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Chris Papst is the investigative reporter for Project Baltimore, WBFF-TV's long-term investigative unit that focuses on educational issues throughout the Baltimore region and Maryland. Chris is a three-time IRE Award winner and best-selling author.

On Twitter: @chrispapst

Tonya Simpson is an Emmy and Murrow Award winning journalist. Before joining the ABC News Investigative Unit in December of 2019, she helped lead investigative and consumer teams at stations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Raleigh, North Carolina. Since joining ABC News, Tonya has worked on prime-time specials, documentaries and podcasts including The Shot: Race for the Vaccine, Tulsa's Buried Truth, and Have You Seen This Man?

On Twitter: @EyeSpyTy

Chris Vanderveen is the Director of Special Projects at Denver's KUSA-TV. His PRONE investigation recently received the Peabody and Scripps Howard Awards. A four-time NPPA Reporter of the Year recipient, Chris is also a past IRE award winner. His investigations have helped change federal and state law.

On Twitter: @chrisvanderveen

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Kristin Gilger is director of the National Center on Disability and Journalism and Reynolds Professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. She has served as interim dean, associate dean and assistant dean of the school. Previously, she was an editor at The Arizona Republic and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. She is co-author of “There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned About What it Takes to Lead.”

On Twitter: @kristingilger

Jennifer LaFleur is a senior editor at The Center for Public Integrity and teaches at American University. She joined CPI from The Investigative Reporting Workshop. She previously was a senior editor at Reveal/CIR, data editor at ProPublica, The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers. She is a former IRE training director and has won awards for her coverage of disability, legal and open government issues.

On Twitter: @j_la28

I’m a reporter on the investigative team at BuzzFeed News. Most recently, I investigated what happened after the private equity giant KKR bought up a company operating hundreds of group homes that promised to help people with disabilities “live their best lives.” Instead, conditions grew so dire that staff quit in droves, a state prohibited the company from accepting new residents, and some of the most vulnerable people in its care suffered and died.

On Twitter: @KendallTTaggart

Melanie Asmar (she/her) is a senior reporter at Chalkbeat Colorado, where she covers Denver Public Schools, Colorado's largest school district. She previously worked at alt-weekly newspaper Westword in Denver and for a daily newspaper in New Hampshire, where she covered education.

Erin is a national reporter for NBC News covering education and other issues, and will be a Spencer Educational Journalism Fellow at Columbia University this fall. Erin has worked for Chalkbeat, the New York Daily News, and other publications. She’s the author of The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home, which chronicles the year she spent living in Poland, getting to know the family that rescued her mother.

On Twitter: @erinleinhorn

As the resident watchdog for NBC 5 Investigates, Eva covers a variety of issues with a big heart and passion for truth. Fighting for transparency and open government makes her excited. And while she's won a few noteworthy awards, she certainly won't brag about them here.

On Twitter: @ParksDigsIn

Mark Greenblatt is senior national investigative correspondent for Scripps Washington Bureau, reporting for Newsy, Scripps local stations and podcasts. Mark is the lead reporter for "Verified: The Next Threat," an investigative podcast on globally linked white supremacy. He is a three-time Peabody winner and has earned the IRE Medal, duPont, Emmy, Murrow, Sigma Delta Chi and Livingston Award and has twice been a finalist for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize. He also gardens and brews his own beer.

On Twitter: @greenblattmark

3X Peabody award-winning media executive. Currently Executive Producer Podcasting Scripps Washington Bureau. Creator of Verified, Investigative podcast series. Co-founder of Reveal, the first investigative radio show and podcast in the US. Former head of NPR Investigations and CBC Investigations. Frequent international speaker and trainer on investigative storytelling and innovation

On Twitter: @verpod

Ellen Weiss is Washington Bureau Chief and Vice President of the E.W. Scripps Company and leads the production of original investigative and documentary stories and series in video and audio. Previously, she was Executive Editor at the Center for Public Integrity and Senior Vice President of News at NPR. Weiss is a trustee of the Scripps Howard Foundation and a volunteer with the National Park Service. She is a graduate of Smith College.

On Twitter: @Ellen_weiss

Ben Holland is a Manager with RMI’s Urban Transformation Program. For over ten years, he has helped governments, companies, and advocates identify and implement solutions for decarbonizing the transportation sector.

On Twitter: @beninboulder

Kate Mishkin is a producer for Neon Hum, an LA-based podcast studio that specializes in narrative audio. Her most recent podcast, produced in partnership with CNN, spent nearly a month at #1 on podcast charts. Before that, she covered energy and the environment at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, where she also produced a weekly podcast.

On Twitter: @KateMishkin

Mike Soraghan reports for E&E News, an online news outlet covering energy and the environment. He writes enterprise and investigative stories, primarily on the oil and gas industry. He's written stories that led to safety improvements at oil well sites and shone a light on oil executives who were trying to squelch research into earthquakes caused by their industry. He also compiled a first-of-its-kind database on oil and gas spills.

On Twitter: @MikeSoraghan

Catherine Traywick is an energy and commodities editor at Bloomberg News.

On Twitter: @ctraywick

Laura Castañeda, Ed.D., is a Professor of Professional Practice at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the school’s Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access. She was worked for the Associated Press, The Dallas Morning News and The San Francisco Chronicle. She earned two B.A.s from USC, her M.A. from Columbia, where she also was a Knight-Bagheot Fellow, and her doctorate from USC.

On Twitter: @lauracastaneda

James V. Grimaldi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in Washington. In 2021-22, his work with two WSJ colleagues found that 152 federal judges violated U.S. law and judicial ethics by overseeing 1,076 court cases involving companies in which they or their family owned stock. In response, the U.S. Congress passed a new ethics law that requires judges to post their financial disclosure reports on an online database.

On Twitter: @jamesvgrimaldi

Founding director of the Arnolt Center for investigative journalism at Indiana University. Formerly longtime senior investigative producer at CNN in Atlanta and a similar role at CBS NEWS in DC. Prior to television producing, had a long career in newspapers. Multiple awards including IRE, national Emmy, Columbia DuPont, Peabodys, ,Murrows. Specializing in counter terrorism and homeland security ; congressional spending and breaking new events

Myriam Masihy is a consumer investigative reporter with Telemundo 51 and NBC6 South Florida. She has dedicated the last 20-plus years addressing viewers’ concerns and working to solve problems in the community. She currently works as part of the NBC6 Investigators, NBC6 Responds, Telemundo 51 Responde and Telemundo 51 Investiga teams. Her work has been recognized with 19 Emmy Awards.

On Twitter: @MyriamT51

Jordan Chavez is an anchor and reporter at 9NEWS (KUSA-TV) in Denver, Colorado. Jordan joined the 9NEWS family in March 2017. He's covered everything from murder cases that garnered national attention to major wildfires that ripped through and devastated some of Colorado's communities. Jordan is most passionate about topics related to mental health, often speaking of his own battle with severe anxiety, and equity for marginalized populations, including LGBTQ+ members.

On Twitter: @Jordan_Chavez

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán reports on Texas politics and government for NPR's The Texas Newsroom. Prior to moving to Texas, Sergio worked for Bridge Michigan, where he reported extensively on the state’s inaugural redistricting commission, campaign finance and state government. He’s won multiple accolades, including a regional Edward R. Murrow Award while covering politics for Nashville Public Radio. Sergio is a Puerto Rico native and a Michigan State University alum.

On Twitter: @SergioMarBel

Claire Thornton is a breaking news reporter with USA TODAY, based in North Carolina's Triangle. On the LGBTQ beat, Claire covers state laws and procedures, population data, behavioral health data and local community-building. Claire has found that covering anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ youth state laws overlaps a lot with education and health coverage more broadly.

On Twitter: @claire_thornto

Molly Hensley-Clancy is a sports investigations reporter for The Washington Post. Her reporting focuses on abuse and mistreatment of women in sport, including a series of stories on coaching abuse in the National Women's Soccer League that won a 2021 IRE award. Previously, she was a national politics reporter at BuzzFeed News.

On Twitter: @mollyhc

Pete Madden is an award-winning producer, reporter and editor for the ABC News Investigative Unit, which contributes coverage to Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline and 20/20. Previously, he was a senior producer at Sports Illustrated, where he co-reported the magazine’s “First Golfer” feature about President Donald Trump’s global golf business. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Columbia Journalism School.

On Twitter: @pamadden

T.J. Quinn is a veteran investigative journalist who has spent 16 years as a news and sports reporter for outlets including the Daily Southtown in Chicago, the Salt Lake Tribune, The Record in New Jersey, and New York Daily News. T.J. previously spent seven years as an MLB beat writer covering the White Sox and Mets. T.J. joined ESPN in 2007 as reporter and anchor. He is a former adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University, and a graduate of University of Missouri.

On Twitter: @TJQuinnESPN

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Kyle grew up in the Maryland suburbs outside of Washington, D.C. Prior to joining NBC Connecticut, Kyle has reported along the East Coast at WMDT in Maryland, WMTW in Maine, and WJCL in Georgia. Before her career in journalism, Kyle spent eight years working in public relations. In her free time, she enjoys trivia nights, craft breweries, trying out local restaurants and visiting beaches across Connecticut.

On Twitter: @KyleJonesNBC

Ted recently celebrated 20 years as a reporter at KTRK. He prefers you refer to that as well-aged instead of old. Ted is ABC13's Investigative Reporter splitting time between investigating local government for 13 Investigates and consumer troubleshooting for the stations' Turn to Ted segments.

On Twitter: @tedabc13

Sam Levine is a senior reporter at the Guardian who covers voting rights across the US

On Twitter: @srl

Linda So is an award-winning multimedia investigative journalist for Reuters based in Washington, D.C. Her work exposing threats against election workers spurred federal investigations and multiple legislative reforms. Her reporting has won a trove of national honors, including the George Polk, RFK and Sigma Delta Chi awards. Before joining Reuters in 2013, she had an extensive career as a broadcast journalist, reporting and anchoring for various U.S. network affiliates.

On Twitter: @lindasoreports

Jason Szep is international political investigations editor at Reuters and has reported from across Asia and North America on a wide range of subjects. Honors for his work include a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2014, a Polk, three Awards for editorial excellence by the Society of Publishers in Asia, an Osborn Elliott Prize, two Sigma Delta Chi award and the Edgar A. Poe Award from the White House Correspondents’ Association.

On Twitter: @jasonszep

Pavla Holcová is the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project's regional editor for Central Europe. She is an investigative journalist and founder of investigace.cz. She has contributed to major cross-border projects such as the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and the Russian Laundromat. She has also investigated illegal arms sales to Syria during the war, explored links between the global cocaine trade and Balkan organized crime groups.

On Twitter: @pafak

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Tom Huang is assistant managing editor for journalism initiatives at The Dallas Morning News, where he edits the Sunday front page, directs newsroom talent development and leads The News’ community-funded journalism initiative, which seeks philanthropic funding to support public service journalism. As an adjunct faculty member of The Poynter Institute, he organizes seminars for professional journalists on writing, reporting and editing.

On Twitter: @tomthuang

Terry Greene Sterling is a journalist, author and teacher. Her narrative writing focuses on the people, places and politics of the American southwest. She is an editor at large for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and a faculty affiliate at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Reach her at terrygreenesterling.com or @tgsterling.

On Twitter: @tgsterling

Rebecca Woolington is the investigative editor at the Tampa Bay Times. Her work there has chronicled discrepancies in the state’s counting of coronavirus deaths and dangerous working conditions inside a Tampa lead factory. The latter earned her and her reporting partners, Corey G. Johnson and Eli Murray, the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting and several other national honors. She was previously an investigative and criminal justice reporter at The Oregonian.

On Twitter: @rwoolington

Carrie Peirce is the Executive Producer for Project Baltimore, WBFF-TV's investigative unit focused on hard-hitting investigations into Baltimore public schools. Carrie has won nearly two dozen Emmys and a number of national awards. She is a three-time IRE Award winner.

Andy is a national award winning journalist recognized with a George Foster Peabody, multiple regional Emmys, regional/national Edward R. Murrow awards. His investigations have changed state laws, put people in prison, freed a man from jail and led to historic state fines. He's also the creator of an episodic series that tackles some of the most controversial topics of our time which follows skeptical viewers who interview experts.

On Twitter: @AndyPierrotti

Julie is an award-winning investigative reporter for CBS News & Stations, based in Sacramento. Her accountability reporting also airs in San Francisco and Los Angeles and has prompted recalls, federal investigations and several new laws. The 12-time Emmy award-winning journalist has been honored with more than a half-dozen national awards and more than a dozen regional awards. Julie is also an AMS-sealed Meteorologist, News Anchor and Multi-Skilled Journalist (MSJ/VJ).

On Twitter: @juliewattstv

Jason Gonzales is the higher education and legislative matters reporter for Chalkbeat Colorado. Previously, he covered K-12 and higher education for The Tennessean and Brunswick County for the Wilmington Star News.

On Twitter: @ByJasonGonzales

Bracey Harris is an enterprise reporter for NBC News Digital based in Mississippi. Her coverage largely focuses on income and health in the South.

On Twitter: @braceyharris

Matt Krupnick is a freelance reporter and editor specializing in inequity/inequality, education, investigative work, data journalism, food equity and the environment. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post and the Hechinger Report, among other national and international publications.

On Twitter: @mattkrupnick

Kathy Best is the founding director of the Howard Center at the University of Maryland, which teaches investigative skills by working with students to produce national projects. She was previously the executive editor of The Seattle Times and Missoulian in Montana and was one of the top editors at The Sun, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She is enjoying the heck out of giving back to the profession she loves.

On Twitter: @kbest

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James V. Grimaldi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in Washington. In 2021-22, his work with two WSJ colleagues found that 152 federal judges violated U.S. law and judicial ethics by overseeing 1,076 court cases involving companies in which they or their family owned stock. In response, the U.S. Congress passed a new ethics law that requires judges to post their financial disclosure reports on an online database.

On Twitter: @jamesvgrimaldi

Lise Olsen is the author of CODE OF SILENCE, which won the IRE Book award in 2022 and examines major flaws in the federal judicial misconduct system. Her book reveals how a federal judge got away with sexually assaulting his own employees for years before finally being prosecuted and impeached. Now senior editor and reporter at the Texas Observer, Olsen is a former IRE board member whose work has also appeared in documentaries on CNN and A & E and in other publications.

On Twitter: @lisedigger

Andrew Pantazi is the founder and editor of The Tributary, a nonprofit investigative newsroom in Jacksonville, Fla. He was previously an enterprise reporter at The Florida Times-Union for eight years.

On Twitter: @APantazi

Michael is the research director at Issue One, a bipartisan political reform group based in DC. He previously worked as a reporter for more than 10 years at the Center for Public Integrity, OpenSecrets.org, Mother Jones and other outlets. Since September 2020, he has resided in Colorado and loves hiking in the mountains. Michael is happy to talk with reporters, on the record or on background, especially about campaign finance and election issues.

On Twitter: @mjbeckel

Robert Maguire is the Research Director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. He has been tracking dark money groups for a decade, since founding the Political Nonprofit Tracking Project at OpenSecrets.org, where he produced award-winning reporting on dark money networks.

On Twitter: @RobertMaguire_

Anna Massoglia is OpenSecrets’ Editorial and Investigations Manager. Her research also includes "dark money," political ads and foreign influence. She holds degrees in political science and psychology from North Carolina State University and a J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia School of Law. Anna previously worked as a research analyst, writer and editor at Bloomberg BNA.

On Twitter: @annalecta

Susan Greene reported in California, Nevada and D.C. before her 13 years as a reporter and columnist at The Denver Post. She went on run the nonprofit Colorado Independent before its 2020 merger with COLab. “Trashing the Truth,” a series she reported with Miles Moffeit, was a finalist for the Pulitzer in investigative journalism. She coaches while co-reporting with journalists and currently is leading a multi-outlet investigation of Colorado’s mental health care system.

On Twitter: @greeneindenver

Mary Hudetz is a reporter for ProPublica's Southwest unit. Before joining ProPublica, she worked for The Seattle Times and Associated Press. A member of the Crow Tribe in Montana, she is a former president of the Native American Journalists Association. She is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

On Twitter: @marymhudetz

Dan Schwartz is an independent journalist who writes about the environment and outdoors for national publications such as The Atlantic and Outside Magazine. He is also a producer on an investigative podcast for iHeartRadio that'll be out this fall.

Steve Zansberg is a media and First Amendment lawyer in Denver, Colorado. For 26 years, Steve has represented reporters, editors, publishers and broadcasters in defending lawsuits, pre-publication review, newsroom counseling, fighting subpoenas and seeking access to government proceedings and records. Steve is president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition.

On Twitter: @DenverSteve

Founding director of the Arnolt Center for investigative journalism at Indiana University. Formerly longtime senior investigative producer at CNN in Atlanta and a similar role at CBS NEWS in DC. Prior to television producing, had a long career in newspapers. Multiple awards including IRE, national Emmy, Columbia DuPont, Peabodys, ,Murrows. Specializing in counter terrorism and homeland security ; congressional spending and breaking new events

Frank LoMonte is Legal Counsel for CNN. A nationally recognized expert in freedom-of-information law, he is a former executive director of the Student Press Law Center, and director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida.

On Twitter: @franklomonte

Garrett Therolf is a reporter for UC Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program, where he has reported on child welfare for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Atlantic and Netflix. He previously worked at the Los Angeles Times where he covered Los Angeles County's safety net, including its foster care system. His stories were named best explanatory reporting at The Times and won the Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism Prize three times.

On Twitter: @gtherolf

Ryan Thornburg is an associate professor who has been teaching journalism courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2007. Before that he spent a decade editing digital news.

On Twitter: @rtburg

Paul Cheung leads The Center for Public Integrity as CEO. Previously, he managed a multi-million dollars investment portfolio at the Knight Foundation. Cheung has 20 years of experience in leading digital transformation at media outlets including NBC News Digital, The Associated Press, The Miami Herald, and The Wall Street Journal.

On Twitter: @pcheung630

She is the executive director and editor at the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo in Puerto Rico. For the past 20 years, she worked as a reporter, editor and producer for radio, tv, print and online. From CPI, she has led teams that have won the IRE Philip Meyer Award and the Louis M. Lyons Award at Harvard, among others. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and board member of the News Leaders Association.

On Twitter: @carlaminetpr

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Scott Friedman is senior investigative reporter for NBC5 / KXAS-TV, the NBC network owned station in Dallas-Fort Worth. His reporting focuses on exposing government waste, fraud, and critical safety concerns. His stories have been recognized with honors including a Peabody Award, the IRE Award, five National Edward R. Murrow Awards, the national SPJ Sigma Delta Chi, National Headliner, and National News & Documentary Emmy honors for best regional investigative report.

On Twitter: @ScottNBC5

Wendy Halloran's dogged reporting has led to criminal convictions, overturned a 1.6-million-dollar civil trial jury verdict, focused heavily on police misconduct, wrongfully accused and convicted cases and exposed parole supervision failures that led to murders. Recognized nationally with the Alfred I.duPont Award, National Headliner Awards, 2-time IRE Award Finalist, Murrow and multiple Emmy awards. She is currently the Chief Investigative Reporter for KUTV.

On Twitter: @wendy_halloran

Tony Kovaleski is the Chief Investigative Reporter and Corporate Trainer for Denver7 News and Scripps. His work, Aundrea’s Final Ride: A Culture in Question, exposed systematic breakdowns within Denver Health’s Paramedics division and was honored as a finalist for this year’s IRE Award in its division. Over three decades his work has exposed corruption, changed laws and held the most powerful accountable in Denver, San Francisco/San Jose, Houston and Phoenix.

On Twitter: @TonyKovaleski

Ana Ley is a reporter at The New York Times covering public transit. She was previously a reporter and editor at The Virginian-Pilot. In 2017, her stories exposed predatory toll road practices and triggered refunds for thousands of drivers as well as the demotion of a CEO at a multi-billion dollar transportation company. She was a 2021 Livingston Award finalist for her stories on the enduring legacy of racism in Virginia politics.

On Twitter: @La__Ley

"Not funny," says Anita Hassan. "Laugh-out-loud funny," says The Washington Post. Probably droll at best. Author, "Pandemic, Inc." Reporter, ProPublica. Coping in Washington, D.C. by way of Texas, Florida and Colorado.

On Twitter: @davidmcswane

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Ryan Martin is an investigative reporter at The Indianapolis Star, where he writes about the criminal justice system and local government. He is a 2021 IRE Award winner for an investigation into Indiana's jail deaths crisis. He also was part of a team of journalists from four newsrooms that examined K-9 units and the damage inflicted by police dogs. The team won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

On Twitter: @ryanmartin

Cheryl Phillips teaches at Stanford and is founder of Big Local News. Previously, Phillips worked at The Seattle Times for 12 years. She has twice worked on breaking news which received Pulitzer Prizes and has twice been on teams that were Pulitzer finalists. Phillips has worked in journalism so long that she used to file stories with a TRS-80. She served for 10 years on the IRE board and is a former board president.

On Twitter: @cephillips

Matt Drange is a journalist at Business Insider. He's previously reported for Protocol, The Information, Forbes magazine and The Center for Investigative Reporting. Matt joined IRE in 2010 as part of the inaugural Campus Coverage Project and is a proud Humboldt State University alum. He teaches journalists how to get the most out of public records. Matt’s most recent investigation uncovered decades of sexual abuse at the hands of his own high school journalism teacher.

On Twitter: @mattdrange

Leslie Eaton is a senior editor for investigations at The Marshall Project. She was previously investigative editor of The Dallas Morning News, Texas bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and a reporter at The New York Times. Projects she edited have won awards including the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism.

On Twitter: @lesliepeaton

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Sewell Chan joined The Texas Tribune as editor in chief in October 2021. Previously he was a deputy managing editor and then the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw coverage that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. From 2004 to 2018, he was a metro reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy Op-Ed editor and international news editor at The New York Times. He began his career in 2000 at The Washington Post.

On Twitter: @sewellchan

Amy Pyle is national investigations editor at USA TODAY. This year, she oversaw investigations into why adoptions fail and which nursing home chain had the highest COVID death rate. Previously, Amy was editor in chief at The Center for Investigative Reporting, helping launch Reveal and establishing a fellowship for investigative journalists of color. Previously, she was AME/investigations at The Sacramento Bee and an ACE and reporter at the Los Angeles Times.

On Twitter: @amy_pyle

Jose A. Del Real is a reporter for The Washington Post. He travels the country to write in-depth feature stories about American life and politics.

On Twitter: @jdelreal

John Diedrich is an investigative reporter. His work has revealed dangerous electrical conditions falling disproportionately hard on Black renters, hospitals that turn away ambulances and federal undercover gun stings that took advantage of people with mental disabilities. Diedrich has received national journalism honors, including being named a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist, a George Polk Award winner, and a three-time IRE Award recipient.

On Twitter: @john_diedrich

Raquel Rutledge is an investigative reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel where she covers a variety of subjects from health and science to crime and taxes. Her investigation into fraud in Wisconsin’s day care subsidy program won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. In 2021 Rutledge led an investigation that exposed how electrical fires in Milwaukee hit Black renters hardest. That work was named a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.

On Twitter: @raquelrutledge

George Freeman is the executive director of the Media Law Resource Center and the MLRC Institute. He was most recently of counsel to the law firm of Jenner & Block. He is a former assistant general counsel of The New York Times Company, where he was at the forefront of numerous high-profile cases for the company and its affiliated businesses. George is a well-known speaker on media and First Amendment issues.

Jenn Abelson is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post and co-host of the investigative podcast Broken Doors, a series about no-knock warrants. She was part of the team that was recognized in 2020 as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its investigation into America’s deadly opioid epidemic. She was also part of the team that won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2021.

On Twitter: @jennabelson

Reena Flores is the supervising senior producer of The Washington Post's audio team. She works on their flagship news podcast, "Post Reports." She also led production of the Post’s two investigative podcasts, “Broken Doors” (a deep dive into the use of no-knock warrants nationwide) and "Canary: The Washington Post Investigates" (on the aftermath of a sexual assault). “Canary” was named one of Apple's best podcasts of 2020 and is a national Edward R. Murrow winner.

On Twitter: @reenajf

Morgan Loew is an investigative reporter in Phoenix, Arizona. He teaches media law at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is the president of the Arizona First Amendment Coalition and has won multiple awards for his reporting on the US-Mexico border, politics and crime. Morgan also works as a consultant for the CBS News program 48 Hours.

On Twitter: @morganloewcbs5

Nicole just started her new gig as Executive Producer of Content Development at CBS News & Stations. She is leading a team of investigative journalists who will tell important national stories, along with reporters from CBS affiliates across the country. Nicole lives in Denver with her husband and cute dogs. Nicole's best productions to date are her two incredible daughters -- who are out making the world a better place to be.

On Twitter: @nicolevap

When CNBC Senior Investigative Producer Scott Zamost speaks at conferences around the world, he often finishes with words of encouragement: If you can't get in the front, go around the side. If that doesn't work, try the back. You will eventually find your way and get the story. Scott, who has won more than 75 reporting awards, joined CNBC in 2017 after nine years at CNN and previously CBS News, WTVJ and WPLG.

On Twitter: @scottzamost

Ziva Branstetter is a senior editor at ProPublica and previously worked as corporate accountability editor at The Washington Post. Branstetter has also worked as an editor at Reveal, co-founded The Frontier – an investigative newsroom in Tulsa – and spent more than 20 years at the Tulsa World. Her work has received awards from the Overseas Press Club, Scripps Howard, the White House Correspondents Association and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

On Twitter: @zivabranstetter

Emilia is data and research editor and Latin America coordinator for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. She has taken part in projects such as ICIJ's Implant Files, Pandora 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, 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

Andrew W. Lehren is a senior editor on the NBC News investigations team. Previously, he spent almost 13 years as a reporter at The New York Times, working on a range of national, international, and investigative stories. He was one of the newspaper’s lead reporters analyzing the Wikileaks trove of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan and Iraq war logs, and Guantanamo detainee dossiers. Highlights from those stories were compiled into a bestselling book, “Open Secrets.”

On Twitter: @lehrennbc

Sandra Fish is a data journalist focused on politics with the Colorado Sun.

On Twitter: @fishnette

Jessica Huseman is the editorial director of Votebeat, a non-profit newsroom covering elections in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas. She is the owner of The Friendly State News, which offers low-cost and free journalism training to local newsrooms, students and freelancers.

On Twitter: @jessicahuseman

Anna Massoglia is OpenSecrets’ Editorial and Investigations Manager. Her research also includes "dark money," political ads and foreign influence. She holds degrees in political science and psychology from North Carolina State University and a J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia School of Law. Anna previously worked as a research analyst, writer and editor at Bloomberg BNA.

On Twitter: @annalecta

Bethany Barnes is the deputy investigative editor at the Tampa Bay Times. Barnes is also one of four journalists who put together Local Matters, a weekly newsletter of the nation’s best local investigative reporting. Barnes previously worked at The Oregonian, where her coverage of Portland Public Schools prompted the Education Writers Association to name her the nation’s best education beat reporter in 2018. Before that, she was a reporter in Las Vegas.

On Twitter: @betsbarnes

Lulu Ramadan is an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times and a distinguished fellow at ProPublica's Local Reporting Network. She co-curates the weekly newsletter Local Matters, which spotlights excellent investigative stories by local reporters.

On Twitter: @luluramadan

Marissa Evans is a health reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2021, she worked for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where she covered housing, Black community trauma after George Floyd’s death, how communities of color have been affected by COVID-19 and how Minnesota allows private hospitals to seize tax refunds from consumers with unpaid medical bills. She previously reported for the Texas Tribune, CQ Roll Call and Kaiser Health News.

On Twitter: @marissaaevans

Naseem Miller is a senior health editor at The Journalist's Resource. Previously, she was a health reporter in local newspapers and national medical publications for nearly two decades. She covered the Pulse nightclub mass shooting at the Orlando Sentinel and later helped start the Journalists Covering Trauma Facebook group as a gathering space for reporters who cover tragic events.

On Twitter: @NaseemMiller

Elana Newman, McFarlin Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa and research director at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, is a journalist ally and PTSD/traumatic stress expert. Her research examines journalists’ occupational health. She provides training about trauma science, interviewing survivors, self-care, resilience, interpersonal violence, disaster mental health, occupational health, online harassment and trauma-related newsroom practices.

On Twitter: @elananewman DartCenter

This is the 20th conference where Stephen has taught. After a decade as founding member of NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit, Stephen is joining CBS News and Stations as National Investigative Correspondent -- part of the new innovation lab based in Dallas-Ft Worth. The team includes IRE members Aparna Zalani, Chris Hacker and recent IRE board member Nicole Vap. Stephen has won almost every journalism award, including a Peabody, duPont, Murrow and a National SPJ Award.

On Twitter: @stephenstocktv

Al Tompkins is one of America's most requested broadcast journalism and multimedia teachers and coaches. After nearly 30 years working as a reporter, photojournalist, producer, investigative reporter, head of special investigations and News Director, Tompkins joined the Poynter Institute where he is Senior Faculty for Broadcast and Online. He is the author of "Aim for the Heart" a textbook about multimedia storytelling that has been adopted by more than 100 universities worldwide. He has taught in 49 states, Canada, Egypt, Denmark, South Africa, Iceland and the Caymans.

On Twitter: @atompkins

Mark Greenblatt is senior national investigative correspondent for Scripps Washington Bureau, reporting for Newsy, Scripps local stations and podcasts. Mark is the lead reporter for "Verified: The Next Threat," an investigative podcast on globally linked white supremacy. He is a three-time Peabody winner and has earned the IRE Medal, duPont, Emmy, Murrow, Sigma Delta Chi and Livingston Award and has twice been a finalist for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize. He also gardens and brews his own beer.

On Twitter: @greenblattmark

Adrienne Mayfield is the executive producer of investigations and special projects at WAVY-TV 10. She leads an investigative team of five, including two reporters, a photographer, and an associate producer. Adrienne is an Emmy-nominated broadcast journalist, and her team won a 2022 AP award for best documentary for WAVY-TV's investigative docuseries, "The Patients v. Perwaiz."

On Twitter: @Adrienne_WAVY

Cho Park is an investigative producer at ABC News who specializes in long form reports. Park has covered everything from mass shootings to racial inequalities, including long term coverage of 'race-norming' in the NFL concussion settlement which the NFL pledged to stop last year. One of Park's favorite projects that she lead produced on was an hour documentary for Hulu called The Informant with George Stephanopoulos.

On Twitter: @clpark722

Seamus Hughes helps run the George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. There he researches individuals charged with providing material support to foreign and domestic terrorist organizations. As part of those investigations, he developed expertise in searching the federal court records system, often uncovering newsworthy results. In addition, Hughes has also reported as a New York Times journalist, working with their D.C. and Investigative Bureaus.

On Twitter: @SeamusHughes

Bethany Barnes is the deputy investigative editor at the Tampa Bay Times. Barnes is also one of four journalists who put together Local Matters, a weekly newsletter of the nation’s best local investigative reporting. Barnes previously worked at The Oregonian, where her coverage of Portland Public Schools prompted the Education Writers Association to name her the nation’s best education beat reporter in 2018. Before that, she was a reporter in Las Vegas.

On Twitter: @betsbarnes

Corey G. Johnson had been an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times. Before that, his expose of illegal sterilization surgeries in California women’s prisons led to sweeping reforms, including a statewide ban and a groundbreaking reparations program. In 2011, his work uncovered deficient earthquake protections in thousands of public schools. The series was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the IRE Gold Medal among other honors.

On Twitter: @CoreyGJohnson

Eli Murray is an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times. He's a self-taught programmer who uses code to create graphics and crunch numbers on local and national investigations.

On Twitter: @eli_mur

Rebecca Woolington is the investigative editor at the Tampa Bay Times. Her work there has chronicled discrepancies in the state’s counting of coronavirus deaths and dangerous working conditions inside a Tampa lead factory. The latter earned her and her reporting partners, Corey G. Johnson and Eli Murray, the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting and several other national honors. She was previously an investigative and criminal justice reporter at The Oregonian.

On Twitter: @rwoolington

Sonali Kohli is an award-winning journalist in Los Angeles who writes and edits work about the futures that young people are creating. She’s currently writing a young adult nonfiction book to be published by Beacon Press about teen activists. Sonali is also a recruiter with URL Media and an assistant editor at the CalMatters College Journalism Network. Previously she was a Spencer Fellow in Education Journalism and a Los Angeles Times reporter.

On Twitter: @sonali_kohli

Adam M. Rhodes is a nobinary, first-generation, Cuban American journalist whose work primarily focuses on queer people and the criminal justice system. Their recent work has examined HIV treatment access in Puerto Rico, HIV criminalization in Illinois, and a homophobic capital murder trial. Rhodes was most recently a staff writer and social justice reporter at the Chicago Reader, and they have been published in outlets including BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post.

On Twitter: @byadamrhodes

Alex Stuckey is an investigative reporter for the Houston Chronicle. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 while working for the Salt Lake Tribune. This year, Stuckey was named the Headliners Foundation's Charles E. Green Star Reporter of the Year by Texas APME and was a finalist for the NIHCM Foundation Health Care General Circulation Journalism Award. She graduated from Ohio University in 2012 and loves yoga, reading and elephants.

On Twitter: @alexdstuckey

Taylor Blatchford is the engagement reporter for The Seattle Times' investigative team. Her work focuses on communicating directly with readers, involving them in the reporting process and developing digital strategies for the Times' watchdog work. She writes The Lead, a weekly newsletter for student journalists, in partnership with Poynter. A graduate of the University of Missouri, she’s now earning a master’s degree in journalism education at Kent State University.

On Twitter: @blatchfordtr

Mollie Muchna joined Trusting News in 2019 after years of working in audience and engagement journalism in different newsrooms throughout the west. Most recently, she was the engagement editor at the local newsroom in Southern Arizona, where she continues to reside. She’s also an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona.

On Twitter: @molliemuchna

Bente is an award-winning journalist for Colorado Public Radio who has spent more than a decade reporting on the Colorado state capitol. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later. She co-hosts CPR's politics podcast Purplish. She enjoys the variety, depth and challenge of covering the statehouse beat.

On Twitter: @BenteBirkeland

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán reports on Texas politics and government for NPR's The Texas Newsroom. Prior to moving to Texas, Sergio worked for Bridge Michigan, where he reported extensively on the state’s inaugural redistricting commission, campaign finance and state government. He’s won multiple accolades, including a regional Edward R. Murrow Award while covering politics for Nashville Public Radio. Sergio is a Puerto Rico native and a Michigan State University alum.

On Twitter: @SergioMarBel

Marina Villeneuve is The Associated Press' sole state government and politics reporter in Albany, N.Y. She's focused on developing her investigative reporting skills with accountability stories about New York's reporting of COVID-19 deaths and the sluggish roll-out of rental relief.

On Twitter: @ReporterMarina

Jeff Hermes serves as deputy director of the Media Law Resource Center, where he focuses on digital media law issues. Jeff previously served as director of the Digital Media Law Project at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, providing free legal resources for journalists and online media ventures. Over 14 years in private practice, Jeff has represented an international media network, metropolitan newspapers, broadcasters, online publishers and social media networks.

Justin Elliott has been a reporter with ProPublica since 2012, where he has covered business and economics as well as money and influence in politics.

On Twitter: @justinelliott

Adiel Kaplan is an investigative reporter with NBC National News, where she has written articles and produced television segments on topics from healthcare to immigration, labor and domestic violence. She is an adjunct assistant professor with the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia Journalism School and previously worked at the Miami Herald and InvestigateWest.

On Twitter: @adielkaplan

Joe Stephens is Founding Director of the Journalism Program at Princeton University, where he also is a Ferris Professor of Journalism. He’s a director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and a former longtime investigative reporter at The Washington Post. He is a three-time winner of the George Polk Award and a three-time nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A frequent contest judge and media analyst, he lives in DC and Princeton, NJ

On Twitter: @Joe_Stephens

Robert Benincasa reports and analyzes data for NPR’s investigations team. Recent work includes data-driven investigations of the inequities of federal disaster aid, coal miners' exposures to deadly silica dust and heat-related worker deaths. Benincasa has also served as the database editor for Gannett News Service and on the faculty of Georgetown University's Master of Professional Studies program in journalism.

On Twitter: @robertbenincasa

Michael de Yoanna is an investigative reporter with The War Horse. He got his start two decades ago as a newspaper reporter before moving to NPR affiliates in Colorado, serving as a news director and investigative reporter. He has earned three dozen honors, including a duPont-Columbia silver baton (co-reporting with NPR), two national Edward R Murrows and a Sigma Delta Chi (as editor) for investigations.

On Twitter: @mdy1

Huo Jingnan is an associate producer on NPR's investigations team. She works with journalists in the organization and in member stations to produce original, in-depth reporting. Her work has prompted the introduction of a senate bill, won some awards, and got a Jeopardy mention. Huo learned journalism in Northwestern University’s Medill School and studied law in China, Canada and France.

On Twitter: @Jingnan_Huo

Barb is chief librarian and associate professor of investigative research methods at Newmark J-School at City University New York. She is the former director of news research at The New York Times.

On Twitter: @barbgray

Margot Williams is a researcher at The Intercept and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, where she has contributed to the Pandora Papers, Implant Files and FinCEN Files. She has reported on the Guantanamo detainees since 2002 for the Washington Post, New York Times, NPR and The Intercept.

On Twitter: @MargotWilliams

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. A member since 1994 and a longtime consumer investigative reporter, Cindy currently serves on IRE’s Board of Directors.

On Twitter: @mustangalli

Holly has been a journalist for 40 years. She has worked as a News Director in Denver, Seattle and Philadelphia. She was an Assistant News Director in Washington DC and Oklahoma City. She's been a Producer or Executive Producer in New Orleans and Baltimore. Holly has overseen the Investigative teams in many of those markets. She has won numerous Emmy and Murrow awards in a wide variety of categories including investigative journalism.

On Twitter: @HollyGaunttDen

Lee Zurik’s hard-hitting investigations continue to effect change and garner respect. Lee’s work has been recognized with journalism’s top awards. He is currently Vice President of Investigations for Gray Television. In that role, Lee oversees Gray’s National Investigative Team as well as a weekly investigative show that airs on 113 Gray stations. In addition, Lee is the Evening News Anchor and Chief Investigative Reporter at WVUE-TV in New Orleans.

On Twitter: @leezurik

Corey Hutchins is the interim director of the Journalism Institute at Colorado College. For nearly a decade he has covered the local U.S. news scene for Columbia Journalism Review. He has written for The Washington Post, Slate, The Nation and others. The Colorado Media Project, where he writes case studies, underwrites his weekly newsletter about local new issues in Colorado at coloradomedia.Substack.com.

On Twitter: @CoreyHutchins

Azmat Khan is a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter with the New York Times Magazine and an Asst. Professor at Columbia Journalism School, where she leads the Li Center for Global Journalism. Khan's investigations have exposed major myths of war and their human costs, prompting policy impact from Washington to Kabul and winning more than a dozen awards, including two National Magazine Awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, and the Polk Award, among others.

On Twitter: @AzmatZahra

Christoph Koettl is a Visual Investigations journalist with the New York Times video team, specializing in the analysis of satellite imagery, video and other visual evidence. He was part of a team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for coverage of the civilian toll of U.S. air and drone strikes.

On Twitter: @ckoettl

Dave Philipps is a Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent for The New York Times and author of the non-fiction thriller ALPHA, Edward Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs. He lives in Colorado.

On Twitter: @David_Philipps

Champe Barton is an investigative reporter at The Trace who covers the gun industry. He's written about lawbreaking gun dealers in Chicago, statewide crime-gun tracing failures in California and the human toll of punitive sentencing in Milwaukee, among other gun-related topics.

On Twitter: @champebarton

Alain Stephens is The Trace's emerging violence reporter. A military veteran and gun owner, Stephens has spent the last six years covering gun violence and arms trafficking, where his investigations led to important public safety, civil rights, and criminal justice reforms.

On Twitter: @AlainStephens

Susan Greene reported in California, Nevada and D.C. before her 13 years as a reporter and columnist at The Denver Post. She went on run the nonprofit Colorado Independent before its 2020 merger with COLab. “Trashing the Truth,” a series she reported with Miles Moffeit, was a finalist for the Pulitzer in investigative journalism. She coaches while co-reporting with journalists and currently is leading a multi-outlet investigation of Colorado’s mental health care system.

On Twitter: @greeneindenver

Adam A. Marshall is a senior staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. His work includes litigation in federal and state courts and training journalists on government transparency. In 2017, he was named to the Forbes “30 Under 30: Media” list for his work promoting government transparency, including the development of the FOIA Wiki. Adam is a graduate of The George Washington University Law School.

On Twitter: @a_marshall_plan

Evan Wyloge is a data and investigative reporter at The Colorado Springs Gazette.

On Twitter: @evanwyloge

James E. Causey is an award-winning columnist and projects writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Causey has spent more than 30 years as a professional journalist. In 2019-’20 Causey received an O’Brien Fellowship from Marquette University. His 2018 award-winning USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Fellowship project “Cultivating a Community,” was a narrative vessel on a community garden in 53206 that mentors teen boys besieged by trauma.

On Twitter: @jecausey

Tina Rosenberg is co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network. She is a long-time New York Times writer, for the editorial page, Sunday magazine and for 11 years as co-writer of the Fixes column. She has written hundreds of magazine articles and three books. Her book "The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism" won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

On Twitter: @tirosenberg

Richard Webster is a New Orleans-based investigative journalist for ProPublica Local Reporting Network. He previously worked on the Times-Picayune's investigative team and contributed to The Washington Post.

On Twitter: @RichardAWebster

Andrea Arzaba is GIJN's Spanish editor. As a reporter and a media professional, she has dedicated her life to documenting the stories of people in Latin America and Latinx communities in the US. Her work focuses on issues around freedom of expression, migration, and women’s leadership. Andrea holds a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University in Washington DC and a BA in Communications/Journalism from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

On Twitter: @andrea_arzaba

John Bones is managing director at SKUP, the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Reporting. He is one of the Nordic data journalism pioneers and has led trainings at NICAR, IRE, GIJC and multiple national conferences. For more than 20 years he was journalist and editor at VG, the most read Norwegian newspaper.

On Twitter: @vgbones

David E. Kaplan is executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, an association of 227 groups in 88 countries. He has won or shared more than 25 awards, including four IRE awards. He has managed nonprofit newsrooms, investigative teams and numerous cross-border projects. He is a former director of ICIJ and chief investigative correspondent for US News & World Report.

On Twitter: @kaplandave

Jenny Lam is a senior lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she teaches investigative journalism and broadcasting. She was a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years in Hong Kong and the UK.

On Twitter: @jennycklam

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Marsha Cooke is an award-winning news and media veteran with a career spanning over three decades. She currently serves as vice president & executive producer for ESPN Films and 30 for 30.

On Twitter: @marshacooke

Dawn Garcia is the director. Garcia helped transform the JSK Fellowships from a sabbatical model to one that coaches and challenges fellows to become innovative leaders and change agents to reinvent journalism.

She began her career as a reporter and editor at West Coast newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she wrote about politics, immigration and legal affairs. She is a past president of the Journalism & Women Symposium, a national nonprofit organization that supports the professional empowerment and personal growth of women in journalism and works toward a more accurate portrayal of society. She has served on nonprofit boards championing First Amendment rights, social justice and quality journalism training and education.

She earned a master’s degree in liberal arts at Stanford, writing her dissertation on the evolution of Spanish-language media in California and earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Oregon. She has taught journalism at Bay Area universities and is a lecturer in Stanford’s Journalism Program. She was a 1991-92 JSK Fellow, where she studied U.S.-Mexico relations.

On Twitter: @degarciaknight

Erica Henry is the vice president, news, for CNN U.S. In this role, she oversees management of the newsgathering southeast regional team of field producers and talent who are covering and breaking news for CNN. She has contributed to the network's coverage including the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Georgia Senate race and the 2020 summer of protests following the death of George Floyd.

On Twitter: @ericahenry

Liz is a bilingual consumer investigative reporter for Telemundo 47, specializing in recovering money for viewers, and educating and informing Hispanic community about consumer issues and scams.

On Twitter: @lizrespondeT47

Caresse Jackman is a national consumer investigative reporter with Gray Television’s InvestigateTV. Prior to Investigate TV, she was a consumer investigative reporter at WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennesee. She has prior reporting experience at WWL-TV in New Orleans, WJRT in Flint, Michigan, and WCBI in Columbus, Mississippi. Caresse started her career behind the scenes as a producer at WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi. Caresse is a graduate of the University of Georgia.

On Twitter: @CaresseJ

Jason Knowles is a Consumer Investigative Reporter at ABC 7 in Chicago. He's been with the station since 2004 and has been exposing rip-offs, scams and privacy concerns in his role as Consumer Investigator since 2014.

On Twitter: @knowlesabc7

I cover lobbying and foreign influence for Mother Jones. I've previously worked for National Journal, the New York Daily News, Federal Times and elsewhere. I've covered the Senate, government oversight and federal contracting. I'm from Boston.

On Twitter: @dfriedman33

Anna Massoglia is OpenSecrets’ Editorial and Investigations Manager. Her research also includes "dark money," political ads and foreign influence. She holds degrees in political science and psychology from North Carolina State University and a J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia School of Law. Anna previously worked as a research analyst, writer and editor at Bloomberg BNA.

On Twitter: @annalecta

Noah is the National Political Editor at NBCLX, a broadcast/streaming/cable network focused on explanatory and long-form journalism for GenZ and Millennial audiences. Prior to joining NBC, he covered investigations, politics, and sports business at WTSP-TV in Tampa Bay, earning national Murrow, Polk, duPont, and Cronkite awards.

On Twitter: @NoahPransky

Brant Houston is Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois. He served as IRE's executive director from 1997 through 2007. Before that, he was an award-winning investigative reporter at daily newsrooms. He is author of “Computer-Assisted Reporting" and co-author of “The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook,” and co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

On Twitter: @branthouston

Helen Santoro is a science and investigative journalist based out of rural Colorado where she covers health and LGBTQ communities with a focus on health disparities and inequities. This year, she received a Fund for Investigative Journalism grant and a FIRE Consultancy for contract-related legal assistance for an investigative story into the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine.

On Twitter: @helenwsantoro

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. He serves on the board of directors for both IRE and the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.

On Twitter: @hinklej

Derek Kravitz is MuckRock's data and investigations editor. He is also working on grant-funded initiatives through Columbia and Stanford's Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Previously, he was the research director at ProPublica and a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and The Washington Post. Kravitz has also been a part of three teams that have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He can be reached at derek@muckrock.com.

On Twitter: @derekkravitz

Lise Olsen is the author of CODE OF SILENCE, which won the IRE Book award in 2022 and examines major flaws in the federal judicial misconduct system. Her book reveals how a federal judge got away with sexually assaulting his own employees for years before finally being prosecuted and impeached. Now senior editor and reporter at the Texas Observer, Olsen is a former IRE board member whose work has also appeared in documentaries on CNN and A & E and in other publications.

On Twitter: @lisedigger

Jeanne Pinder is founder/CEO of ClearHealthCosts, a journalism no-longer-startup bringing transparency to healthcare by telling people what things cost. ClearHealthCosts partners with media organizations on consumer-friendly investigations to report on and crowdsource health costs. When the pandemic hit, CHC pivoted to also cover COVID-19. Priors: The New York Times; Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University; Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY.

On Twitter: @chcosts

Dillon Collier is an investigative reporter with KSAT 12 TV in San Antonio. He specializes in holding the powerful accountable, exposing government waste and shedding light on violations of public trust. The work of Dillon's team has been honored by the Lone Star EMMY Chapter, the Houston Press Club and the Texas Headliners Foundation, among others.

On Twitter: @dilloncollier

Amy Davis is an investigative reporter at KPRC 2 in Houston, where she focuses on consumer issues. She joined IRE 24 years ago when she accepted her first on-air reporting job in Beaumont, Texas. She has also reported in Asheville, North Carolina, and San Antonio. Her reporting has landed scam artists in prison and changed multiple state laws and local ordinances to help protect consumers and their hard-earned money.

On Twitter: @KPRC2Amy

Investigative producer Barb Markoff has been with ABC for 25 years, spending the majority of her career in Chicago with stints in San Francisco and New York. She tackles stories on public corruption, terrorism, organized crime and police misconduct. Markoff’s investigation of former IL Governor Rod Blagojevich exposed negligence and mismanagement in his office. She covered both Blagojevich trials and worked on the recent documentary “Being Blago.”

On Twitter: @BarbMarkoffABC7

Tisha is an investigative reporter appearing on multiple platforms, including SportsCenter, OTL, E:60, SCFeatured, espn.com & The Daily podcast. She worked in local television prior to ESPN and has been lucky enough to receive more than 100 awards and honors, including Peabody, Emmy, Murrow, Gracie, Loeb, Telly, National Headliner, AP, and Sigma Delta Chi awards. She loves IRE with a passion and credits it and its members with so much of her professional success.

On Twitter: @tishaESPN

Jessica Huseman is the editorial director of Votebeat, a non-profit newsroom covering elections in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas. She is the owner of The Friendly State News, which offers low-cost and free journalism training to local newsrooms, students and freelancers.

On Twitter: @jessicahuseman

George Joseph covers the borough of Brooklyn for THE CITY, a site covering New York City news. He focuses on local politics, criminal justice and housing issues. He previously worked for WNYC and Gothamist, and has published stories with NPR, ProPublica, Esquire and The Intercept, among other outlets. Reach him with tips at 929-486-4865.

On Twitter: @georgejoseph94

John Santucci serves as executive editorial producer for ABC News leading political investigations. Prior to this, Santucci covered Donald Trump from his first campaign to the White House, including leading the network's coverage of the Mueller investigation and two impeachments of Trump. He has held multiple roles with Good Morning America and This Week.

On Twitter: @Santucci

Rebecca Aguilar is a freelance reporter based in Dallas. She has been recognized with 50 awards and nominations for her work in journalism, including investigations that uncovered a corrupt Texas school district, 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

Cary Aspinwall is a staff writer for The Marshall Project. Previously, her work at The Dallas Morning News won the Gerald Loeb Award for reporting on a Texas company's history of deadly natural gas explosions. She was a Pulitzer finalist for her work exposing flaws in Oklahoma's execution process and co-founded The Frontier, a nonprofit devoted to investigative journalism in Oklahoma.

On Twitter: @caryaspinwall

Jennifer Gollan is a reporter for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Al Jazeera's Fault Lines program. Her reporting has spurred new laws and oversight. Gollan’s investigation exposing how scores of people are killed by abusers carrying illegal weapons won the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award. Her other honors include an Emmy Award and the Hillman Prize for web journalism.

On Twitter: @jennifergollan

Robert J. Lopez is a senior accountability reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He was part of a team of Times journalists awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service for stories that uncovered corruption in the small city of Bell, near Los Angeles. He has investigated issues involving immigration, crime and corruption across the U.S. and in Mexico and Central America.

On Twitter: @LAJourno

Lexi Churchill is a research reporter for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative team, where she navigates state and federal FOIA laws to tell records-driven accountability stories. Most recently, Churchill worked on an investigation into the systematic failures that led to the worst carbon monoxide poisoning event in recent history, which was named the best investigation of 2021 by the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Headliners Foundation of Texas.

On Twitter: @LChurchilll

Marisa Kwiatkowski is an investigative reporter at USA TODAY and an IRE Board member. Her work has spurred multiagency investigations, criminal charges, resignations and changes to federal law and state policy. Marisa has earned more than 50 journalism awards throughout her career. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Grand Valley State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Indiana University.

On Twitter: @byMarisaK

Lam Thuy Vo is a journalist who marries data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She is currently a Soros Justice Fellow and a data-journalist-in-residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, she worked for BuzzFeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America and NPR's Planet Money.

On Twitter: @lamthuyvo

Shannon covers the rural economy for The Colorado Sun, where she’s written about everything from coal communities seeking a new economic future to a 600-person town running out of drinking water. Previously, she was a reporter at The Texas Tribune. Her stories have prompted the passage of three state laws.

On Twitter: @shannonnajma

Veronica Penney is a data reporter on Colorado Public Radio's investigations team. She previously worked at The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Miami Herald.

On Twitter: @veronica_penney

Kevin Vaughan is an investigative reporter for KUSA-TV 9NEWS, Denver’s NBC affiliate. He previously reported for the Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post and FOX Sports. His 2007 Rocky series “The Crossing” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is on the boards of Criminal Justice Journalists and the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, is president of the Denver Press Club, and is co-author the New York Times best seller “The Ledge."

On Twitter: @writerkev

Evan Wyloge is a data and investigative reporter at The Colorado Springs Gazette.

On Twitter: @evanwyloge

Eric Ferrero serves as Executive Director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism, which provides grants and other support directly to reporters in the U.S. for groundbreaking stories that have an impact. Ferrero brings 20 years of leadership experience at some of the country’s most influential nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, and he has a deep background supporting journalists and the field of journalism.

On Twitter: @ericferrero

Taylor Moore is a program coordinator at the International Women's Media Foundation, where she helps manage grants, fellowship and awards. As a journalist, she has been published in The Guardian, Vice and the Chicago Reader, and she is also a member of Asian American Journalists Association. She is based in Chicago, Illinois.

On Twitter: @taylormooresays

Jane Sasseen is the founding executive director of the McGraw Center for Business Journalism, which was created in 2014 to support high-quality, in-depth business news coverage.

She oversees the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, which provides grants and editorial support to experienced journalists working on investigative and enterprise stories on critical issues related to the U.S. economy and business. She also dispenses scholarships and internship stipends to students concentrating on business journalism.

On Twitter: @janesasseen

Noy Thrupkaew is a reporting fellow at Type Investigations focused on human rights and labor reporting, and director of the Ida B. Wells Fellowship program.

Paul Cheung leads The Center for Public Integrity as CEO. Previously, he managed a multi-million dollars investment portfolio at the Knight Foundation. Cheung has 20 years of experience in leading digital transformation at media outlets including NBC News Digital, The Associated Press, The Miami Herald, and The Wall Street Journal.

On Twitter: @pcheung630

Karen Rundlet joined Knight Foundation in November 2015.

She is a director in the Journalism Program. Rundlet works to identify methods, models, programs and projects that will lead to a financially sustainable future for local news, as well as prepare leaders who will manage, partner and serve diverse, digital teams and audiences. Her portfolio includes grantees such as City Bureau, NewsMatch, Sahan Journal, and Solutions Journalism Network.

Dutch-born Henk van Ess has trained Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists of the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and NBC in open source research: the art of finding information that is in plain sight. Among his many positions are assessor for Poynter's IFCN, trainer for Global Investigative Journalism Network, and instructor for highly regarded worldwide bootcamps. He combines lateral thinking with literal thinking. This is only his second appearance at IRE.

Joe is a researcher at the Computational Policy Lab at Stanford University with a background in software engineering. He builds tools to quantify disparities and intervene to help remediate them. While most of his projects focus on racial and economic disparities in the criminal justice system, he has a broad interest in inequitable policies in media, technology, housing and other domains. His work has appeared in the Washington Post and PNAS.

Cheryl Phillips teaches at Stanford and is founder of Big Local News. Previously, Phillips worked at The Seattle Times for 12 years. She has twice worked on breaking news which received Pulitzer Prizes and has twice been on teams that were Pulitzer finalists. Phillips has worked in journalism so long that she used to file stories with a TRS-80. She served for 10 years on the IRE board and is a former board president.

On Twitter: @cephillips

Robert Cribb is founder and director of the Investigative Journalism Bureau and an investigative reporter at the Toronto Star. He has received national and international reporting awards for investigations into offshore tax evasion, child exploitation, human trafficking, dangerous doctors, environmental threats and public safety.

On Twitter: @thecribby

Jenifer McKim is a deputy investigative editor at GBH News in Boston. She is a multimedia journalist, focusing on social justice issues. McKim is a recipient of numerous awards, including the national Edward R. Murrow Award, a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and a finalist nod for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. She was a 2008 fellow for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and speaks fluent Spanish.

On Twitter: @jbmckim

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and one-time finalist, Martha Mendoza’s reports have prompted Congressional hearings and new legislation, Pentagon investigations and White House responses.

On Twitter: @mendozamartha

In 2019, Esther Honig left public radio to be an independent journalist. She now reports from Mexico and from her home in Colorado on the intersection of immigration and agriculture. Honig produces investigative pieces for print and audio. Her bylines have appeared in Mother Jones Magazine, Snap Judgment and Latino USA, among others. She is a contributing writer at the Food and Environment Reporting Network and a UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Fellow.

On Twitter: @EstherHonig

Chandra Thomas Whitfield is an award-winning multimedia journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Essence, Ebony, NBCNews.com, NPR.org and The Huffington Post. In 2020, she completed a Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting fellowship with In These Times magazine, during which she hosted & produced the award-winning In The Gap podcast about how pay inequity and discrimination impacts the lives – and livelihoods – of Black women.

On Twitter: @ChandraWrites

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Anna Hewson is an investigative producer and photojournalist at KUSA-TV 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado, which she joined in 2004. She previously spent six years at WKBW-TV in Buffalo. A graduate of the University of Sussex, she has been honored numerous times for her work, including an IRE Award and a duPont-Columbia Award. But her most beloved is her Peabody, a six-year-old Dingo she found at a puppy rescue.

On Twitter: @annahewson1

Curious Person. Humorous Photographer. Digger. Constant Creative Thinker. Innovator. Formerly WHAS and WEWS. You can look up the rest, we’re all investigators here.

On Twitter: @bmpeak

Recently promoted to Executive Producer of Investigative Content at Cox Media Group (CMG), Josh spent the past 20 years as an Investigative Producer/Photographer at CMG’s WSB-TV in Atlanta. He began his career in 1996 as a general assignment photographer in Austin (KVUE) followed by Seattle (KING). Much of Josh's work focuses on consumer issues and warnings that impact everyday people including the defects, recalls and safety issues in our cars, trucks, and planes.

Rick Yarborough is the senior investigative platform manager for the NEWS4 I-Team at NBC Washington. He’s been honored with national awards, including a Peabody, duPont-Columbia University, Gerald Loeb Award, Scripps Howard Foundation, National Headliners and Fourth Estate Award, along with multiple regional Emmys and Murrows. Rick also serves as the Lead for the OUT Employee Resource Group for LGBTQ & Ally Employees in DC.

On Twitter: @ricknbc

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 managing editor. In her new role, Andy also manages the Tribune’s fellowship program, which employs student fellows to work not just in the newsroom, but in all areas of the organization, including events, product development and marketing.

On Twitter: @aalford

Ade is the managing editor for The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, part of Louisville Public Media. He came to KyCIR in June from Injustice Watch, an investigative newsroom in Chicago where he served as a reporter and then co-editor before his promotion to editor-in-chief in Fall 2020. He's worked as a reporter at Chalkbeat, the Chicago Reporter, The Chicago Sun-Times, and DNAinfo. Ade is also a 2022 Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program fellow.

On Twitter: @public_ade

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.

On Twitter: @WatchdogDiva

Keri Blakinger is an investigative reporter at The Marshall Project. Previously she worked for the Houston Chronicle and the New York Daily News. Before becoming a reporter she spent time in prison and her memoir, Corrections in Ink, publishes in June 2022.

On Twitter: @keribla

New York Times investigative reporter. Awarded three Pulitzers and four George Polk Awards. Co-author, "When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm," which tells the story of power without accountability and how consultants became enablers of opioid makers, autocrats and predatory corporations. Formerly with 60 Minutes and The Wall Street Journal.

On Twitter: @waltbogdanich1

"Not funny," says Anita Hassan. "Laugh-out-loud funny," says The Washington Post. Probably droll at best. Author, "Pandemic, Inc." Reporter, ProPublica. Coping in Washington, D.C. by way of Texas, Florida and Colorado.

On Twitter: @davidmcswane

Josh has spent 35 years reporting on law enforcement and intelligence issues, including terrorism and trafficking in drugs, weapons and humans. Prior to joining USA Today in 2021, he was a senior investigative reporter at Politico, NBC News, and for 20 years, a national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times. His coverage of al-Qaeda later became "The Hunt For KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."

On Twitter: @JoshMeyerDC

Melissa Korn writes about higher education for The Wall Street Journal. She's been with Dow Jones since 2007; prior beats included alcohol and tobacco, student lenders, for-profit colleges and business schools. Melissa is co-author of "UNACCEPTABLE: Privilege, Deceit and the Making of the College Admissions Scandal." She holds degrees from Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and, like so many writers, lives in Brooklyn.

On Twitter: @melissakorn

Lavigne is an investigative reporter for ESPN. She has investigated sexual assault and other crimes in sports, bribery in college basketball, sports gambling, athlete medical care and other issues. Lavigne has received the George Foster Peabody Award, an Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Award, multiple IRE awards and two Sports Emmy nominations, among other awards. She co-authored "Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University Amid College Football’s Sexual Assault Crisis.”

On Twitter: @pinepaula

Alexis Timko is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California, where she studied journalism and history. At USC, Timko founded the investigations desk at Annenberg Media, where she probed the university about issues related to sexual assault and corruption. She will be joining the Los Angeles Times investigations team this summer as an intern and will return to USC in the fall to complete her Master’s in Public Diplomacy.

On Twitter: @AlexisTimko

Josh helps to coordinate crime and terrorism coverage for all programs and platforms of ABC News. He also produces longform investigative pieces for GMA, World News Tonight, 20/20, Nightline, This Week and ABC News Live.

On Twitter: @JoshMargolin

Katelyn Polantz is a senior reporter for CNN in Washington, D.C., specializing in legal coverage. She writes about courts, politically sensitive investigations and the separation of powers, and she won an Emmy in 2020 for reporting on the arrest of Roger Stone. Coupling source reporting with public records efforts, Katelyn’s work has led to the release of thousands of government documents. She previously was a reporter at the National Law Journal, PBS NewsHour and the Roanoke Times.

On Twitter: @kpolantz

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Pierre Thomas is the Chief Justice Correspondent for ABC News. He joined the network in November 2000 and reports for “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” and all platforms including ABC News Radio and Digital.

Chuck Tobin is a litigator, former journalist and the practice leader of Ballard Spahr's 40-lawyer Media and Entertainment Law Group. He defends the media in libel and privacy lawsuits throughout the country. Chuck is past chair of the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law and the D.C. Bar and Florida Bar Media & Communications Law Committees, and the Media Law Resource Center's Defense Counsel Section. He is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

Samah Assad is a Peabody and IRE Award-winning investigative producer and data journalist with CBS Chicago. Her work focuses on uncovering inequities and systemic failures in policing, sexual assault cases and more. She aims to provide a platform to voices in historically disenfranchised communities.

On Twitter: @sassadnews

Shay McAlister is an anchor and investigative journalist at WHAS11 in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the host of the chart-topping true crime podcast "Bardstown" and was featured in the Netflix series "Tiger King." Shay graduated with a broadcast journalism degree from the University of Missouri and has focused on crime and community since starting in the business as a weekend general assignment reporter.

On Twitter: @shaymcalisterTV

PJ Randhawa is an award winning investigative reporter with a decade of experience across four TV news markets. Currently she heads up KING5's Facing Race unit, as Tegna's first Investigative Race & Equity Reporter

On Twitter: @pj_ontv

Dorothy Tucker is a Chicago native, raised in Chicago's Lawndale and Austin communities. She has been a reporter for CBS2 Chicago since 1984. Currently, she is a reporter on the station's 2 Investigator team and is also President of the National Association of Black Journalists.

On Twitter: @dorothyTV2

Snr Investigative Reporter with Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, I have held this position for the last 10 years, prior to that I spent over 10 years as a Reporter for the BBC's flagship current affairs and investigative program "Panorama." During this time I have won and been nominated for numerous awards, including awards from BAFTA, Royal Television Society, AIB's, DIG Awards and others.

On Twitter: @Simonboazman

Emily Hopkins is an Abrams Reporting Fellow at ProPublica, where they have reported on inequities in Chicago's speed and red-light ticketing and medical exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine among nursing home workers. Before joining ProPublica, Hopkins was an investigative reporter for The Indianapolis Star.

On Twitter: @indyemapolis

Gloria Liu is a freelance journalist. Previously, she was the features editor at Outside Magazine.

On Twitter: @thats_my_line

Jodi Upton is the Knight Chair in Data and Explanatory Journalism at Syracuse University. She has won numerous awards for her previous work leading the USA TODAY data team and her students have won awards for investigative and data stories published in USA TODAY Network, CNN and other outlets. She was a Stanford University JSK Fellow and has nearly $1M in grants. She is currently a Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics consultant and IRE Board Treasurer.

On Twitter: @jodiupton

Juan Pablo is a Chilean journalist focused on urban affairs, currently working for the housing research center Eviction Lab at Princeton University. He previously worked at Texas Tribune, In The Thick podcast, CityLab/Univision, El Diario New York and NY1. He is based in Portland, Oregon.

Alden Loury leads the race, class and communities desk at WBEZ-FM, Chicago’s NPR member station. The desk’s three reporters cover matters of race, inequality, housing, immigration, employment and demographics. As a reporter, editor, research director and policy analyst, documenting segregation and racial inequality in housing, education, employment, the criminal justice system, economic development and politics have been a focus of Alden’s work for more than 20 years.

On Twitter: @AldenLoury

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Cheryl W. Thompson is an investigative correspondent and senior editor for investigations at NPR, overseeing investigations for member stations. Before joining NPR in 2019, she spent 22 years as an investigative and beat reporter with The Washington Post, where she wrote about guns, police, immigration, and politics. Her stories have won myriad awards, including an Emmy, two IRE and National Headliner awards, and three NABJ awards. She also was on the team that won two Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting: in 2002 for 9/11, and 2016 for police shootings. She received NPR’s 2021 public service journalism award given annually to one journalist, and was the reporting coach on the network’s podcast, “No Compromise,” which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting. In 2018, Cheryl was elected IRE’s first Black president, and served three terms in that role.

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Sukey Lewis is a criminal justice correspondent and host of "On Our Watch," an award-winning podcast from NPR and KQED about the shadow world of police discipline. In 2018, she co-founded the California Reporting Project, a coalition of newsrooms across the state focused on obtaining previously sealed internal affairs records from law enforcement. Sukey earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.

On Twitter: @sukeylewis

Kate Mishkin is a producer for Neon Hum, an LA-based podcast studio that specializes in narrative audio. Her most recent podcast, produced in partnership with CNN, spent nearly a month at #1 on podcast charts. Before that, she covered energy and the environment at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, where she also produced a weekly podcast.

On Twitter: @KateMishkin

Al Tompkins is one of America's most requested broadcast journalism and multimedia teachers and coaches. After nearly 30 years working as a reporter, photojournalist, producer, investigative reporter, head of special investigations and News Director, Tompkins joined the Poynter Institute where he is Senior Faculty for Broadcast and Online. He is the author of "Aim for the Heart" a textbook about multimedia storytelling that has been adopted by more than 100 universities worldwide. He has taught in 49 states, Canada, Egypt, Denmark, South Africa, Iceland and the Caymans.

On Twitter: @atompkins

Maurice Chammah is a staff writer at The Marshall Project and the author of "Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty," which won the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Book Award. He was on a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He lives in Austin, Texas.

On Twitter: @MauriceChammah

Adam M. Rhodes is a nobinary, first-generation, Cuban American journalist whose work primarily focuses on queer people and the criminal justice system. Their recent work has examined HIV treatment access in Puerto Rico, HIV criminalization in Illinois, and a homophobic capital murder trial. Rhodes was most recently a staff writer and social justice reporter at the Chicago Reader, and they have been published in outlets including BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post.

On Twitter: @byadamrhodes

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.

On Twitter: @WatchdogDiva

Robyn Vincent is an investigative reporter for the NPR member station KUNC in Northern Colorado. Before this role, she was KUNC's Mountain West News Bureau reporter. She built the bureau's first inequality beat and directed projects with reporters across the West that examined the region's appetite for equity. She also built and launched a news department at a small public radio station in Wyoming and was editor in chief of an alternative weekly newspaper there.

On Twitter: @TheNomadicHeart

Nicole is an investigative reporter at Insider. She has investigated misconduct at major Wall Street firms, a MLM essential oil company, and the “Judge Judy” show. A 2021 investigation revealed that top California education officials helped sell access to state public schools to elite Chinese students. She recently received a grant for criminal justice reporting from Columbia University's Lipman Center, and her work has been recognized by SABEW and the LA Press Club.

On Twitter: @NicoleEinbinder

Mendelson is a reporter focusing on threats to democracy at The Center For Public Integrity, which he joined in June 2022. Previously, he worked at Southern California Radio for more than seven years as a data and investigative reporter. His work there included investigations into an empire of slum housing, a troubled nursing home chain and a sheriff's deputy who shot at four people in seven months. His work has been recognized with a Loeb Award and an IRE Award.

On Twitter: @a_mendelson

Bow serves as a deputy bureau chief for WSJ’s corporate news team. He previously was a technology news editor and spot news editor at the Journal. Before joining WSJ in 2017, he was business editor at the Cincinnati Enquirer. He also worked in roles at the Northwest Indiana Times, Sun-Sentinel, Detroit Free Press, Crain's Detroit Business and Automotive News. He earned a journalism degree from Wayne State University and a MBA from Miami (OH) University.

On Twitter: @BowKnowsBiz

Sarah Butrymowicz is senior editor for investigations at the Hechinger Report. Prior to assuming that role, she spent four years as a staff writer covering K12 and higher education and two years as Hechinger's data editor. Her work has appeared in dozens of outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC News, and she has been honored with several journalism awards.

On Twitter: @sarahbutro

Thomas Peele is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for EdSource.org, a nonprofit newsroom that covers education in California. He’s been a journalist since 1983, winning more than 75 reporting awards. He was the Chauncey Bailey Project’s lead reporter. It investigated journalist Bailey’s 2007 killing and was widely credited with forcing California authorities to bring his killers to justice. Peele wrote a book about the case, "Killing the Messenger."

On Twitter: @thomas_peele

Kenny Jacoby is an investigative reporter for USA TODAY who covers sexual assault and harassment, Title IX, policing, and college sports. His reporting on mishandled sexual misconduct and abuse complaints at LSU and Cal State prompted outside investigations, firings, and reforms. Sensitive interviews, public records, and data analysis form the foundation of his stories. He graduated from University of Oregon, where he studied journalism and computer science.

On Twitter: @kennyjacoby

Lavigne is an investigative reporter for ESPN. She has investigated sexual assault and other crimes in sports, bribery in college basketball, sports gambling, athlete medical care and other issues. Lavigne has received the George Foster Peabody Award, an Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Award, multiple IRE awards and two Sports Emmy nominations, among other awards. She co-authored "Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University Amid College Football’s Sexual Assault Crisis.”

On Twitter: @pinepaula

W. Scott Lewis, J.D., is a managing partner with TNG Consulting and a co-founder and advisory board member of the Association of Title IX Administrators. He has trained thousands of people on how to properly investigate matters of sexual harassment and other types of civil rights harassment and discrimination, and he has presented prevention education workshops in these areas and in threat assessment and harm prevention.

Lakeidra Chavis is a staff writer for The Marshall Project. She has written on wide-ranging topics including the rise in Black suicides during the pandemic, the changing structure of gangs, the opioid crisis and victim compensation. Lakeidra previously reported at The Trace, ProPublica Illinois and NPR stations in Chicago and Alaska. Lakeidra is a 2021 Livingston Award finalist.

On Twitter: @lakeidrachavis

Gary Harki is the investigations editor at Bloomberg Law. His 2020 investigation into the strip-searching of children by Virginia prisons led to the halt of the practice and numerous changes to state law. In 2019 he won the Al Nakkula Award honoring outstanding police reporting for his series on jailing people with mental illness. Previous stops include Spotlight PA, The Virginian-Pilot, The O’Brien Fellowship for Public Service Journalism and The Charleston Gazette.

On Twitter: @garyharki

Cassandra Jaramillo (she/her) is a reporter for Reveal, focusing on police accountability and threats to democracy. She previously was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News, where she covered the Dallas Police Department and criminal justice issues.

On Twitter: @cassandrajar

Peggy Lowe is a veteran investigative reporter based at KCUR, NPR’s member station in Kansas City. Her work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Here & Now and Marketplace. Lowe was the Mike Wallace Fellow for Investigative Reporting at the University of Michigan’s Knight-Wallace Fellowship in 2008-2009.

On Twitter: @peggyllowe

Alfredo Carbajal is managing editor for Al Día at The Dallas Morning News, where he leads the Hispanic Audience Initiative. He co-leads the News Leaders Association's Emerging Leaders Institute. He’s a former president of the American Society of News Editors. Carbajal has a degree in Journalism from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP,) and was a 2009 fellow at the Punch Sulzberger Executive News Media Program at Columbia University.

On Twitter: @CarbajalNews

Kelly Garcia is a staff reporter for the Chicago Reader's new Racial Justice Reporting Hub and Writer's Room. She writes about local politics with a focus on Chicago's Latinx communities. Before that, she was freelancing for a variety of Chicago-based outlets including Injustice Watch, South Side Weekly, The TriiBE and City Bureau.

Barbara Rodriguez is a reporter at The 19th, where she covers statehouses, local politics and gender. She currently serves on the IRE board of directors.

On Twitter: @bcrodriguez

Jeremy Finley is a two-time IRE award recipient. A twenty-time regional Emmy winner, he is also the recipient of a national Edward R. Murrow award, a national Headliner award, and four regional Edward R. Murrow awards. A published novelist, his debut novel was named one of the best books of 2018 by People Magazine and a must-read by the New York Post. He is the chief investigative reporter at WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennesee, where he lives with his wife and daughters.

On Twitter: @jfinleyreports

Duane Pohlman is chief investigative reporter and Anchor at WKRC-TV and a national investigative reporter for “Spotlight on America.” He has been honored with hundreds of awards, including being named Best Reporter 19 times in five states. Pohlman is the co-founder and president of the Ohio Center for Journalism (Eye On Ohio), chair of SPJ’s Professional Standards & Ethics Committee, and chair of the Journalism Advisory Board at BGSU. He is a past IRE Vice President.

On Twitter: @DUANELOCAL12

Sarah Rafique is an investigative producer at ABC13 in Houston, where she specializes in data reporting, government accountability and solutions for viewers.

On Twitter: @SarahRafique

Andrea Hickerson, Ph.D., is incoming Dean and Professor in the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. Previously she was the Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina and Director of the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology. Hickerson is part of an interdisciplinary team building a deepfake detection tool for journalists.

On Twitter: @aehickerson

Christoph Koettl is a Visual Investigations journalist with the New York Times video team, specializing in the analysis of satellite imagery, video and other visual evidence. He was part of a team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for coverage of the civilian toll of U.S. air and drone strikes.

On Twitter: @ckoettl

Matt Wright, PhD, is a professor of computing security and director of research for the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Wright earned his PhD in computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005 and is the winner of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, including numerous works appearing in the top venues in computer and network security and privacy.

On Twitter: @wrightmk

Singer runs the GBH News Center for investigative Reporting and has led the unit's Color of Public Money series, which forced the governor to create a new state agency in 2021. Prior to coming to GBH in 2018, Singer ran political coverage for USA TODAY in Washington, D.C., and spent years investigating members of Congress.

On Twitter: @singernews

Jill Geisler is the person newsrooms turn to for first-class leadership and healthy cultures. The veteran journalist holds the Bill Plante Chair in Leadership and Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago and is the Freedom Forum’s Fellow in Women’s Leadership, heading its Power Shift Project – an industry-wide effort created in the wake of the #MeToo scandals in media. Her Workplace Integrity curriculum has become part of news organizations across the country.

On Twitter: @JillGeisler

Matt Apuzzo is the international investigative editor for the New York Times, based in Brussels. A former IRE board member, he has been part of three Pulitzer-winning teams for investigative, national and public service reporting.

Jennifer Forsyth is Deputy Chief of Investigations at The Wall Street Journal. She managed a collaboration with PBS’s 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.

On Twitter: @ForsythJenn

Emmanuel Martinez is an investigative data reporter for The Washington Post. He previously held the same position at The Markup, the nonprofit newsroom that focuses on tech and algorithmic accountability, and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting.

On Twitter: @eh_mah_nwel

Katie Townsend is the deputy executive director and legal director at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (www.rcfp.org), a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. She oversees the litigation, amicus and other legal work of Reporters Committee attorneys, and she represents the Reporters Committee, news organizations and individual journalists in court access, freedom of information and other First Amendment and press freedom matters.

On Twitter: @katie_rcfp

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Before moving to the American South to begin teaching journalism at UNC Chapel Hill, cross-platform investigative journalist Erin Siegal McIntyre was based on the border in Tijuana, Mexico for around a decade. Her award-winning book “Finding Fernanda” was optioned by Lion’s Gate in 2022, and previously was the basis for an hour-long CBS investigation that earned an Emmy. Her work has been published by the New Yorker, the New York Times, and many others.

On Twitter: @ESMcIntyre

Melissa del Bosque is a Lannan reporting fellow with Type Investigations. Her investigative reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration, government surveillance and national security has been featured in numerous publications including: ProPublica, The Intercept, The Guardian, Texas Monthly and The Texas Observer. She is the author of “Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty” (Ecco, 2017).

On Twitter: @MelissaLaLinea

Robert Barba is a news editor on the U.S. News desk of The Wall Street Journal and is a recent Pulitzer Prize finalist for his involvement with The Journal's 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre project. He joined The Journal's breaking news desk as an editor in 2018.

On Twitter: @barbawire

I cover public safety at the Houston Chronicle. Since 2014, I've covered several hurricanes, three unprecedented floods, two major industrial explosions, numerous mass shootings, a catastrophic freeze, a serial bomber, multiple lethal fires, and dozens of fatal police shootings. Ask me about my dog, Scoop!

On Twitter: @stjbs

Maya is a visual producer for ProPublica's audience team.

On Twitter: @mayaeliahou

Kathy Best is the founding director of the Howard Center at the University of Maryland, which teaches investigative skills by working with students to produce national projects. She was previously the executive editor of The Seattle Times and Missoulian in Montana and was one of the top editors at The Sun, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She is enjoying the heck out of giving back to the profession she loves.

On Twitter: @kbest

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein is the founder and executive director of the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ) and the Padnos/Sarosik Endowed Chair of Civil Discourse at Grand Valley State University. His work has prompted local, state, national, and international impact while earning national and international recognition. A Fulbright Scholar, specialist and teacher, he has written or edited six books.

On Twitter: @JeffKLO

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and one-time finalist, Martha Mendoza’s reports have prompted Congressional hearings and new legislation, Pentagon investigations and White House responses.

On Twitter: @mendozamartha

Azmat Khan is a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter with the New York Times Magazine and an Asst. Professor at Columbia Journalism School, where she leads the Li Center for Global Journalism. Khan's investigations have exposed major myths of war and their human costs, prompting policy impact from Washington to Kabul and winning more than a dozen awards, including two National Magazine Awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, and the Polk Award, among others.

On Twitter: @AzmatZahra

Nicole Lewis is an award-winning journalist. She currently serves as the senior editor of the Juris section at Slate Magazine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Marshall Project, Mother Jones, and The Guardian among other publications.

On Twitter: @Nikki_Lew

Nicole Santa Cruz is a reporter covering issues of inequality in the Southwest. She joined ProPublica from the Los Angeles Times, where she spent nearly 12 years as a staff writer.

On Twitter: @nicolesantacruz

Lam Thuy Vo is a journalist who marries data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She is currently a Soros Justice Fellow and a data-journalist-in-residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, she worked for BuzzFeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America and NPR's Planet Money.

On Twitter: @lamthuyvo

Dutch-born Henk van Ess has trained Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists of the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and NBC in open source research: the art of finding information that is in plain sight. Among his many positions are assessor for Poynter's IFCN, trainer for Global Investigative Journalism Network, and instructor for highly regarded worldwide bootcamps. He combines lateral thinking with literal thinking. This is only his second appearance at IRE.

Erica Byfield is an multi award-winning journalist who is currently a general assignment reporter for WNBC in New York City. Originally from California she’s also worked for KMOU, KFVS, KMOV and WSB. Prior to her time in NY she served as an investigative reporter for WSB. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master’s degree from Gonzaga University.

On Twitter: @EricaByfield4NY

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 ten 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

Christopher has been an investigative and political reporter at WFTV in Orlando, Florida, since 2013. His previous assignments have included covering Hurricane Katrina with the 1st Cavalry Division, the war in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division and telling the story of a haunted couch.

On Twitter: @CHeathWFTV

Sewell Chan joined The Texas Tribune as editor in chief in October 2021. Previously he was a deputy managing editor and then the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw coverage that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. From 2004 to 2018, he was a metro reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy Op-Ed editor and international news editor at The New York Times. He began his career in 2000 at The Washington Post.

On Twitter: @sewellchan

Danielle Ohl is a justice reporter for Spotlight PA. She previously covered the Pennsylvania General Assembly for Spotlight. She spent four years covering Annapolis for the Capital Gazette, where she earned a Pulitzer Prize special citation with her newsroom for covering the mass shooting of her own colleagues. She is mom to a very devilish cat named Wednesday.

On Twitter: @DTOhl

Maria Perez is an investigative reporter with USA Today. She has covered issues affecting immigrant communities for nearly a decade. She investigated Florida companies that profited from undocumented workers and reported them to law enforcement when they got hurt on the job. She has also written about corporate failures that led to one of the deathliest COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S. food processing industry and about labor violations suffered by foreign farmworkers.

On Twitter: @mariajpsl

Marisa Kwiatkowski is an investigative reporter at USA TODAY and an IRE Board member. Her work has spurred multiagency investigations, criminal charges, resignations and changes to federal law and state policy. Marisa has earned more than 50 journalism awards throughout her career. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Grand Valley State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Indiana University.

On Twitter: @byMarisaK

Miranda Spivack is a veteran journalist who specializes in stories about government accountability and secrecy. Her "State Secrets" https://revealnews.org/topic/state-secrets/ series showed the depth and breadth of efforts by state and local governments to keep secrets. Her "Clean Slate" series https://www.sacbee.com/profile/255620821 focused on the risks to police accountability of expungement of civilian criminal records, and keeping police discipline records secret.

On Twitter: @mirandareporter

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Brad Racino is Editor & Publisher for New York Cannabis Insider, the first publication dedicated to covering all angles and voices of NY's emerging cannabis marketplace, and to hosting the state's biggest and best industry networking events.

On Twitter: @bradracino

Mona Zhang is the States Cannabis Policy Reporter for POLITICO. Before joining POLITICO, she founded and edited the daily cannabis newsletter Word on the Tree. She was also a freelance journalist on the cannabis beat, and her work has appeared in Forbes, The Outline, Vice, High Times, and more.

Samah Assad is a Peabody and IRE Award-winning investigative producer and data journalist with CBS Chicago. Her work focuses on uncovering inequities and systemic failures in policing, sexual assault cases and more. She aims to provide a platform to voices in historically disenfranchised communities.

On Twitter: @sassadnews

Anna Hewson is an investigative producer and photojournalist at KUSA-TV 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado, which she joined in 2004. She previously spent six years at WKBW-TV in Buffalo. A graduate of the University of Sussex, she has been honored numerous times for her work, including an IRE Award and a duPont-Columbia Award. But her most beloved is her Peabody, a six-year-old Dingo she found at a puppy rescue.

On Twitter: @annahewson1

Curious Person. Humorous Photographer. Digger. Constant Creative Thinker. Innovator. Formerly WHAS and WEWS. You can look up the rest, we’re all investigators here.

On Twitter: @bmpeak

Taylor Mirfendereski is a KING 5 investigative journalist who specializes in longform digital journalism. Her investigations have uncovered many wrongs, such as the punishment of foster youth, violations of special education laws and misdiagnoses of child abuse. Taylor's work has garnered some of the country's top journalism awards, including two Peabody Awards, a Scripps Howard Award, two National Edward R. Murrow Awards and two NPPA Best of Photojournalism Awards.

On Twitter: @taylormirf

Barbara Rodriguez is a reporter at The 19th, where she covers statehouses, local politics and gender. She currently serves on the IRE board of directors.

On Twitter: @bcrodriguez

Rubinstein is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. His latest book, The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun + the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood (FSG) was a NYT Editors’ Choice + called a “shattering piece of investigative journalism.” His doc, THE HOLLY, premiered last month at Telluride Mountainfilm and won the Audience award. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, NYT Magazine + others. He is Visiting Professor of Documentary Journalism at the University of Denver.

On Twitter: @julian_rubinste

Jill Geisler is the person newsrooms turn to for first-class leadership and healthy cultures. The veteran journalist holds the Bill Plante Chair in Leadership and Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago and is the Freedom Forum’s Fellow in Women’s Leadership, heading its Power Shift Project – an industry-wide effort created in the wake of the #MeToo scandals in media. Her Workplace Integrity curriculum has become part of news organizations across the country.

On Twitter: @JillGeisler

Mark is a Peabody Award-winning journalist who leads the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit based in Washington, D.C. He's been a professional journalist for 23 years, in a career that's been distinguished by investigative and original reporting across the U.S. and around the world. Formerly at CBS News, he's also launched a news startup and taught graduate journalism students at Northwestern University and journalists in Pakistan and Vietnam.

On Twitter: @malbertnews

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John Kelly leads data journalism and investigations for ABC Owned Television Stations and leads collaborative investigations with ABC News, after two decades as a reporter, editor and data journalist at The Associated Press, USA TODAY and Florida Today. He's led dozens of award-winning investigations, including winner of the Goldsmith Prize in 2020, winners of Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2020 and 202, and a 2017 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

On Twitter: @jkelly3rd

Cheryl W. Thompson is an investigative correspondent and senior editor for investigations at NPR, overseeing investigations for member stations. Before joining NPR in 2019, she spent 22 years as an investigative and beat reporter with The Washington Post, where she wrote about guns, police, immigration, and politics. Her stories have won myriad awards, including an Emmy, two IRE and National Headliner awards, and three NABJ awards. She also was on the team that won two Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting: in 2002 for 9/11, and 2016 for police shootings. She received NPR’s 2021 public service journalism award given annually to one journalist, and was the reporting coach on the network’s podcast, “No Compromise,” which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting. In 2018, Cheryl was elected IRE’s first Black president, and served three terms in that role.

Leah Dunn is an investigative photographer and producer at WSBTV in Atlanta where she focuses on consumer issues. She also produces daily content for Consumer Adviser, Clark Howard. Nothing pleases her more than putting crummy people on blast for doing crummy things.

On Twitter: @LeahdunnWSB

Justin is an investigative reporter and the consumer investigator for WSB-TV. His investigations have brought changes to federal rules and lead to investigations by local, state & federal authorities. Previously he was the station’s Washington correspondent. He also was a reporter for WAGA-TV in Atlanta and worked as a reporter and anchor at stations in Philadelphia, California and West Virginia.

On Twitter: @JustinGrayWSB

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. He serves on the board of directors for both IRE and the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.

On Twitter: @hinklej

A.J. Lagoe is an investigative reporter for KARE 11 in Minneapolis. His reporting routinely leads to criminal convictions, legislative hearings, and has resulted in numerous new federal and state laws. A.J. is a two-time IRE Award winner and also the recipient of many of journalism’s other highest honors including the George Polk, Peabody, and multiple duPont-Columbia University awards.

On Twitter: @AJInvestigates

Avery is an investigative reporter in Austin, Texas. During the pandemic, Avery began reporting on issues facing older Texans, and her coverage of problems in Texas nursing homes won the AARP’s Outstanding Journalism Award in 2021. She started her career as a college intern for KXAN-TV, before moving to Lubbock, Texas, as a morning anchor and MMJ. Back in Austin, you’ll find her exploring the live music scene or out with her rescue dog, Tuxedo!

On Twitter: @averytravistv

Dubbed “the leading [U.S.] national watchdog of state and local economic development subsidies,” Greg directs Good Jobs First, a research center promoting accountability in economic development. His books include The Great American Jobs Scam, which Publishers Weekly called “...a parade of damning case studies showing why communities should not woo corporations with subsidies.” GJF is home to Subsidy Tracker, Tax Break Tracker, Violation Tracker, and Covid Stimulus Watch.

On Twitter: @GoodJobsFirst

Arlene Martinez, a former journalist who spent most of her career watchdogging local government, is communications director for Good Jobs First, a national non-profit resource center focused on government and corporate accountability in economic development. Arlene worked at Hispanic Link News Service, the LA Times, the (Allentown, Pa.) Morning Call, Ventura County Star and wrote the California newsletter for the USA TODAY Network.

On Twitter: @avmartinez

Roman Badanin is founder and editor-in-chief of Agentstvo (The Agency, in English), a collaboration of journalists who have been targeted by the Russian government for their investigative reporting into the most powerful forces in their country.

Axel Gordh Humlesjö (b. 1986) is an internationally acclaimed and Emmy-winning investigative reporter at the Swedish public broadcaster - SVT. He specializes in corruption, money laundering and cross border-reporting. His latest project “Bribes and Brothels - scandal at the headquarters of the world's leading security firm” (2022) revealed dirty secrets inside security giant Securitas. In 2019 he won IRE Awards for the documentary “Deceptive Diplomacy”

On Twitter: @axelhumlesjo

Martínez is an investigative journalist covering the energy and environment beats. He studied foreign languages at the University of Puerto Rico and earned a master’s degree at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/El País, in Spain. After working for El Nuevo Herald and El Nuevo Día newspapers, he joined the Center for Investigative Journalism team in 2012. His stories have earned him awards from the Puerto Rico Journalists Association and the Overseas Press Club.

On Twitter: @Elivanmartinez

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Joe Wertz is the climate and environment editor at CPR News. He joined CPR in 2020 after working as a senior investigative climate and environment reporter at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. He previously worked as the managing editor and a senior environment reporter at StateImpact Oklahoma, a journalism collaboration of public radio stations in Oklahoma, where he covered environment and energy issues for NPR audiences and other national outlets.

On Twitter: @joewertz

Michael is the research director at Issue One, a bipartisan political reform group based in DC. He previously worked as a reporter for more than 10 years at the Center for Public Integrity, OpenSecrets.org, Mother Jones and other outlets. Since September 2020, he has resided in Colorado and loves hiking in the mountains. Michael is happy to talk with reporters, on the record or on background, especially about campaign finance and election issues.

On Twitter: @mjbeckel

Sandra Fish is a data journalist focused on politics with the Colorado Sun.

On Twitter: @fishnette

Soorin Kim is a data reporter for ABC News’ Investigative Unit, specializing in the influence of money in politics, campaigns and lobbying. She also covers a wide range of other accountability stories using data and documents, from the personal finances of Biden administration officials to uncovering structural inequalities affecting marginalized communities across the country.

On Twitter: @SooRinKimm

Daphne is an investigative Reporter, primarily focused on covering courts and legal affairs.

On Twitter: @dd_writes

Bennett Haeberle is the chief investigative reporter with WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio. Bennett has previously reported at televisions stations in Louisville and Indianapolis. His work has been honored with regional Emmys, an Edward R. Murrow and most recently a National Headliner Award for his investigation into allegations of abuse inside a behavioral treatment center for teens. He's been an IRE member since 2014.

On Twitter: @bhaeberle

Marisa Kwiatkowski is an investigative reporter at USA TODAY and an IRE Board member. Her work has spurred multiagency investigations, criminal charges, resignations and changes to federal law and state policy. Marisa has earned more than 50 journalism awards throughout her career. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Grand Valley State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Indiana University.

On Twitter: @byMarisaK

Willoughby Mariano is an investigative reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She recently completed a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, where she studied concepts of housing, home and identity. 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 an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association.

On Twitter: @wmariano

Garance Burke is a global investigative journalist leading an Associated Press team probing the impacts of artificial intelligence technologies on our communities. Her stories have prompted federal investigations, cabinet-level resignations and hearings. Her work on the treatment of migrant children was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the subject of an Emmy-winning AP-FRONTLINE documentary. She was a John S Knight Journalism-Human-Centered AI Fellow at Stanford University.

On Twitter: @garanceburke

Eileen Guo is the senior reporter for features and investigations at MIT Technology Review, where her reporting focuses on how the tech industry shapes our world—often entrenching existing injustices and inequalities in the process. Her work has been supported by Type Investigations, where she was an Ida B. Wells fellow, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and the International Women’s Media Foundation.

On Twitter: @eileenguo

Emmanuel Martinez is an investigative data reporter for The Washington Post. He previously held the same position at The Markup, the nonprofit newsroom that focuses on tech and algorithmic accountability, and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting.

On Twitter: @eh_mah_nwel

Sasha Chavkin is an investigative reporter specializing in the environment, Latin America and public corruption. He is currently a 2022 Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow covering deforestation for NBC News and the Pulitzer Center. Chavkin was a reporter for ICIJ from 2013 to 2020, where he worked on major investigations such as the FinCEN Files and Paradise Papers. He was a 2021-22 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado.

On Twitter: @sashachavkin

Shirsho Dasgupta is a data/investigative reporter with the Washington Bureau of the Miami Herald/McClatchy newspapers. He has won multiple awards for stories ranging from financial crime to Florida's prison system and has been one of the Herald's lead reporters on international investigations like the Pandora Papers and FinCEN Files. He holds Master's degrees in both English and Journalism.

On Twitter: @ShirshoD

Emilia is data and research editor and Latin America coordinator for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. She has taken part in projects such as ICIJ's Implant Files, Pandora 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, 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

Jason Leopold is an investigative reporter. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. In 2020, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse identified Leopold as "the most active individual FOIA litigator in the United States today." In 2016, Leopold was awarded the FOI award from IRE and was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame by the Newseum Institute.

On Twitter: @jasonleopold

Matt Topic leads the FOIA Team at Loevy & Loevy and has litigated hundreds of state and federal FOIA cases.

On Twitter: @mvtopic

Katie Townsend is the deputy executive director and legal director at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (www.rcfp.org), a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. She oversees the litigation, amicus and other legal work of Reporters Committee attorneys, and she represents the Reporters Committee, news organizations and individual journalists in court access, freedom of information and other First Amendment and press freedom matters.

On Twitter: @katie_rcfp

Howard Berkes is a former investigations correspondent for NPR whose reporting on workplace safety, worker’s compensation, coal mine safety and the resurgence of black lung disease have garnered four IRE awards, including an IRE Medal. Berkes earned three dozen other journalism awards for business, health, sports, breaking news, science and feature reporting, and a Nieman Journalism Fellowship at Harvard University.

On Twitter: @hberkes

Rae Ellen Bichell is a Colorado Correspondent for KHN (Kaiser Health News), a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. She has been covering health & science for a decade, primarily in public radio.

On Twitter: @raelnb

Jim Morris is executive director and editor-in-chief of Public Health Watch. A journalist since 1978, he has received more than 80 awards for his work, including the George Polk award, the Sidney Hillman award, three National Association of Science Writers awards, two national Edward R. Murrow awards, two IRE awards and five Texas Headliners awards. Morris spent more than 13 years with the Center for Public Integrity as managing editor, acting CEO and executive editor.

On Twitter: @pubhealthwatch

April Simpson joined the Center for Public Integrity in October 2020 as a senior reporter covering racial equity. She was previously the rural issues reporter at Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Before joining Pew, April was associate editor of Current, where she covered public media and won recognition for her #MeToo investigation of a veteran reporter. April is a graduate of Smith College and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

On Twitter: @aprilleticia

Matt Dolan is investigations editor at the Detroit Free Press. Before that, Matt worked for a number of newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Virginian-Pilot and Philadelphia Inquirer. He was also a fellow at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.

On Twitter: @matthewsdolan

Kate Howard (she/her) is an investigative editor for Reveal. Previously, she was managing editor at the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. She spent nearly 14 years as a reporter, including stints at The Tennessean, The Florida Times-Union and the Omaha World-Herald. Her work has been the recipient of three national Investigative Reporters & Editors Awards and a Peabody nomination. Howard is based in Louisville, Kentucky.

On Twitter: @JournoKateH

Mark J. Rochester is inewsource managing editor, having previously served as editor in chief at Type Investigations in Manhattan. He has also been senior news director for investigations at the Detroit Free Press. Rochester, who served as a Pulitzer Prize jurist in 2017, also has held senior leadership positions at the Associated Press, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Denver Post, Newsday and The Indianapolis Star. He is a two-time IRE board member.

On Twitter: @mjrochester

Noah is the National Political Editor at NBCLX, a broadcast/streaming/cable network focused on explanatory and long-form journalism for GenZ and Millennial audiences. Prior to joining NBC, he covered investigations, politics, and sports business at WTSP-TV in Tampa Bay, earning national Murrow, Polk, duPont, and Cronkite awards.

On Twitter: @NoahPransky

Lois Beckett is a senior reporter at The Guardian, based in Los Angeles. She has reported on gun violence in America since 2013.

On Twitter: @loisbeckett

Abené Clayton is the lead reporter of the Guardian US series “Guns & Lies in America,” which launched in 2019. She started covering community gun violence in her hometown of Richmond, California, and is now based in Los Angeles.

On Twitter: @abene_writes

Cheryl W. Thompson is an investigative correspondent and senior editor for investigations at NPR, overseeing investigations for member stations. Before joining NPR in 2019, she spent 22 years as an investigative and beat reporter with The Washington Post, where she wrote about guns, police, immigration, and politics. Her stories have won myriad awards, including an Emmy, two IRE and National Headliner awards, and three NABJ awards. She also was on the team that won two Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting: in 2002 for 9/11, and 2016 for police shootings. She received NPR’s 2021 public service journalism award given annually to one journalist, and was the reporting coach on the network’s podcast, “No Compromise,” which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting. In 2018, Cheryl was elected IRE’s first Black president, and served three terms in that role.

Sarah Rafique is an investigative producer at ABC13 in Houston, where she specializes in data reporting, government accountability and solutions for viewers.

On Twitter: @SarahRafique

Todd Wallack is deputy managing editor of WBUR, an NPR affiliate in Boston. He previously spent eight years as an investigative reporter and data journalist on the Boston Globe's Spotlight team. Wallack was a Nieman fellow in 2019 and has won national awards for his articles on public records. He has worked on five projects that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

On Twitter: @twallack

Louise Kiernan is director of strategic initiatives at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. From 2017 to 2021, she launched and ran the first regional office of ProPublica and oversaw its expansion throughout the Midwest. Previously, she worked at the Chicago Tribune in a variety of editing and reporting roles. She has been a Pulitzer Prize winner, as lead writer on an explanatory reporting project, a Pulitzer finalist and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

On Twitter: @louisekiernan

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. He serves on the board of directors for both IRE and the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.

On Twitter: @hinklej

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Barbara Rodriguez is a reporter at The 19th, where she covers statehouses, local politics and gender. She currently serves on the IRE board of directors.

On Twitter: @bcrodriguez

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Winchester is the director of technology and online resources at Investigative Reporters & Editors, where he has also worked as a training director. Prior to joining IRE in 2017, he was a newspaper reporter, data specialist and web developer at newsrooms in Texas, Nebraska and South Dakota.