journalists in publishing stories about the environment, including, but not limited to, environmental justice stories. Finally, the panel will invite the audience participants to co-imagine solutions to these challenges.

This session was planned in collabration with the Society of Environmental Journalists. IRE retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions.

Speakers

Emilia Askari, University of Michigan 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Sadie Babits, Cronkite News 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Gloria Gonzalez, POLITICO 👇

Gloria Gonzalez is the Deputy Energy Editor at POLITICO. Gonzalez joined POLITICO in February 2021 after more than two decades writing, reporting and editing stories about energy and environmental, health care and workplace safety issues for companies including Industry Dive and Crain Communications. Gonzalez is a former board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and currently serves on SEJ's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.

On Twitter: @ggonzalez2176

Rico Moore, Independent Journalist 👇

Rico Moore is a freelance journalist based in Washington state. Broadly, his work focuses on the confluence between environment and humanity. He often focuses on the cultural dimensions of these stories with an eye toward historical context. Stories have been published in Audubon Magazine, The Boulder Weekly, DeSmog Blog, The Guardian, High Country News, and most recently, The Margin.

On Twitter: @ricocolorado

Bernardo Motta, Roger Williams University 👇

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Who’s it for? Bringing investigative stories to the communities we cover

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 12 – 1 p.m. ET (60m)

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Hear from practitioners on how they make sure they package their investigations into formats that reach their subjects — from translations of content to finding ways to engage them in your process.

Speakers

Alejandra Cancino, City Bureau 👇

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Nicole Lewis, Marshall Project 👇

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Rommel H. Ojeda, DocumentedNY 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Aviva Shen, Type Investigations 👇

Aviva Shen is a Deputy Editor at Type Investigations. She was previously a senior editor at Slate, overseeing coverage of the courts and legal news. She has also worked as a senior editor at The Appeal, where she directed and edited investigations into local criminal legal systems, and ThinkProgress, where she managed on-the-ground political reporting and news analysis. Her own reporting has appeared in The Guardian, CityLab, The Trace, and other outlets.

On Twitter: @avivash

Lam Thuy Vo, independent journalist 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Sessions starting at 1:30 p.m. ET

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Making the pitch: Selling your editor on an investigative project

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. ET (60m)

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What's the most effective way to bring an investigative idea to your editor -- or pitch an investigative idea as a freelancer. Join Aaron Glantz, executive-in-residence at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and international journalist Fariba Nawa, the host and editor-in-chief of OnSpec podcast for a workshop on making the pitch.

Speakers

Aaron Glantz, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education 👇

A two-time Peabody Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Aaron Glantz’s work has sparked new laws, dozens of Congressional hearings and investigations from the FBI, DEA, Pentagon, and United Nations. A former long-time journalist at Reveal and investigations editor for NPR’s California Newsroom, Aaron is helping to mentor a new generation of investigative journalists of color as an executive-in-residence at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.

On Twitter: @Aaron_Glantz

Fariba Nawa, On Spec Podcast 👇

Fariba Nawa is an award-winning author, speaker and journalist. She co-founded and hosts On Spec podcast. You can find her words and voice in the New Yorker, Financial Times, PRX's The World and Reveal. She is the author of Opium Nation and contributing author of The American Way: Stories of Invasion. She lives in Istanbul with her two daughters and their cat.

On Twitter: @faribanawa

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Learn how to craft a winning public records request

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. ET (75m)

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Join Mark Walker, investigative reporter for The New York Times, as he walks you through the basics of filing a public records request. Bring all your questions and FOIAs for this master class in getting the data and docs you need to hold those in power to account.

Speaker

Mark Walker, New York Times 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

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Framing matters! How to avoid problematic language

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. ET (60m)

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So you or your reporting team has done the hard work of getting the data, the docs and the interviews with key voices for your story. But in the rush to publish the findings, the devil in the details can get you because you or your news organization framed the story with poor wording choices or forgot to take into account historical context about what certain words mean. Come learn how to avoid being dragged online and in your community for mistakes you could have easily prevented.

Speakers

Tanya Pai, Vox 👇

Tanya Pai is the style and standards editor for Vox and the editorial lead for Language, Please, a free, living resource for all journalists and storytellers seeking to thoughtfully cover social, cultural, and identity-related topics. She has a master’s degree in publishing and writing from Emerson College and lives in Washington, DC.

On Twitter: @TanyaPai

Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th* 👇

Barbara Rodriguez is the state politics and voting reporter at The 19th. She most recently worked at the Des Moines Register, where she covered health care, politics and state government. Before that, Barbara was the Iowa statehouse reporter for The Associated Press, where she worked for a decade.

On Twitter: @bcrodriguez

Kathy Stokes, AARP 👇

Kathy Stokes is a nationally recognized leader in the consumer fraud arena. As Director of Fraud Prevention Programs with AARP, Kathy leads AARP’s social mission work to educate older adults on the risks that fraud represents to their financial security.

On Twitter: @kstokes2011

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Covering 300+ anti-LGBTQ bills leading up to mid-terms

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. ET (60m)

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In this session, some of the nation’s most respected LGBTQ+ journalists will discuss how to accurately cover the hundreds of bills targeting LGBTQ+ people, mostly trans youth, across the country ahead of the upcoming elections. This session will give you the tools to undertake accurate, nuanced and respectful coverage of these topics that cuts through rhetoric and misinformation.

Speakers

Tat Bellamy-Walker, NBC News 👇

Tat Bellamy - Walker reports for NBCs' diversity verticals. Last year, he was selected as a fellow with the Poynter Institute. His work has appeared in the Daily Beast, Business Insider and on CNN.

On Twitter: @bell_tati

Lauren McGaughy, The Dallas Morning News 👇

Lauren is an investigative reporter based in Austin who focuses on gender, sexuality and politics. She previous worked for The Houston Chronicle and The New Orleans Times-Picayune. Lauren has won awards from IRE, the Headliners Foundation of Texas and the LGBT Journalists Association. She has twice been nominated for a GLAAD award for her work about transgender Texans. Ask her about her wig collection!

On Twitter: @lmcgaughy

Adam Rhodes, IRE & NICAR 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Orion Rummler, The 19th* 👇

Orion Rummler covers LGBTQ+ and breaking news for The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom at the intersection of gender, politics and policy. He previously covered breaking news at Axios and contributed research to "Axios on HBO."

On Twitter: @i_oriion

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Investigating stories on race and health

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. ET (60m)

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The pandemic has laid bare the longtime racial health inequalities preventing people of color from accessing the healthcare system. While the media has latched onto historical narratives around why people of color distrust their doctors, these incidences do not always illustrate what makes the U.S. health system inaccessible to marginalized communities. Issues including language barriers, health insurance status, transportation, employment, housing, child care, lack of racial representation among health care professionals, past incidences of medical racism and more can disproportionately impact people of color and opportunities to receive care. As the pandemic continues and we prepare for a post-pandemic world, this panel will help attendees understand the wealth of stories available and how to investigate inequities in health care in their community.

Speakers

Ava Kian, MinnPost 👇

Ava is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota journalism program. She's interested in learning about the issues people around her are passionate about. With experience reporting in several mediums, including podcasts, digital and print newspapers, photo and video, Ava enjoys all forms of journalism. Born and raised in South Minneapolis, she aims to make Minnesota a more accepting place.

On Twitter: @kian_ava

Liz Lucas, IRE & NICAR 👇

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Renuka Rayasam, Kaiser Health News 👇

Renuka Rayasam, Senior Correspondent, joined KHN in April 2022 from POLITICO where she wrote for the magazine, covered Texas politics and launched a daily Covid-19 briefing. She has worked for the Austin American-Statesman and U.S. News & World Report. She also spent six years freelancing from Berlin, Germany. She has a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and Bachelors in German and Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.

On Twitter: @RenuRayasam

Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT 👇

Nicholas St. Fleur is a general assignment reporter and associate editorial director of events at STAT. He covers the intersection of race, medicine, and the life sciences and hosts the award-winning health equity podcast "Color Code." St. Fleur won the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists and was a 2020 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow. He previously worked for The New York Times and The Atlantic.

On Twitter: @scifleur

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Reimagining leadership

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. ET (75m)

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News organizations often promote their best reporters into leadership positions. But the skills are not completely transferable: what makes a great reporter doesn’t always make a great newsroom leader.

Despite this dissonance, newsrooms rarely provide the support and training to nurture those that they promote into leadership roles. Without proper training, leaders are ill-equipped to build equitable and supportive systems, and can burn out quickly or alienate their direct reports.

Journalists of color can face the biggest hurdles when assuming positions of power at their news organizations. They can be the only non-white voice on mastheads or at senior leadership meetings. They may be tasked with addressing – and unrealistically expected to fix – an organization’s diversity problems. They inherit an institution’s baggage that has marginalized them and their peers.

This session will define leadership from various perspectives, demonstrate that it can take on many shapes and forms, and imagine new ways to lead that don’t reproduce the cycles of organizational bias and racism that disproportionately affect journalists of color.

Speakers

Manny Garcia, Austin American-Statesman 👇

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Felecia D. Henderson, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education 👇

Felecia D. Henderson is Director for Cultural Competency at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She coaches news organizations on infusing diversity, equity and belonging practices into coverage and the workplace via the Table Stakes digital newsroom innovation programs. She also is a Fault Lines® trainer and co-leader of Maynard's Newsroom Transformation Program.

On Twitter: @Newsgirl84

Kimbriell Kelly, LA Times 👇

Kimbriell Kelly is an Assistant Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief at the Los Angeles Times, overseeing coverage of politics and policy in Washington, D.C. She led the bureau’s coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, the 2020 Trump election challenge and is the first person of color to lead the bureau since it started operating in Washington in the 1940s, and only the second woman to hold that post for The Times.

On Twitter: @kimbriell

Bernice Yeung, Investigative Reporting Program at Berkeley Journalism 👇

Bernice Yeung is the managing editor of the Investigative Reporting Program at Berkeley Journalism. Previously, she was a reporter at ProPublica and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. She’s the author of In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers, which was honored with the PEN America/John Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and was a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

On Twitter: @bmyeung

Sessions starting at 3 p.m. ET

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Ask for what you want. Get paid what you're worth.

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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Whether you work in a newsroom or classroom, we often wish we could get the salary, raises, promotions, and assignments we want. But how often does that little voice in your head say, "No, don't do it? They'll say 'no.'" In this session we'll discuss ways to get the recognition you deserve, including better pay. Learn how to start the conversation and show your managers that you are worth the investment. This session is open to journalists of all levels of experience.

Speakers

Rebecca Aguilar, Society of Professional Journalists & Latinas in Journalism 👇

Rebecca Aguilar has been a reporter for four decades. She's a freelance reporter in Dallas. She has been recognized with 50 awards, and nominations for her work in journalism, including investigations that uncovered a corrupt school district in Dallas, dentists, and she busted US Mail carriers who are registered sex offenders. Rebecca is also the first Latina and woman of color to be elected President of The Society of Professional Journalists in its 113-year history.

On Twitter: @RebeccaAguilar

Patti DiVincenzo, IRE & NICAR 👇

Speaker bio coming soon!

Larry Graham, The Diversity Pledge Institute 👇

Larry Graham is the founder and executive director of The Diversity Pledge Institute. He spent the majority of his career leading sports journalists in newsrooms across the country. He’s worked at ESPN.com, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and The Kansas City Star, to name a few. Larry is also a NewStart fellowship recipient studying Media Solutions and Innovation at West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media.

On Twitter: @ByLarryGraham

Eleanore Vega, Freelance journalist 👇

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Building (online) harassment-resistant newsrooms

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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To both recruit under-represented groups and encourage the coverage required to engage similar readers, newsrooms must build support mechanisms to combat one of our industry's greatest existential threats: online harassment and abuse.

Join this talk to learn how other media companies have created processes that both create early interventions and reactively support reporters facing trauma intended to intimidate their work.

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Approaching coverage of Indigenous communities and supporting your Indigenous colleagues

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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From covering the climate to debate about what is taught in schools about North America's history to rising political representation, Indigenous communities are being centered - but many times their voices are still filtered through a non-Native lens by the industry. Come hear from some of the field's best Native and Indigenous journalists who will discuss coverage, building your audiences among Native communities and recruitment and retention of Indigenous journalists.

Speakers

Dianna Hunt, ICT (formerly Indian Country Today) 👇

Dianna Hunt, senior editor at ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), is a longtime editor and investigative reporter. As metro editor of the Houston Chronicle, she directed and edited the Pulitzer Prize-finalist breaking news coverage of Hurricane Harvey. She also worked for the Dallas Morning News and other newspapers in Texas and Louisiana. She served three terms on the board of IRE and is currently a board member for the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

On Twitter: @DiannaHunt

Christine Trudeau, Indigenous Investigative Collective 👇

Christine Trudeau is the Managing Editor for the Indigenous Investigative Collective (IIC) project Covering Covid-19 in Indian Country, and serves on the Native American Journalists Association’s Board of Directors. Trudeau is a Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation citizen and is currently visiting faculty at the University of Montana School of Journalism.

On Twitter: @trudeaukwe

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Investigating inequities in education

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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Despite decades of integration efforts, discrimination and segregation persist in America’s educational systems -- divides that have deepened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how to examine disparities in schools and how to sharpen investigations to drive changes for more equitable educational opportunities.

Speakers

Nader Issa, Chicago Sun-Times 👇

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Annie Ma, The Associated Press 👇

Annie Ma is a reporter at The Associated Press, where she covers education for the Race and Ethnicity team. Her work focuses on inequality in our public education system and how race and class shape student outcomes, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. She previously covered Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools for the Charlotte Observer.

On Twitter: @anniema15

Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat 👇

Yesenia Robles is a reporter for Chalkbeat Colorado writing about districts with high numbers of multilingual students, and other equity issues. She has led efforts to engage Spanish speaking audiences including through a Spanish newsletter. Yesenia grew up in Denver, graduated from CU Boulder, and is fluent in Spanish. She previously worked for The Denver Post. You can reach her at yrobles@chalkbeat.org.

On Twitter: @YeseniaRobles

Samantha Smylie, Chalkbeat Chicago 👇

Samantha is currently the state education Reporter for Chalkbeat Chicago. She covers special education, teacher shortage/diversity issues, education policy and the state board of education. Prior to working at Chalkbeat, she worked for the Hyde Park Herald, was a reporter fellow for City Bureau and participated in ProPublica’s Data Institute. She's had bylines in Block Club Chicago, the Chicago Reader and South Side Weekly.

On Twitter: @sammie_smylie

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College press freedom 101

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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You might be being censored — and you don’t even know it. Content-based budget cuts? Restricted access to information? Need to go through the university PR machine to talk to anyone? How do you know if it is censorship and how to recognize if you are self-censoring.

Speakers

Kym Fox, Texas State University 👇

Kym Fox is a professor of practice and the journalism program coordinator at Texas State University. She teaches a variety of courses, including data journalism and journalism capstone. Fox spent 23 years as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Arizona and Texas. She is active in SPJ and IRE and currently serves on the IRE board’s college curriculum toolkit task force. She lives in the Texas Hill Country with an aging border collie and cantankerous rescue cat.

On Twitter: @kymfox

Paula Lavigne, ESPN 👇

Paula Lavigne is an investigative reporter for ESPN with a background in data journalism. Her award-winning reporting has exposed wrongdoing and forced accountability in the areas of sexual violence, athlete health, fan safety, charities, youth sports, criminal justice and university administration.

On Twitter: @pinepaula

Alexis Timko, Los Angeles Times 👇

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Get Access(ible): How editors can support journalists with disabilities

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 3 – 4 p.m. ET (60m)

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Twenty percent of the U.S. population has a disability; you would hardly know it from our newsrooms, where disability remains rare, closeted, or confined to heartbreaking investigative work. While we're all interested in thinking about the tactics and skills necessary to break open stories, any newsroom that isn't ready to include and support disabled journalists will miss the key stories and insights that only emerge when skilled reporters are invited to bring their whole range of experience to work. This panel invites insights about what newsrooms can do to attract, support, retain and learn from disabled journalists.

This session was planned in collaboration with National Center on Disability and Journalism. IRE retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions.

Speakers

Eric M. Garcia, The Independent 👇

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Kristin Gilger, ASU & National Center on Disability and Journalism 👇

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Betsy O'Donovan, Western Washington University 👇

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Sessions starting at 4:15 p.m. ET

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Closing reflection & networking

🕙 Friday (10/21) • 4:15 – 5:30 p.m. ET (75m)

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Let's come together and reflect on some of the lessons learned and connections made. Join IRE's Diana Fuentes and Francisco Vara-Orta, along with board members for some closing thoughts and one last round of networking with fellow attendees.

Speakers

Diana Fuentes, IRE & NICAR 👇

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Francisco Vara-Orta, IRE & NICAR 👇

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