IRE 2020 schedule

Marshall Allen investigates why we pay so much for health care in the United States and get so little in return. He has been with ProPublica since 2011 and is author of the upcoming book "Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win," coming spring 2021 from Penguin Random House. Before he was in journalism, Allen spent five years in full-time ministry, including three years in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a master’s degree in theology.

On Twitter: @marshall_allen

Rachana Pradhan, correspondent for Kaiser Health News, reports on a broad array of national health policy decisions and their effect on everyday Americans. A trusted source for clear, accurate reporting on the Affordable Care Act, health care entitlement programs and federal agencies, she has reported on both the policy and political dimensions of the biggest health care issues of the last decade. She started at Kaiser Health News in January 2020 after a five-year stint at POLITICO.

On Twitter: @rachanadixit

Michael Beckel is research director at Issue One, a bipartisan political reform group in Washington, D.C. For more than a decade, he worked as a reporter focusing on money in politics, with stints at the Center for Public Integrity, Center for Responsive Politics and Mother Jones. His expertise is regularly sought out by the media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, POLITICO and C-SPAN, among other outlets.

On Twitter: @mjbeckel

Jessica is a data and politics reporter at the Bangor Daily News covering state and federal government issues, including campaign finance and the 2020 elections. A Colorado native and 2019 graduate of Bowdoin College, she previously interned at NPR and the Center for Responsive Politics. She is based in Augusta, Maine.

On Twitter: @jsscppr

Denise Roth Barber has served as managing director of the National Institute on Money in Politics since 2010, after four years as research director and seven years as researcher. Prior, Barber was a community organizer for six years with the Northern Plains Resource Council in eastern/central Montana, and she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, Africa, from 1987-1990.

Derek Willis is a news applications developer at ProPublica, focusing on politics and elections. He previously worked as a developer and reporter at The New York Times, a database editor at The Washington Post and at the Center for Public Integrity and Congressional Quarterly.

On Twitter: @derekwillis

Jodie is an investigative reporter with NBC4 in Washington and joined the IRE Board in 2019. Her work has changed laws to limit special treatment for accused police officers, house stealing by sovereign citizens and misuse of real estate law to hold up home sales. Jodie has been honored by the FBI Director and the head of Georgia's police training agency. She's earned an IRE Award, an Alfred I. duPont Award, multiple Emmys and Murrows.

On Twitter: @jodienbc4

Kyle Iboshi is an investigative reporter with KGW in Portland, Oregon. Since joining KGW in 2000, Kyle has received awards from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Asian American Journalists Association. Kyle has participated in international reporting fellowships to Germany, Korea and Japan. He attended the Journalists Law School at Loyola Law School and was selected for the Kiplinger Fellowship.

On Twitter: @kyleiboshi

A.J. Lagoe is an investigative reporter for KARE11 in Minneapolis, Minn. His reporting regularly leads to criminal convictions, sparks legislative hearings, and prompts new federal and state laws. A.J. has earned many of journalism’s highest honors including the IRE, duPont-Columbia University, George Polk, National Headliner & Sigma Delta Chi awards.

On Twitter: @AJInvestigates

Neena Kapur is the security intelligence manager at The New York Times, where she works to proactively identify and defend against digital security threats targeting journalists and the news media industry. Previously, she worked as a threat intelligence analyst researching cybercriminal activity. Neena is passionate about finding accessible security solutions that cater to different people, groups and use cases.

On Twitter: @neenahyena

Kristen manages the security education program at The New York Times. Before joining The Times, she worked as an application security engineer and helped build secure coding education at email marketing platform Mailchimp. She is passionate about building accessible security education and resources for journalists around the world.

On Twitter: @dontclickonthat

Raney Aronson-Rath is the executive producer of FRONTLINE, PBS’s flagship investigative journalism series, and a leading voice on the future of journalism. Aronson-Rath oversees FRONTLINE’s acclaimed reporting on air and online and directs the series’ editorial vision, executive producing more than 20 documentaries each year on critical issues facing the country and world. Under her leadership, FRONTLINE has earned every major award in broadcast journalism, including Peabody Awards, Emmy Awards and the first Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Gold Baton awarded in a decade.

On Twitter: @raneyaronson

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Louise Kiernan is editor-in-chief of ProPublica Illinois, the first regional operation of ProPublica. She came to ProPublica from Northwestern University, where she was an associate professor of journalism and leader of the social justice and investigative journalism specialization. Prior to that, she worked for the Chicago Tribune for 18 years, serving as the newspaper’s enterprise editor, writing coach and a special projects team editor and reporter, among other roles.

On Twitter: @louisekiernan

Bethany Barnes is a reporter on the investigations team at the Tampa Bay Times. She came to the Times from The Oregonian, where her coverage of Portland Public Schools prompted the Education Writers Association to name Barnes the nation’s best education beat reporter in 2018. Barnes is part of the team that produces Local Matters, a weekly newsletter that showcases local investigative journalism.

On Twitter: @betsbarnes

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Maharaj is president and cofounder of the nonprofit Media Institute of the Caribbean and the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network, the region’s first and only nonprofit investigative multimedia news entity. Maharaj has worked in all forms of media, including television, radio, newspaper and film.

On Twitter: @#cijnnews

Rana Alsabbagh is senior editor for the Middle East and North Africa at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). She is co-founder of the award-winning Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), an OCCRP member center. She joined OCCRP in January 2020, working with Arab investigative journalists to produce high-quality, ambitious cross-border investigations in the largely autocratic and male-dominated region. Her career in journalism began in 1984.

On Twitter: @rana_sabbagh

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Julie’s work has prompted recalls, federal investigations and laws to protect consumers. It’s also been honored with several prestigious national awards and more than a dozen Emmy and Murrow Awards. After a decade as the Consumer-Investigative Reporter at KPIX in San Francisco, and contributing reporter for CBS News, Julie is now the Investigative Reporter/Anchor at KOVR (CBS) in the state’s capital where she’s specializing in “Instant Investigations” amid the pandemic.

On Twitter: @juliewattstv

Katie Wilcox is the I-Team Executive Producer at KPNX in Phoenix, formerly an investigative and data-journalist at KUSA in Denver. As a mulit-media journalist, her work has appeared in USA Today, NPR and Nightly News. She now leads an investigative unit in one of the largest (and hottest) cities in the country where her role is to provide a vision to the team: get stories done, make an impact and ensure the audience sees it. 2018 IRE award winner.

On Twitter: @katieawilcox

Kevin Collier covers cybersecurity, elections, privacy and disinformation at NBC News. He previously worked at CNN and BuzzFeed News.

On Twitter: @kevincollier

Emilia is research editor for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). She has taken part in cross-border projects such as ICIJ's Implant Files, Paradise Papers and the Pulitzer-winning Panama Papers investigation. She has been a professor at the Central University of Venezuela and a contributor for the Washington Post, the magazine Poder y Negocios, Venezuelan media El Universal, El Mundo and Armando.info, which she co-founded. She was previously the investigative reporting coordinator at IPYS Venezuela.

On Twitter: @ICIJorg

Ben Wieder is a data reporter on the investigative team at McClatchy's Washington bureau. He focuses largely on political influence and has previously reported for the Center for Public Integrity and Stateline.

On Twitter: @benbwieder

Nate Carlisle has been a reporter at the Salt Lake Tribune since 2005. Once the pandemic arrived, he left the polygamy beat to cover COVID-19 in Utah. He also teaches investigative journalism at the University of Utah. He previously worked at The Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

On Twitter: @natecarlisle

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Alexia is an investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity, where she covers labor and inequality. She previously worked at Vox, The Atlantic, National Journal and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

On Twitter: @AlexiaCampbell

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Kat Stafford is an award-winning journalist and the national race and ethnicity writer for the Associated Press. She was elected to a two-year term on IRE's Board of Directors in 2020 and is the chair of IRE's Member Services Committee. Prior to the AP, she was an investigative journalist at the Detroit Free Press, where her coverage led to congressional inquiries, a federal audit, criminal probes and city legislation.

On Twitter: @kat__stafford

Andrea Arzaba is Spanish editor at the Global Investigative Journalism Network. As a journalist and media professional, Andrea has dedicated her life to documenting the stories of people in Latin America and Latinx communities in the United States.

On Twitter: @andrea_arzaba

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David E. Kaplan is executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, which represents 184 member organizations in 77 countries. He oversees staff in 14 countries working to strengthen investigative journalism. He has served as director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and chief investigative correspondent for U.S. News & World Report. Among his 25+ awards are four IRE awards, including three medals.

On Twitter: @kaplandave

Benon Herbert Oluka is a Ugandan multimedia journalist, currently working as Africa editor for the Global Investigative Journalism Network. He's also a member of the African Investigative Publishing Collective. His work has been recognised in Africa as winner of the 2008 Akintola Fatoyinbo Africa Education Journalism Award (English), the 2011 CNN-MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Award (Tourism category) and the Thomson Reuters’ 2011 Niall FitzGerald Prize for Young African Journalists.

On Twitter: @benon_oluka

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Marthe Rubio is French editor for the Global Investigative Journalism Network. She specializes in data journalism and has worked on the La Nación (Argentina) data team. She also worked as a freelancer and project leader and has collaborated with Mediapart, Le Figaro, El Mundo and Libération.

On Twitter: @martherubio

Olga Simanovych, a native of Ukraine, has more than 13 years of television experience as a journalist, screenwriter and managing editor. Seven of those years were spent as a TV news reporter for the Vikna-Novyny program on STB, where she specialized in politics, environment, human rights and medicine. From 2011 to 2016, she was a media trainer with different nonprofit organizations and participated in SCOOP‘s international investigations.

On Twitter: @gijnRu

Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American journalist and filmmaker. Her award-winning film, "The Feeling of Being Watched," investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in her Muslim community, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on PBS. Assia received the 2020 Livingston Award for national reporting and is a Co-Creation Journalism Fellow the MIT Open Documentary Lab, where she is iterating on an AI-fueled sequel to her film.

On Twitter: @assuss

Lynette Clemetson is director of Wallace House, the Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards. She was Director of Strategy and New Initiatives at NPR, focused on developing new products and audiences across platforms. She spent the first half of her career as a reporter, first for Newsweek as an Asia correspondent based in Hong Kong and a national correspondent based in Washington, D.C., then as a domestic correspondent for The New York Times.

On Twitter: @lclemetson

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Journalist, entrepreneur and adventurer with 25 years of experience in storytelling. She is co-founder of Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism, the Caribbean’s only nonprofit investigative journalism news organization. She led the award-winning investigation on the underreported death toll of hurricane Maria.

On Twitter: @omayasosa

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Liz is the data editor at Kaiser Health News (KHN) and specializes in data analysis and reporting for the KHN enterprise team. She came from Investigative Reporters & Editors, where she spent four years training and supporting data journalists around the world as director of the NICAR Data Library. Previously, she worked as a data reporter on health and the environment for the Center for Public Integrity. She has a master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism.

On Twitter: @eklucas

Shefali Luthra covers women and health care at The 19th*, a nonprofit newsroom focused on women, politics and policy. Previously, she was a correspondent at Kaiser Health News, where she spent six years reporting on health policy. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post and The Guardian.

On Twitter: @shefalil

Kathleen McGrory is the deputy investigations editor at the Tampa Bay Times. Her series on a Johns Hopkins children’s hospital unearthed an alarming rate of patient fatalities and led to the resignation of six top hospital officials. It was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and won the George Polk Award for Local Reporting and an IRE award. Before joining the Times in 2015, Kathleen spent nine years at the Miami Herald.

On Twitter: @kmcgrory

Amanda Bennett is former director of Voice of America, which provides radio, television and digital content in 45 languages to 236.8 million people weekly. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, investigative journalist and editor, she served at Bloomberg News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader and The Oregonian. She was a Wall Street Journal reporter and editor for 23 years, including roles as Beijing correspondent and Atlanta bureau chief.

On Twitter: @abennett

Dr. Agnes Callamard is the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. She directs Columbia Global Freedom of Expression and is a special adviser to Columbia University's president. She led ARTICLE 19 and was Chef de Cabinet for the Secretary General of Amnesty International. She has led human rights investigations in over 30 countries. As UN Special Rapporteur, she investigated the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

On Twitter: @AgnesCallamard

Angela Greiling Keane is POLITICO's editorial director of states and Canada. She joined POLITICO in 2016 and previously was deputy states editor and deputy technology editor. She was the 2013 National Press Club president and is currently president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute. She previously worked at Bloomberg News, covering the Obama White House, auto and railroad policy and freight transportation companies.

On Twitter: @agreilingkeane

Nabiha Syed is president of The Markup, a new investigative journalism startup that explores how powerful actors use technology to reshape society. She has been described as “one of the best emerging free speech lawyers” by Forbes magazine.

On Twitter: @nabihasyed

Sasha Buchert is a senior attorney in the Washington, D.C., office of Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest organization dedicated to advancing the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and individuals living with HIV.

On Twitter: @sashabuchert

Jen Christensen is a writer and producer for CNN's medical unit, and she serves as the vice president for print/digital for NLGJA, The Association of LGBTQ Journalists.

On Twitter: @jechristensen

Dr. Meyer received a Ph.D. in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University. In several highly cited papers, Dr. Meyer has developed a model of minority stress. The model has guided his and other investigators’ population research on LGBT health disparities by identifying the processes by which social stressors impact health and describing the harm to LGBT people from prejudice and stigma. Dr. Meyer is principal investigator of two U.S. studies of LGBT individuals.

On Twitter: @ilanmeyer

Amanda Peacher is a nationally recognized public radio journalist and host of the podcast LOCKED ("a disturbing crime, a desperate act, and how one case could change the way prisons treat some transgender inmates"). Her work has been honored with a national Edward R. Murrow award, two Gracie awards and the Al Neuharth award for innovation in investigative journalism. She splits her time between San Diego and Boise, Idaho, where she works with the Mountain West News Bureau.

On Twitter: @amandapeacher

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Rawan Damen is ARIJ (Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism) director general, a filmmaker and media consultant. She has over 20 years of experience in media coaching and management, in addition to her TV and digital production career. She produced and directed more than 30 hours of TV documentaries and investigations, translated to multiple languages.

On Twitter: @RawanDamen

Hoda Osman is executive editor at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ). She is a New York-based journalist and journalism trainer. Hoda led numerous investigative journalism workshops and online courses for reporters from around the world with a focus on Arab journalists. She previously worked at ABC News' Investigative Unit, as consultant for CBS News' Investigative Unit, as New York correspondent for France 24 and with APTN in Cairo before moving to the U.S.

Vicky Nguyen is the investigative and consumer correspondent for NBC News. Her reports can be seen on TODAY, Nightly News with Lester Holt, MSNBC and NBCnews.com. She is proud to be a two-time IRE Award finalist.

On Twitter: @vickynguyentv

Ted is the investigative reporter at ABC13 KTRK Houston where he is celebrating his 19th year. He‘s only been in his office once since March due to COVID. He misses all of you.

On Twitter: @Tedabc13

Lee Zurik is an evening news anchor and chief investigative reporter at WVUE-TV in New Orleans and director of investigations at Gray Television and Investigate TV. Lee has been honored with many of journalism’s top awards including the Peabody, duPont, and IRE Medal. Before Hurricane Katrina, Lee was a sports anchor/reporter. He taught himself to be an investigative reporter by reading IRE resources (books and tipsheets) and attending IRE conferences.

On Twitter: @leezurik

Kim Clark is an assistant director of the Education Writers Association, where she specializes in training journalists on higher education coverage. Previously, she spent more than 30 years as a staff reporter at newspapers and magazines. She spent the last decade of her career covering higher education at US News & World Report and Money magazines, where she won an EWA award for investigative reporting and was part of a team that won a Gerald Loeb Award.

On Twitter: @kclarkcollege

Tawnell Hobbs is the national K-12 education reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She has worked at the Journal since July 2016, and before that she was an education reporter at The Dallas Morning News. Tawnell also served in the United States Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard for a combined total of about 10 years. She also has taught computer-assisted reporting at the university level.

On Twitter: @tawnell

Krista Torralva has been an education reporter at the San Antonio Express-News since 2018. Previously, she was a courts and crime reporter at the Orlando Sentinel and Corpus Christi Caller-Times, where she co-led a domestic violence series that won numerous state and national awards. Krista took to solutions journalism, focusing especially on programs that tackled child trauma and social emotional learning, topics she remains passionate about on the education beat.

On Twitter: @KMTorralva

Jeff Ernsthausen is a data reporter at ProPublica. He previously worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a data reporter on the investigative team. Before getting into journalism, he was a financial and economic analyst for the Federal Reserve.

On Twitter: @jeffernsthausen

Danielle McLean is a staff reporter at the Chronicle for Higher Education writing about the real-world impact of federal higher education policies. Danielle was previously an investigative reporter at ThinkProgress covering voter suppression, federal housing and poverty policies, and corruption. She also worked as an investigative reporter at the Bangor Daily News and is a former chairperson of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Freedom of Information Committee.

On Twitter: @DanielleBMcLean

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Craig Newmark is a web pioneer, philanthropist and advocate who founded the online classified ads service craigslist. Newmark works to support and connect people and drive broad civic engagement. In 2016, he founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies to advance people and grassroots organizations that are "getting stuff done" in areas that include trustworthy journalism and the information ecosystem, voter protection, women in technology, and veterans & military families.

On Twitter: @craignewmark

Amal Ahmed is a reporter at the Texas Observer based in North Texas. She reports on climate and the environment with a focus on justice and equity. Previously, she was a fact-checker at Texas Monthly. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets, including The Atlantic, CityLab and Popular Science.

On Twitter: @amalykinz

Naveena Sadasivam is a staff writer covering the environment, energy and climate change at Grist. She previously covered environmental issues at the Texas Observer, InsideClimate News and ProPublica. At ProPublica, she was part of a team that reported on the water woes of the West, a project that was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting.

On Twitter: @NaveenaSivam

Brantley is co-host of the NPR podcast White Lies, which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting. His other projects include working as the creative producer of Whitman, Alabama, and writing "The Perfect Fruit," a book about the origin of the pluot. Brantley also co-founded the Desert Island Supply Co., a creative writing program for kids in Birmingham, and he is a lecturer in journalism at the University of Alabama.

On Twitter: @chipbrantley

Ike Sriskandarajah is an Emmy award-winning radio reporter/producer for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Ike was a narrative audio producer at The New York Times podcast “The Daily” and once tracked down the kids who appear on "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." He hails from Wisconsin and is based in New York City with his family.

On Twitter: @RadioIke

Kameel Stanley is a podcaster, journalist, storyteller and everyone’s favorite auntie. She’s currently a national correspondent at USA TODAY and was the senior producer of the organization’s critically acclaimed investigative podcast The City. Previously, she co-hosted and produced We Live Here, a podcast about race and class from St. Louis Public Radio and PRX. And before that, she was a beat reporter at the Tampa Bay Times for several years. She is based in St. Louis.

On Twitter: @cornandpotatoes

Amy Pyle is USA TODAY's national investigations editor, guiding multi-platform projects created by a team of reporters based across the country in collaboration with other teams, including reporters and editors around the Gannett network. Previously, Amy was editor-in-chief at The Center for Investigative Reporting, where she helped launch the successful Reveal radio show/podcast and oversaw numerous award-winning projects.

On Twitter: @amy_pyle

Claudia Vargas is an investigative reporter for NBC10 and Telemundo62 in Philadelphia, making the switch from print to broadcast earlier this year. Vargas spent the past 10 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, most recently as an investigative reporter.

On Twitter: @ByClaudiaVargas

Vanessa de la Torre is executive editor of the New England News Collaborative, a partnership of 10 public media stations. Previously, she was supervising producer for a regional Emmy-winning TV special on a 2019 fatal police shooting. A former newspaper reporter, Vanessa was part of the Hartford Courant team that was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. She's a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford’s Graduate Program in Journalism.

On Twitter: @vdelatorre

Nate Jones is the FOIA director for The Washington Post, where he works with reporters to target documents to request, appeal and sue for. He gives FOIA training sessions and advises reporters on how to write and refine requests, navigate delays and overredactions and overcome other bureaucratic resistance. He previously was the director of the FOIA Project for the National Security Archive and has served two terms on the federal FOIA Advisory Committee.

On Twitter: @FOIANate

Ron Nixon is global investigations editor at The Associated Press based in Washington, D.C. Nixon manages a team of nearly 20 investigative reporters based in Brussels, Cairo, Washington and several cities around the country. Nixon was previously the homeland security correspondent for The New York Times, where he worked for nearly 14 years. He is the author of “Selling Apartheid: Apartheid South Africa’s Global Propaganda War” and co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society.

On Twitter: @nixonron

Cheryl W. Thompson is IRE board president and an investigative correspondent for NPR. Prior to joining NPR, she spent 22 years at The Washington Post. Her investigations include local political corruption, cops killed by guns, witnesses killed for cooperating with police, people who died after being Tasered by police and the unsolved murders of six Black girls nearly 50 years ago. Her awards include a shared Pulitzer, an Emmy, IRE and two NABJ awards.

On Twitter: @cherylwt

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Nancy is a general assignment reporter at WSMV in Nashville. Her interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made international news in October, earning praise for her “unflinching follow-up questions." Amons’s prior investigations sent an acting sheriff and a sitting judge to federal prison. Her proudest achievement in her 40-year career as a reporter is the IRE award.

On Twitter: @WSMVNancyAmons

WUSA9 Chief Investigative Reporter Eric Flack works in his hometown of Washington, D.C. His reporting has uncovered police cover-ups and abuse of power, often focusing on police overreach in communities of color. On 9/11/2001 Eric found himself in New York City during the 9/11 attack on America. He raced to the World Trade Center arriving moments before the first tower fell. He has more than two decades of experience in local news.

On Twitter: @EricFlackTV

Joel Grover has been an investigative reporter for NBC4 Los Angeles since 2003. He is nationally known for his undercover investigations and recently has been covering homelessness and the pandemic as part of his beat. He has won nearly every major award for investigative reporting, including the Peabody, the DuPont-Columbia, six national Edward R. Murrow Awards, and two IRE Medals.

On Twitter: @joelnbcla

Ari Berman is a senior reporter at Mother Jones, covering voting rights, and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He’s the author of "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America" and "Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics." He won a 2017 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.

On Twitter: @AriBerman

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Carrie Levine has covered money in politics and democracy issues for the Center for Public Integrity since October 2014. She previously was research director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. She has also been a reporter and associate editor for The National Law Journal, and she reported for the Charlotte Observer and two Massachusetts newspapers. She is a graduate of Boston University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

On Twitter: @levinecarrie

Alexa Ura is an associate editor and reporter at The Texas Tribune. As the Tribune’s demographics reporter, she covers the intersection between politics and race with an emphasis on the state’s surging Hispanic population. She also covers voting rights issues for the Tribune.

On Twitter: @alexazura

Dalton Bennett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and researcher with the investigations unit of The Washington Post. Since joining The Post in 2016, he has examined foreign influence campaigns, police misconduct and most recently political appointees. Before joining The Post, Bennett worked for The Associated Press, based in Berlin, Dubai, Athens and Bishkek, covering a range of topics from conflict to a charcoal-smuggling network linked to Al-Shabab.

On Twitter: @ddaltonbennett

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The Cofounder, CEO, and Executive Editor of Rappler.com, a leading online news organization in the Philippines. Maria has been honored worldwide for her courageous and bold work fighting disinformation, “fake news” and attempts to silence the free press. In 2018, she was named Time magazine "Person of the Year." She has been a journalist in Asia for more than 30 years. Maria speaks to organizations of all kinds on freedom of the press and corporate governance. Recently, a Manila court convicted Maria of cyber libel carrying a jail term of up to six years.

On Twitter: @mariaressa

Julián Aguilar reports on politics and border affairs from the Texas-Mexico border with a focus on immigration reform and enforcement, voter ID, international trade, border security and the drug trade.

On Twitter: @nachoaguilar

Valeria Fernández is an investigative independent journalist and filmmaker focused on amplifying voices of immigrant communities. She collaborates with Latino USA, Radio Bilingue, The Guardian, California Sunday Magazine and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. She is a finalist for investigative reporting on the 2020 James Beard Award. In 2018, the Heising-Simons Foundation honored Fernández with the American Mosaic Journalism Prize.

On Twitter: @valfernandez

Jude Joffe-Block has reported on immigration and border issues for over a decade for outlets that include The Guardian, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, NPR and The World. In July 2020, she joined The Associated Press as a reporter and editor on its news verification team.

On Twitter: @judejoffeblock

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Ellen Gabler is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. Before joining The Times in 2017, she worked at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a reporter and deputy investigations editor. She is a former IRE board member and graduate of Emory University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

On Twitter: @egabler

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Bernice Yeung is a reporter for ProPublica, where she covers labor and employment. Her book, "In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers" (The New Press, 2018), was honored with the 2019 PEN America/John Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She was a 2015-2016 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.

On Twitter: @bmyeung

Dave Maass is a senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation specializing in the intersection of criminal justice and technology. He also leads the Atlas of Surveillance project in partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism. Prior to joining EFF, Dave worked as an investigative reporter at alternative newsweeklies across the American Southwest.

On Twitter: @maassive

Schwartz is an award-winning independent journalist based in northern Vermont. He worked for five years at daily newspapers out west and back east and before the pandemic struck was launching a freelance career writing about the environment for magazines. Now, Schwartz is retooling for the time in between then and when this will be over. He holds a master's from the Missouri School of Journalism.

On Twitter: @VTDanSchwartz

For more than 15 years, Erin Siegal McIntyre has worked as a cross-platform investigative journalist, and she was based on the border in Tijuana, Mexico, for a decade. Her book “Finding Fernanda” was the basis for an hour-long CBS investigation that won a 2015 Emmy, and her work has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, LatinoUSA and many other outlets. As of July 2020, she also teaches journalism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

On Twitter: @ESMcIntye

Aaricka Washington is an education reporter based in Austin, Texas. Most recently, she covered news in 15 school districts in Central Texas as the K-12 education reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. Before working at the Statesman, she interned at The Hechinger Report. She is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. In her past life, she served as a Teach for America corps member and an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer.

On Twitter: @aarickawash

As anchor and executive producer of the Peabody Award-winning show Latino USA, distributed by NPR, and co-host of Futuro Media’s award-winning political podcast In The Thick, Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad.

Ana Ley is a reporter for The Virginian-Pilot. She's also worked at newspapers in Las Vegas, San Antonio and the Texas-Mexico border. A proud immigrant, her career spans 12 years and a mix of work that includes breaking news, features and investigations that has aimed to defend, chronicle and celebrate America’s marginalized communities. In 2017, her coverage of a tunnel operator’s predatory tolling practices led to a CEO’s demotion and refunds of up to $7,000 for hundreds of people.

On Twitter: @La__Ley

Rebecca Tan is a writer and reporter at the Washington Post, where she covers local government. She has written extensively about the impact of coronavirus in the D.C. metro area, focusing on the disproportionate impact on nursing homes and underserved communities. She reported on the historic protests in Washington following the killing of George Floyd and contributed to the Post’s coverage of back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in 2019.

On Twitter: @rebtanhs

Nydia Han is an Emmy-winning journalist and creator of the nationally recognized documentary series #ThisIsAmerica, a look at racism and the diverse American experience. Nydia has focused her career on investigative/solutions journalism aimed at protecting consumers and holding businesses and government agencies accountable. Nydia earned her B.S. in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

On Twitter: @nydia_han

Jeremy has been in the television news industry since the late 1990s. His most recent investigations focused on abandoned elderly patients at hospitals, which prompted legislative change in Colorado. IRE also recently honored Jeremy with the Don Bolles Medal for his coverage of white supremacy and hate groups.

On Twitter: @jeremyjojola

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Ellis Simani is a data reporter at ProPublica. Before joining ProPublica, he was a Metpro fellow on the Los Angeles Times’ data visualization desk. There, he covered a variety of topics, ranging from visualizing environmental issues along California’s coast to investigating the shortcomings of the Census Bureau’s racial categories.

On Twitter: @emsimani

Moiz Syed is a journalist, designer and developer on ProPublica's news apps team, covering the federal government. Previously he worked at The Intercept as a data journalist.

On Twitter: @moizsyed

Lisa Gartner is an investigative reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Most recently, her investigation into child abuse at the nation's oldest reform school led Pennsylvania to shut down the campus and overhaul the state's juvenile justice system. Prior to joining The Inquirer in 2018, Gartner was an enterprise reporter for the Tampa Bay Times. She has been the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, the IRE Medal and other honors.

On Twitter: @lisagartner

Monica Rhor is an award-winning editorial writer and columnist with the Houston Chronicle's editorial board. She has also been a staff writer for the Associated Press, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Orange County Register. Monica, who was born in Ecuador, is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), the National Association of Black Journalists and IRE. She has served as a mentor on student projects for NAHJ, NABJ and UNITY and taught high school journalism and English.

On Twitter: @monicarhor

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Ayesha Rascoe is a White House reporter for NPR. In her current role, she covers breaking news and policy developments from the White House. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. Prior to joining NPR, Rascoe covered the White House for Reuters, chronicling President Barack Obama's final year in office. She graduated from Howard University in 2007 with a B.A. in journalism.

On Twitter: @ayesharascoe

John D. Harden is a database reporter for The Washington Post. He uses data to investigate and uncover disparities in areas like business, schools, health and public safety. He joined the Post in 2018 after leaving the Houston Chronicle.

On Twitter: @Jdharden

Angelina Mosher Salazar has told stories from the jungles of Costa Rica, the mountains of Lebanon and the chaos of Cairo. Currently, she is a reporter at Milwaukee’s NPR station, where she has reported on everything from Milwaukee’s underground salsa scene to protests in Kenosha. Her work has aired on various NPR programs including LatinoUSA and All Things Considered. Angelina is a 2019 IRE Diversity Fellow and proud member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

On Twitter: @angelinamosher

Carrie Levine has covered money in politics and democracy issues for the Center for Public Integrity since October 2014. She previously was research director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. She has also been a reporter and associate editor for The National Law Journal, and she reported for the Charlotte Observer and two Massachusetts newspapers. She is a graduate of Boston University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

On Twitter: @levinecarrie

Robert is the research director at Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW), a watchdog group that promotes transparency and government ethics. Prior to joining CREW, Robert created OpenSecrets.org's program tracking the financial networks of dark money groups. In 2014, he won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for a series of investigative reports tracking dark money.

On Twitter: @RobertMaguire_

Anna Massoglia is a researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics. She runs OpenSecrets' Dark Money project, tracks digital and political advertising, investigates foreign influence and helped launch the Foreign Lobby Watch project. Anna received her J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia School of Law in 2015 and holds dual B.A. degrees from North Carolina State University. She previously worked as an editor and research analyst at Bloomberg Tax.

On Twitter: @annalecta

Robert Barba is spot news editor for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. His team provides professional clients with news and insights on publicly traded companies. The team also provides real-time coverage for the Journal. Robert previously covered the banking industry for American Banker and Bankrate. Robert has served on the board of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing since 2015.

On Twitter: @Barbawire

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Stacy Fernández is a journalist who is passionate about reporting on marginalized communities. She covers breaking news and, more recently, education over at The Texas Tribune, a statewide nonprofit newsroom focused on politics and policy. She’s currently based in Austin,Texas, but is originally from Yonkers, New York (right outside the Bronx). Outside of reporting she enjoys listening to the latest author-narrated audiobook and painting portraits.

On Twitter: @StacyFernandezB

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Josh Hinkle is KXAN’s director of investigations & innovation, leading the station’s duPont and IRE Award-winning investigative team on multiple platforms. He also leads KXAN’s political coverage as the executive producer and host of “State of Texas,” a weekly program focused on the Texas Legislature and elections, seen in 14 markets statewide.

On Twitter: @hinklej

Kat Stafford is an award-winning journalist and the national race and ethnicity writer for the Associated Press. She was elected to a two-year term on IRE's Board of Directors in 2020 and is the chair of IRE's Member Services Committee. Prior to the AP, she was an investigative journalist at the Detroit Free Press, where her coverage led to congressional inquiries, a federal audit, criminal probes and city legislation.

On Twitter: @kat__stafford

Jill Geisler is Bill Plante Chair in Leadership and Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago. She leads the Freedom Forum's Power Shift Project, guiding newsrooms to Workplace Integrity: environments free of harassment, discrimination and incivility and filled with opportunity, especially for those who have traditionally been denied it. A veteran newsroom leader, author and educator, she teaches and coaches in newsrooms worldwide.

On Twitter: @JillGeisler

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Ann Choi is THE CITY’s senior data reporter. She has worked as a data and investigative reporter for Newsday and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Her undercover investigation on real estate agents' discriminatory practices earned a George Polk and Peabody award. She has taught data journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University New York, Ohio University and St. Joseph's College. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin after emigrating from South Korea.

On Twitter: @annjychoi

Marissa Evans is the social issues reporter for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where she covers housing, race and equity issues. She was previously the health and human services reporter with the Texas Tribune, where she won an ONA Online Journalism Award in 2018 for her reporting on maternal mortality. Her reporting has appeared in Medium, Oprah Magazine, The Atlantic, Civil Eats, The Washington Post, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Kaiser Health News.

On Twitter: @marissaaevans

Willoughby Mariano is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an investigative reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She previously worked at the Orlando Sentinel. Past honors include a National Headliner Award in investigative journalism and the Atlanta Press Club’s award for civil and human rights reporting. Mariano is past president of the Asian American Journalists Association’s Atlanta chapter and chaired the national organization’s 2019 convention.

On Twitter: @wmariano

Jessica Williams covers politics and government for The Times Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, with a focus on housing, public transit and economic development. She has spent 10 years covering news in her native New Orleans. She has been recognized by the Press Club of New Orleans, the national Edward R. Murrow Awards and other professional organizations.

On Twitter: @jwilliamsNOLA

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Anna Flagg is The Marshall Project's senior data reporter, covering criminal justice topics including immigration, crime, race, policing and incarceration. Her work has been recognized by the Global Editors Network’s Data Journalism Awards, the Society of News Design and the Information is Beautiful Awards, and she was a finalist for a 2019 Deadline Club Award.

On Twitter: @annaflagg

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Steve Eder reports on the government under President Trump, as well as his personal businesses, for The New York Times. He covered the 2016 campaign and has previously investigated a range of topics, such as baseball doping, hedge funds and spouses spying on each other. He previously reported for The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and The Toledo Blade. He was part of a New York Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for investigating sexual harassment in 2018.

On Twitter: @steveeder

Sandra Fish is an independent data journalist specializing in politics for the Colorado Sun and Colorado News Collaborative. She is also a 2020 First Draft News fellow examining disinformation and a contract editor with OpenSecrets.

On Twitter: @fishnette

Lulu Ramadan is an investigative reporter at The Palm Beach Post and a partner in ProPublica's 2020 Local Reporting Network. She has reported on major breaking news events, local government and voter access in Florida.

On Twitter: @luluramadan

Mike Hixenbaugh is a national investigative reporter for NBC News based in Houston. Prior to moving to NBC in 2019, his reporting at the Houston Chronicle in partnership with ProPublica exposed deadly mistakes at a major heart transplant program, triggering reforms to improve patient safety. He graduated from the University of Akron in 2007 before going to work at newspapers in Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia. Married. Dad to four young kids. Often very tired.

On Twitter: @Mike_Hixenbaugh

Donovan Slack serves on the national enterprise and investigations team at USA TODAY. Her coverage of the Department of Veterans Affairs has exposed critical lapses in medical care at agency hospitals, including the VA hiding shoddy care, hiring medical workers with revoked licenses and keeping secret quality data for years. Her work led to the retirement of a VA inspector general, the replacement of hospital leaders and the passage of federal laws.

On Twitter: @DonovanSlack

Alison Young is the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting and Washington Program director for the Missouri School of Journalism. She previously spent 10 years at USA TODAY, where her most recent series (maternal.usatoday.com) revealed the role of substandard hospital care in maternal deaths. She is a past president of IRE’s board. Reporting honors include three Gerald Loeb Awards, three Scripps Howard Awards and a DuPont-Columbia Award.

On Twitter: @alisonannyoung

Ziva Branstetter is The Washington Post’s corporate accountability editor, running a team focused on investigating corporate behavior. She was previously an editor at Reveal; founder of The Frontier, an Oklahoma investigative nonprofit; and an editor and reporter at the Tulsa World, where she was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for an investigation into how Oklahoma carried out executions. She previously served three terms on the IRE Board.

On Twitter: @zivabranstetter

Will Evans is a reporter for Reveal covering workplace issues.

On Twitter: @willCIR

Cheryl W. Thompson is IRE board president and an investigative correspondent for NPR. Prior to joining NPR, she spent 22 years at The Washington Post. Her investigations include local political corruption, cops killed by guns, witnesses killed for cooperating with police, people who died after being Tasered by police and the unsolved murders of six Black girls nearly 50 years ago. Her awards include a shared Pulitzer, an Emmy, IRE and two NABJ awards.

On Twitter: @cherylwt

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Jane Lytvynenko is an award-winning reporter at BuzzFeed News, where she focuses on disinformation, cybersecurity and online investigations. Jane has uncovered social media manipulation campaigns associated with state actors, financially-motivated bad actors spreading disinformation and key data breaches. Her work also brings accessible fact-checking to wide audiences during times of crisis. Jane is from Kyiv, Ukraine, and currently resides in Toronto, Canada.

On Twitter: @janelytv

Chris helps lead news partnerships for Facebook's CrowdTangle team, working with top U.S. and European publishers as well as investigative outlets. Through a 10-year career working in digital media, Chris has helped found upstart media companies, consulted on strategy with major global brands and engaged with publishers large and small as they seek to better understand data and tactics on social media. Chris is originally from Kentucky.

On Twitter: @CBMilez

Paul Overberg is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and a member of its investigative team. He worked on USA TODAY’s news data team for many years and led its demographic coverage. He has taught at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and served as a senior fellow for the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California.

On Twitter: @poverberg

Peebles is a data specialist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and has been a newspaper reporter or editor for 25 years. Peebles previously worked at The (Nashville) Tennessean, The Washington (D.C.) Examiner and nonprofit Texas Watchdog.

On Twitter: @jpeebles

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Matt Goldberg is the vice president of content strategy for NBC Owned Television Stations, where he leads the new venture NBCLX. He has been with NBC for 17 years, previously working as the assistant news director at KNBC in Los Angeles and at NBC Bay Area. Prior to moving into news management, Matt was an investigative producer in local TV. Matt served on the IRE board for six years and was board president from 2016-18.

On Twitter: @MattGoldbergNBC

John is an investigative reporter and data journalist whose work was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting in 2017 and won the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2020. He is director of data journalism for ABC Owned Television Stations, leading investigations across eight local newsrooms from New York to Los Angeles, and with ABC News. He previously founded and directed USA TODAY Network's nationwide data and investigations team.

On Twitter: @jkelly3rd

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Astead Herndon is a national politics reporter at The New York Times and a political analyst for CNN. Before joining The New York Times in 2018, Herndon held several reporter positions at The Boston Globe. Most recently, he was a national politics reporter, covering the Trump White House. He also spent time as a City Hall reporter and a general assignment Metro reporter. Herndon is from the Chicago suburbs and graduated from Marquette University.

On Twitter: @AsteadWesley

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Brittany Britto reports for the Houston Chronicle, where she covers higher education and issues pertaining to colleges in the Houston region. Previously, she reported for The Baltimore Sun, where she was recognized for her cultural coverage and features reporting.

On Twitter: @brittanybritto

Jon Marcus is higher-education editor at The Hechinger Report and also writes for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Wired, Medium.com and other magazines, newspapers and websites. Marcus holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bates College. Marcus attended Oxford University and is a nonresident fellow this year at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs.

On Twitter: @JonMarcusBoston

Nicole Carr is an investigative reporter with WSB in Atlanta. Much of Nicole's recent work has focused on governmental affairs and social justice. She's been honored with numerous regional Emmy awards and nominations and a 2012 fellowship through the International Center for Journalists. She is a member of IRE, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Atlanta Press Club and the Ida B. Wells Society. Nicole is also a wife, a mother of three young children and a new virtual learning specialist (smile).

On Twitter: @NicoleCarrWSB

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More than 35 years ago, Stephen began as a general assignment reporter in Roanoke, Virginia. Since then he’s covered everything from shuttle launches to hurricanes, presidents to popes. A founding member of NBC Bay Area’s 15-member investigative unit, he’s won a Peabody, a duPont, a national SPJ award, three Murrows and six AP awards, 18 regional Emmys and a national Emmy nomination. He's taught at IRE for more than a decade. His work has changed laws and lives. www.stephenstock.tv

On Twitter: @StephenStockTV

Barned-Smith, who goes by "Sinjin," covers Houston's public safety agencies and the occasional natural disaster. He has written about in-custody jail deaths, corrupt police officers and a host of other issues since moving to Texas six years ago.

On Twitter: @stjbs

CBS2 Chicago investigative reporter Dave Savini's ongoing series, "Unwarranted," exposed a disturbing pattern of wrong police raids. The 50-part series revealed repeated failures of search warrant and body camera policies and showed the traumatic impact these bad raids have on children. It led to a new law and new Chicago Police Department policies. "Unwarranted" won a Peabody Award and an IRE Award this year. Savini's other awards include a national Murrow, an Alfred I. duPont and 18 Emmys.

On Twitter: @davesavinicbs2

MaryJo Webster has been a data journalist for about 20 years. She has been at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis since 2015. Prior stints include the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Digital First Media, USA Today, the Center for Public Integrity and Investigative Reporters & Editors. She started her career as a beat reporter at small papers in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

On Twitter: @MaryJoWebster

Simone Weichselbaum is a staff writer who focuses on issues pertaining to federal law enforcement and local policing. She is also The Marshall Project’s co-chair of diversity and inclusion. Weichselbaum has spent more than 15 years reporting on a variety of urban criminal justice systems, previously working as a staff writer for the New York Daily News and the Philadelphia Daily News. She holds a graduate degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.

On Twitter: @simonejwei

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Laura Edelson is a PhD candidate in computer science at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. Laura studies online political communication and develops methods to identify inauthentic content and activity. Her research has powered reporting on social media ad spending in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Atlantic. Prior to her current time in academia, Laura was a software engineer for Palantir and Factset.

Erika Franklin Fowler is professor of government at Wesleyan University and co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks and analyzes political advertising in real time during elections. She is also co-author of "Political Advertising in the United States."

On Twitter: @efranklinfowler

Jeremy Merrill is an investigative data journalist. He has previously worked for Quartz, ProPublica and The New York Times.

Nancy Watzman is director of Lynx LLC, based in Denver, Colorado. She is a strategist specializing in developing and managing collaborations and partnerships to support journalists, technologists, and researchers in countering online dis- and mis-information, conducting investigations, and increasing newsroom sustainability. Her current clients include First Draft News and Democracy Fund.

On Twitter: @nwatzman

Anita Li is a media strategist and consultant with a decade of experience on both the editorial and business sides of journalism at outlets across North America. She is also a journalism professor in Toronto and at the City University of New York, as well as a member of the Online News Association’s board of directors. In late 2018, Anita co-founded Canadian Journalists of Colour, a rapidly growing network of BIPOC media-makers in Canada.

On Twitter: @neeeda

Mauricio Peña covers the South and West Sides of Chicago at Block Club Chicago. He previously worked as an associate digital editor at Chicago magazine. He also worked as breaking news reporter at DNAinfo and as an investigative reporter covering immigration and equality at the Desert Sun for the USA Today Network.

On Twitter: @mauriciopena

Rios is an Emmy-nominated Chilean journalist living in New York City and working as an audience and communities strategist for media companies. He has experience in agile R&D (Documented, Axios, Quartz and Ciper Chile) and content creation (CNN Chile, Vice, BBC and Revista Sábado). His main areas of interest are audience research and product development.

On Twitter: @nicorios

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Ziva Branstetter is The Washington Post’s corporate accountability editor, running a team focused on investigating corporate behavior. She was previously an editor at Reveal; founder of The Frontier, an Oklahoma investigative nonprofit; and an editor and reporter at the Tulsa World, where she was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for an investigation into how Oklahoma carried out executions. She previously served three terms on the IRE Board.

On Twitter: @zivabranstetter

Jason Leopold is an Emmy nominated investigative reporter on the BuzzFeed News investigations team and a member of the reporting team named a 2018 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting and the recipient of the Tom Renner award from Investigative Reporters and Editors for the same series. He is also a recipient of the IRE FOI award and was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame by the First Amendment Coalition and Newseum.

On Twitter: @jasonleopold

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Bill Adair is the Knight Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact. At Duke, he heads the journalism program as the director of the DeWitt Wallace Center and conducts research on fact-checking in the Duke University Reporters’ Lab.

On Twitter: @BillAdairDuke

Paul Cheung is the director of journalism and technology innovation at the Knight Foundation, overseeing a multimillion-dollar portfolio that is empowering innovation and sustainability in journalism through technology. Previously, he led cross-functional teams of journalists, developers, data scientists and designers at NBC News Digital, The Associated Press, The Miami Herald and The Wall Street Journal.

On Twitter: @pcheung630

Carlotta is a senior data journalist investigating global disinformation disorder at First Draft. She specializes in data-driven stories, open-source investigations and interactive storytelling formats. She has previously worked with The Times’ data team and written for several publications including The Guardian, the BBC and Al Jazeera, reporting from across Asia, Africa, Europe and South America.

On Twitter: @carlottadotto

Cristina Tardáguila is the International Fact-Checking Network's associate director. In 2015, she founded Agência Lupa, the first and largest fact-checking initiative in Brazil, and, in 2017, LupaEducação, its educational branch. As a journalist with an MBA in digital marketing, Tardáguila has worked at O Globo, Folha de S.Paulo, Globo.com and revista piauí.

On Twitter: @ctardaguila

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On Twitter: @nicoleMfoy

Diana R. Fuentes is deputy metro editor of the San Antonio Express-News, overseeing a team of reporters who cover government, courts, diversity issues, the environment and history, among other duties. She has more than 30 years of journalism experience, from police reporter and statehouse bureau chief to editor and publisher. A second-generation Texan who’s fluent in Spanish, Fuentes has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

On Twitter: @ddfonline

Ingalls is a KING 5 investigative reporter who enjoys digging beneath the surface to uncover important stories. His investigations have led to several new laws in Washington that keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, target businesses that are cheating the welfare system, uncover corruption at licensed drug and alcohol treatment centers, improve monitoring of offenders on home detention and regulate hundreds of special purpose taxing districts across the state.

On Twitter: @CJIngalls

Will Carless is a reporter for Reveal. Prior to joining Reveal, he was a senior correspondent for Public Radio International’s Global Post team based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Before that, Will spent eight years at the Voice of San Diego, where he worked as an investigative reporter and head of investigations. During his tenure in San Diego, Will was awarded several prizes, including a national IRE Award.

On Twitter: @willcarless

A.C. Thompson is a senior reporter for ProPublica. His stories have helped lead to the exoneration of two innocent San Francisco men sentenced to life in prison and the federal prosecution of nine white supremacists. In addition to working as a text journalist, Thompson has reported extensively for television, serving as a producer and correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline. His life was fictionalized on the HBO show “Treme.”

On Twitter: @acinvestigates

Sylvia Varnham O’Regan is a New Zealand journalist based in New York. She spent a year investigating police officers tied to extremist groups for the Guardian, probed New York’s largest psychic-fraud case for GQ, and featured in an episode of the Netflix series, “Dirty Money,” about a Texas community fighting a petrochemical company polluting their town. In addition to her longform projects, she works as a beat reporter covering real estate for The Real Deal magazine.

On Twitter: @SylviaVarnham

As the Investigative Broadcaster in Residence at American University, Washington, D.C., Chris has been on television for 30+ years, managing special-projects units in Seattle and Denver. In the past few years, he’s been the recipient of SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting, three National Press Club Awards, and a regional Edward R. Murrow. A documentary filmmaker, fiction author, and podcast creator, he takes a multi-media approach to investigative news.

On Twitter: @chalsne

Treasure Roberts was born in Detroit and graduated from Michigan State University in Lansing. Roberts joined the WMBD/WYZZ team in Peoria, Illinois, in January 2019 as a multimedia journalist. In April, she was promoted to nightside reporter. Roberts is passionate about storytelling, but adamant about learning how to do it all. She's learned how to shoot, edit, produce and anchor. Roberts also helped co-launch the station's first investigative team.

On Twitter: @TrobertsTV

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Yamiche Alcindor is the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour and a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. She often tells stories about the intersection of race and politics. She has directly questioned President Trump a number of times and has traveled extensively to cover a range of issues, including the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on Black people and communities of color and the protests following the death of George Floyd.

On Twitter: @Yamiche

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Karen K. Ho is a global finance and economics reporter at Quartz. Her reporting has appeared in outlets like GQ, Glamour, Vox, The Daily Beast, NBC News, Interview, Deadspin, the Columbia Journalism Review and Refinery29. She wrote Time's cover story on Crazy Rich Asians and Toronto Life's most-read story of the decade, which was recently published in the true crime anthology "Unspeakable Acts." Karen has a master’s degree specializing in business and economics from Columbia’s Journalism School.

On Twitter: @karenkho

David Barer is the senior investigative producer and reporter at KXAN News in Austin. Previously he worked at the Dallas Morning News, Community Impact Newspaper, KUT Austin and more. He is a native Texan, heat resistant and better at fishing than catching.

On Twitter: @david_barer

Jennifer Gollan is a reporter for Reveal covering labor and corporate accountability. Gollan uncovered rampant exploitation of caregivers in the elder care-home industry. The series prompted a congressional hearing and state legislation. Gollan’s work has appeared in The New York Times, the Associated Press, Politico Magazine and PBS NewsHour. Her honors include a national Emmy Award, a Hillman Prize for web journalism, two Sigma Delta Chi Awards and two SABEW Awards.

On Twitter: @jennifergollan

Danielle Ivory is an investigative reporter for The New York Times, where she is part of the team tracking coronavirus cases across the U.S. She has written about deadly auto-safety defects, Wall Street's push into emergency services and water and federal regulation in the Trump era. Before joining The Times in 2013, she wrote about government contracting at Bloomberg News.

On Twitter: @danielle_ivory

Samah Assad is an award-winning investigative journalist with CBS Chicago. Her work focuses on exposing systemic failures in policing, sexual assault, racial inequalities and disparities, taxpayer waste and government corruption. She specializes in data analysis, public records and digital interactivity.

On Twitter: @SAssadNews

Kate Martin is the lead investigative reporter for Carolina Public Press. Her work has led to the resignation of several elected officials and the creation of several state laws in Washington and North Carolina. Her deep analysis of years of North Carolina court records showed that fewer than 1 in 4 people charged with sexual assault are eventually convicted of that or a lesser crime.

On Twitter: @KateReports

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Dickerson covers immigration for The New York Times.

On Twitter: @itscaitlinhd

Tanvi is a staff writer at CQ Roll Call covering immigration policy on the Hill — and beyond. Previously, she worked at the Atlantic's CityLab website, writing about the local effects of immigration, housing, economic and criminal justice policy. Her work has also appeared on NPR, the BBC and the Texas Tribune. Her newsletter, "Eyes emoji on migration," distills what she is reading on the subjects she covers.

On Twitter: @Tanvim

Odette Alcazaren-Keeley is a diversity communications and media executive and currently serves as the director of the Maynard 200 journalism fellowship program of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She is also the president and founding partner of Global MediaX, a strategic multicultural and international media consultancy group headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its lead clients include the Presidio Trust, recipient of a 2018 Public Service Award, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Catholic Charities of San Francisco and the African Diaspora Network. Previously, she had served as a consultant for the Democracy Fund.

A respected broadcast journalist, Odette's career spans 20-plus years in the United States and the Philippines. Odette is a board trustee of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy based in San Francisco and a board adviser for the Filipino Food Movement. She graduated cum laude from the University of the Philippines Diliman, the country's premiere state university, with a B.A. in Mass Communication and minored in Broadcast Journalism.

On Twitter: @OdetteKeeley

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As publisher of I Messenger Media LLC, the umbrella organization for Texas Metro News, Garland Journal and I Messenger, Cheryl Smith has an extensive career across media platforms and as a journalism professor. An award-winning journalist and Florida A&M grad, Cheryl is secretary of the National Association of Black Journalists, Region IV, president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, president of D/FW Association of Black Journalists and board member of SPJ-DFW.

On Twitter: @penonfire

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After graduating with her paralegal studies degree, Khanstoshea Zingapan started law school and her legal career as a paralegal at the same time. She soon went on to become a serial entrepreneur in opening her own paralegal service company, Zebra Docs. Khanstoshea continued with her entrupential drive and passion to create Black Zebra Productions, specializing in marketing, documentaries and production projects. Her experience while traveling abroad led her to see the need in the community to transform Black Zebra into an international nonprofit, Black Zebra Charity, that supports and funds artists and artist-led projects.

Khanstoshea focuses her artistic skills to create meaningful video production and video editing projects within communities around the world.

On Twitter: @blackzebrapro

Faith recently joined ABC News with nearly a decade of experience as a reporter, most recently as an investigative reporter at WXIA in Atlanta. She's an Emmy- and AP-award-winning journalist and a 2020 Knight Foundation TV Data Fellow.

On Twitter: @ReporterFaith

Matthew Mosk is a senior investigative producer for ABC News. Based in Washington, D.C., he has for 10 years produced award-winning work for television and digital platforms, and in 2019 he reported and hosted a top-rated true crime podcast for ABC News Audio. Prior to network news, Mosk spent decades covering government and politics for major U.S. newspapers including The (Bergen County, New Jersey) Record, The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

On Twitter: @mattmosk

PJ Randhawa has almost a decade of experience in TV journalism. She was recently awarded the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting. She is a two-time Emmy winner. Her specialties include uncovering police corruption, cold cases and consumer investigations.

On Twitter: @pjksdk

Lise Gelernter has been a labor arbitrator for 18 years and is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators. Until August 2020, when she retired from teaching, she also was a visiting professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law. She is a graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe College and New York University Law School.

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Dr. Daxton “Chip” Stewart is an attorney and a professor of journalism at Texas Christian University. His areas of expertise include media law and communication technology and freedom of information. He is the author of "Social Media and the Law" (2nd ed., Routledge, 2017) and co-author of "The Law of Public Communication" (11th ed., Routledge, 2020).

On Twitter: @MediaLawProf

Jennifer Forsyth is deputy chief of investigations at The Wall Street Journal. She managed a collaboration with PBS Frontline on poor health care provided by the U.S. Indian Health Service, which won the Worth Bingham Award for Investigative Journalism in 2020 and was an Emmy finalist for Outstanding Investigative Documentary. She edited stories that were part of the Journal’s coverage of Trump’s hush money that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

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Bob Woodward, a legendary investigative journalist for more than four decades, is the author of 13 No. 1 bestselling books. His latest book, “Rage,” offers an intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency. It was published September 15. Woodward has won two Pulitzer Prizes and a host of other journalism awards. His work with Carl Bernstein at The Washington Post on the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

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