IRE 2024 schedule
166 sessions confirmed • Updated May 4 • All times are PT
166 sessions confirmed • Updated May 4 • All times are PT
IRE 2024 will run from Thursday, June 20, to Sunday, June 23 in Anaheim, at the Anaheim Marriott (700 West Convention Way, Anaheim, CA 92802).
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Welcome, first-timers! 👋
Time: Thursday, June 20, 8 – 8:45 a.m. (45 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
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Broadcast Track: 60 ideas in 60 minutes
Time: Thursday, June 20, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
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Broadcast Track: Fighting for time: How to make the most of your best investigations.
Time: Thursday, June 20, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Gold Key 1&2, lobby level
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Covering elections by putting the community first
Time: Thursday, June 20, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
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Dozens of newsrooms are giving up horse-race coverage in favor of investigating the issues — problems and solutions — that matter most to the community. By reporting on politicians' proposals and campaign promises on these key issues, they are holding politicians accountable. They're also making campaign coverage less toxic and polarizing, and more helpful to voters.
This panel will feature journalists who have transformed their newsroom's coverage, and tips for newsrooms who want to get away from the horse-race.
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Excel 1: Getting started with spreadsheets
Time: Thursday, June 20, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
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FYI Forum: Hispanic Media GOTV Coalition
Time: Thursday, June 20, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand A&B, lobby level
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Finding the story: Police stop data
Time: Thursday, June 20, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 2, lobby level (BYO)
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Investigating climate change
Time: Thursday, June 20, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
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While there is great reportage on climate change, there remains a dearth of investigative reporting on this issue. Like almost all issues investigative reporters are looking into, there are powerful individuals and organizations driving climate change. So, where do you start? How do you go about an investigation into climate-related issues? And what separates an investigation from reportage around climate change?
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Tools for FOIA and large project organization
Time: Thursday, June 20, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
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Broadcast Track: Meeting viewers where they are: Investigations in the age of TikTok
Time: Thursday, June 20, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
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Covering public stadium boondoggles
Time: Thursday, June 20, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
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Excel 2: Formulas & sorting
Time: Thursday, June 20, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
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K. Sophie Will is an investigative data reporter at Bloomberg Law, Government and Tax. Previously, she was a congressional action reporter at CQ Roll Call and Utah Investigative Journalism Project's Alicia Patterson fellow. The award-winning Utah native graduated from Boston University with bylines found in the Deseret News, USA Today, AP, Thomson Reuters, HuffPost, WGBH and more.
Extracting data from PDFs
Time: Thursday, June 20, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
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Finding the Story: Court records
Time: Thursday, June 20, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 2, lobby level (BYO)
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Gender & reproductive rights track: Covering the local beat
Time: Thursday, June 20, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
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How to build inclusive global collaborative investigations
Time: Thursday, June 20, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand A&B, lobby level
Investigative journalism is increasingly collaborative – across newsrooms and across borders. But are we developing models of collaboration that recreate -- rather than challenge – historic power imbalances between journalists in the Global South and Global North?
International journalism has a long history of extractive practices, from exploiting “fixers” to failing to credit local outlets. But even the most well-intentioned global collaborations can fall into some of the same patterns.
We will convene a frank, off-the-record discussion between editors and project managers about equity and inclusion in cross-border investigations. Facilitated by Lighthouse Reports editors working on collaborations in Mexico, Afghanistan and Syria, we will discuss practical steps the industry can take to create more inclusive cross-border collaborations.
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Fahim Abed is a investigations editor with Lighthouse Reports and 2023 Nieman fellow at Harvard. He was a reporter for The New York Times in Afghanistan until the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021.
Connect: X, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahim-abed-06824338?utm_source
Charlotte is senior editor at investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports, developing cross-border projects that combine OSINT, data journalism and money trails tools. She focuses on investigations in countries affected by conflict, in partnership with local and exiled journalists. Previously based in the Middle East, she has worked in news, features and documentary, reporting on migration, misinformation and conflict.
Connect: LinkedIn
How to get funding for investigative projects
Time: Thursday, June 20, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand G-K, lobby level
Description coming soon.
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Eric Ferrero is the Executive Director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism, which provides grants and other support directly to journalists for groundbreaking stories. He previously served in leadership roles in nonprofit and philanthropy, including at the Open Society Foundations, Innocence Project and Amnesty International.
How to report on what goes on in prisons and jails
Time: Thursday, June 20, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
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Prisons and jails are difficult institutions to crack. Guards maintain a blue wall of silence. Unlike police, citizen cell phones can't capture official misbehavior. And many people don't care about the incarcerated. Hear from panelists about how they get behind the walls to tell the stories of what goes on in prisons and jails.
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AI and automation for the local beat
Time: Thursday, June 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
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Best practices on navigating disinformation and online abuse in an election year
Time: Thursday, June 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
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Disinformation and online abuse are significant threats for investigative journalists, editors, and their work, and are expected to increase exponentially in the lead up to the elections. This session will explore how new technologies, including generative AI, can disrupt traditional reporting and fuel online abuse, and how these disruptions can, in turn, threaten progress on diversifying the journalism industry. Featuring an investigative journalist and producer, and digital safety and disinformation experts, this session will offer journalists and editors the opportunity to exchange best practices and practical tools on defending against online abuse and disinformation campaigns.
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Jeje Mohamed is the senior manager, digital safety and free expression at PEN America. She has over a decade of experience working on journalism, human rights issues, and safety and security in the Middle East and internationally. She develops identity-centric and trauma-informed physical, digital, and psychological safety and security training for journalists and media organizations. She is on the advisory board and newsroom lead for Coalition Against Online Violence.
Broadcast Track: Wrangling the big story
Time: Thursday, June 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
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Greg Fox has been a journalist since 1982, working at WESH-TV Orlando (Hearst) since May 1987. He is the Investigative & Political reporter. He also worked at WYOU-TV and WGHP-TV. He’s won two national Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in TV Political Journalism, seven regional Emmys, as well as Edward R. Murrow, SPJ, FABJ, AP, & Green Eyeshade awards. Greg was also an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida and Rollins College.
Digging into corporate behavior: Tracking and reporting on business influence
Time: Thursday, June 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
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Excel 3: Filtering & pivot tables
Time: Thursday, June 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
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How to make investigative reporting about non-English speaking communities more accessible to them
Time: Thursday, June 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
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Maryam Jameel is an engagement reporter at ProPublica based in Washington DC. She focuses on community-sourced investigations mainly tied to workers' rights issues.
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Should I learn to code?
Time: Thursday, June 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 2, lobby level (BYO)
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Cody is the director of technology and online resources at IRE, where he has also been a trainer. Before that, he was a journalist focused on data and investigations at various newspapers.
Connect: GitHub
Unlocking data.census.gov for your news stories
Time: Thursday, June 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
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Tyson Weister is a survey statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau, where he engages users in the new dissemination platform on data.census.gov. He also helps users navigate the Census data API and microdata access tool.
What to cover in education (K12 and higher ed)
Time: Thursday, June 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
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Bridging the newsroom and the classroom: Tackling big projects with student journalists
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
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Broadcast Track: Make me care! Writing scripts that hook viewers and keep them invested
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
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Excel: Importing and data prep
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
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Facts, fallacies and frames: getting trans issues right in the 2024 elections
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
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Google Sheets 1: Getting started with spreadsheets
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
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How to investigate charities 101
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
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Public charities, family foundations and other nonprofits – including those founded by professional athletes and celebrities – are required to submit financial filings to the IRS and state governments. An investigative sports journalist and charity watchdog expert team up to walk you through their in-depth, impactful and award-winning reporting on nonprofits. Learn where to obtain data and how much to trust it, how to navigate roadblocks, analyze charity financial reporting, identify red flags and follow leads.
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Introduction to teaching data journalism - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 6 p.m. (210 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 2, lobby level (BYO)
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Master Class: FOI frenzy: Psychological strategies for getting records out of their grubbies - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 6 p.m. (210 minutes)
Location: Grand C&D, lobby level
This master class provides a deep dive into research-based psychological strategies to help you get stubborn public officials to provide you the records you are legally entitled to. This hands-on workshop will include tactics for eliminating copy fees, effective wording for request letters, principled negotiation strategies, and how to craft a denial story that hits home with the public. Warning: When you leave the workshop, we urge you to apply these Jedi mind tricks for good, not evil.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited.
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David Cuillier is director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project at the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, which has provided research and education in access to government records since 1977. He was a data journalist before earning his doctorate in 2006. He is co-author of “The Art of Access: Strategies for Acquiring Public Records,” and has trained more than 11,000 journalists in FOI since 2004.
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Master class: The investigative interview - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 6 p.m. (210 minutes)
Location: Grand A&B, lobby level
You need one final confirmation to run your story. It's the key piece of a months-long project, only one person can provide it, and you've got one shot to get it.
The entire story comes down to The Interview. Will you be ready?
We can help. Sign up for this half-day Master Class in interviewing and get a playbook for getting the information you need.
Cheryl W. Thompson and Scott Zamost will cover all the crucial steps, from preparation to the conversation. We'll cover confrontational interviews, talking with survivors, getting the most from witnesses, convincing those who don't want to talk with you and much more.
So the next time you dial that number, knock on that door or corner an official who’s been avoiding you, you’ll be ready.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited.
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As the senior investigative producer for CNBC, Scott oversees investigative reports and documentaries. Scott joined CNBC in 2017 after nine years at CNN as a senior investigative producer. During his career, he has won more than 75 journalism awards, including two IRE awards, four national Emmy nominations, three National Headliner awards and 23 regional Emmys. A former newspaper reporter, he has spoken or moderated at IRE conferences every year since 2002.
Starting an investigative unit at smaller news organizations
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand G-K, lobby level
Newsrooms across America have been struggling for decades to navigate how to create enterprise and investigative work where dedicated funding does not exist. This is a particular pain point for smaller newsrooms, nonprofit and for profit. In this session, participants will learn from current and former investigative editors about how to create and support an investigative unit or team by accessing philanthropic and grant funding, including for specific stories, projects and even capacity building and identifying partnerships to support your work. This panel will be moderated by two journalists who have successfully fundraised to create investigative units as well as for individual reporting projects.
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Eric Ferrero is the Executive Director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism, which provides grants and other support directly to journalists for groundbreaking stories. He previously served in leadership roles in nonprofit and philanthropy, including at the Open Society Foundations, Innocence Project and Amnesty International.
Damaso Reyes is the executive and investigative editor at the Amsterdam News. He has been published by the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Der Spiegel, KSFR radio, the Miami Herald, Forbes.com and The Irish Times. Previous assignments and projects have taken him to countries including Rwanda, Iraq, Indonesia, Tanzania and throughout the United States and Europe.
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Diane is an award-winning journalist and news executive. Formerly working for Futuro Media, CNN & WSJ, she works with newsrooms as a senior editor and as a fundraising consultant. She currently writes for Editor & Publisher.
Noy Thrupkaew is Director of Partnerships and a reporting fellow at Type Investigations. She previously worked as an independent journalist reporting on human trafficking and labor exploitation and has written for outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, National Geographic, and Reveal Radio. A recipient of Open Society Foundation and Fulbright grants, she has also taught at Princeton University and the University of Southern California.
State government reporting that matters
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
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The federal government receives the greatest share of media attention, but state governments, often overlooked, wield incredible power over its citizenry, making profound decisions that intimately affect disadvantaged youth, people living in poverty, individuals with disabilities and women's health care, for instance. Want to know how to move beyond insider Capitol reporting and horse-race election coverage to stories that compel change and resonate with the people and communities affected by state policy makers? This session will focus on how to find meaningful, people-first investigations on the state government beat.
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Molly Parker is a Southern Illinois University assistant professor of journalism, a Capitol News Illinois reporter and ProPublica Local Reporting Network fellow. She has reported extensively on rural issues, affordable housing, child welfare and mental health. In 2022, Molly and CNI Reporter Beth Hundsdorfer won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights print award for exposing patient abuse inside a state-run developmental center.
Connect: X
Vetting investigations to reduce legal risk
Time: Thursday, June 20, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
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Pre-publication review can be a crucial step for editors and reporters to protect themselves and their news organizations from legal liability. This session will provide an overview of common vetting principles to assess and reduce legal risk throughout the reporting process. Participants will come away with practical tips they can apply to their work and a better understanding of the resources available to help with legal vetting.
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Behind the story: Misplaced Trust
Time: Thursday, June 20, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
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We’ll discuss the methodology behind Grist's project examining how land-grant universities got their land and money. Grist located and compiled data on more than 8 million acres of state trust lands associated with land-grant universities, established the parcels’ provenance, analyzed the revenue those lands produce for their associated institutions, and retrieved and categorized the income-generating activities in question, which include timber harvesting, oil and gas prospecting and leasing, mineral extraction, and agriculture. We’ll tell you about our research process, highlight the difficulties of tracing geospatial data and revenue streams across hundreds of years of history, and explain how to use our public dataset and get involved.
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Clayton Aldern is a senior data reporter at Grist. His writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Economist, Scientific American, Logic, The Guardian and elsewhere. He holds a master's in neuroscience and a master's in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. His book "The Weight of Nature," on the effects of climate change on neurobiology, brain health, and cognition, is out now from Dutton.
Rachel Glickhouse is the director of editorial partnerships at Grist and an advisor to the Democracy Day project. She has worked at the News Revenue Hub, the COVID Tracking Project, ProPublica and Univision, and she has taught at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and the New School.
Broadcast Track: The art of the interview
Time: Thursday, June 20, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
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Google Sheets 2: Formulas & sorting
Time: Thursday, June 20, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
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How to background people in an hour
Time: Thursday, June 20, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
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Whether covering a mass shooting or a breaking political scandal, reporters need to know how to thoroughly and quickly background people involved in breaking news events. In this panel, journalists will share concrete tips about mining social media accounts, maximizing Nexis searches, accessing public records online, finding friends and relatives and turning hunches into distinctive stories.
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Michael Biesecker is a global investigative reporter for The Associated Press. Biesecker’s work tracking potential war crimes in Ukraine was recognized with the 2022 IRE Gold Medal, as well as the top award for investigative reporting from the Overseas Press Club of America. He was a contributor to the AP team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Biesecker also teaches investigative and environmental reporting at Georgetown University.
Investigating campus sexual assault
Time: Thursday, June 20, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
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Asia Fields is an engagement reporter at ProPublica, where she focuses on crowdsourced and community-driven investigations. She has recently worked on projects related to school facilities and discipline. Previously, she was on The Seattle Times’ investigative team, where she reported on how Washington state colleges handled Title IX cases. Her reporting led to a state law requiring colleges to share information about employee misconduct as part of the hiring process.
Connect: Instagram, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asiafields/, Threads, X
Investigating local hospitals
Time: Thursday, June 20, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
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In many places hospitals are the largest employers, yet too often they don't receive much scrutiny for the decisions they make and the ways they spend their money — even though they can be life-and-death matters. Such work is increasingly urgent as we witness the rise of for-profit hospitals and the mergers of more and more hospitals into wealthy, mega-systems controlling the flow of billions of dollars, much of it government funding through Medicare and state Medicaid programs. While reporters can't easily go inside hospitals to see what's happening within their walls, there are many other sources of information at our disposal. This panel will teach local reporters how to find their regional hospitals' financial records and analyze them for potential stories, cultivate health care worker sources, navigate around HIPAA, and use other public records and shoe-leather reporting techniques to hold hospitals accountable.
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Maya Kaufman is a health care reporter with POLITICO's New York bureau. She previously covered the business of health care for Crain's New York Business. She graduated from Kenyon College and received a master's degree from Columbia Journalism School, where she was a fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting.
The year in international investigations
Time: Thursday, June 20, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
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Using data and docs to investigate the gun industry
Time: Thursday, June 20, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
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Using the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker to prepare for the 2024 election
Time: Thursday, June 20, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand G-K, lobby level
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36 chapters and no nut graph: A case study in merging investigative and narrative
Time: Thursday, June 20, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
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“The Landlord & the Tenant,” by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and ProPublica, took a bold approach to telling an investigative story: 14,000 words; no nut graph; 36 short chapters, all based on scenes. The braided narrative won the National Magazine Award for feature writing, the first time ever for a double-bylined story. Co-authors Raquel Rutledge and Ken Armstrong will talk inspiration and structure; what makes a successful partnership; and how to keep a narrative rolling without sacrificing your investigative findings.
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Ken Armstrong is a reporter at ProPublica. He’s won Pulitzer Prizes for investigative and explanatory reporting and shared in two staff Pulitzers for breaking news. Other awards include a Peabody for radio and the National Magazine Award for feature writing. He co-wrote the story that became the Netflix series, “Unbelievable.” He was the McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton and co-authored the book, “Scoreboard, Baby,” winner of the Edgar Award for nonfiction.
Broadcast Track: Investigating breaking news
Time: Thursday, June 20, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
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Daniela Ibarra is a reporter at KSAT in San Antonio. She returned home after two years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her reporting at KTUL led to a change in state law, exposed public safety issues and held leaders accountable. Daniela began her career at KTXS in Abilene, Texas. She serves as the Secretary-Treasurer for the Society of Professional Journalists. Daniela graduated from the University of North Texas and is the proud daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants.
FYI Forum: Uncovering secret Canada: How our FOI and transparency project has made public records more accessible
Time: Thursday, June 20, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand G-K, lobby level
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Tom Cardoso is a Toronto-based investigative journalist with The Globe and Mail, a national newspaper in Canada. His most recent project was “Secret Canada,” an 18-month examination of Canada’s broken freedom of information regime.
Robyn Doolittle is an award-winning journalist and author with the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Her “Unfounded” investigation, which explored the ways that police handle sexual assault cases, prompted a national overhaul of policy, training and practices around sexual violence. More recently, she has worked on “Secret Canada,” an examination of Canada’s broken freedom of information system.
Connect: X
Free, easy data viz
Time: Thursday, June 20, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
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Google Sheets 3: Filtering & pivot tables
Time: Thursday, June 20, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
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How to deal with AI audio deepfakes in election campaigns
Time: Thursday, June 20, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
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Reporting on teacher misconduct
Time: Thursday, June 20, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
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Spatial investigations and reporting at The New York Times
Time: Thursday, June 20, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
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Haeyoun Park is a deputy editor in the graphics department at The New York Times, where she has edited award-winning visual stories. She first joined the department as a graphics editor in 2006, and for a decade, she led the desk’s reporting on national issues. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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Anjali Singhvi is a reporter and senior staff editor for spatial investigations at The New York Times. She covers a range of topics and specializes in investigative visual journalism in which she combines traditional reporting techniques with advanced spatial analysis. She is an expert in forensic 3D reconstructions and digital investigations. Ms. Singhvi is a trained architect and holds a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University in New York.
Bill tracker: How to keep up on state legislation regarding any beat
Time: Friday, June 21, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
This session explains how reporters can search for pending legislation in any state – or across the country – through a new tool developed with journalists in mind. This bill tracker, provided through Big Local News in partnership with BillTrack50, allows journalists to search for bills by topic. The tool is beginning to integrate machine learning, which allows searches with greater precision, reducing false positives and misses resulting from simple keyword searches. Spot trends over the past decade, and be notified when bills on your topic of interest are proposed. Come to this session to learn how to use it, hands-on. Also, get a sneak peek at a “Secrecy Tracker” that will provide research and analysis of national trends in legislation that infringes on public record and open meeting laws, through the University of Florida Brechner Freedom of Information Project.
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David Cuillier is director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project at the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, which has provided research and education in access to government records since 1977. He was a data journalist before earning his doctorate in 2006. He is co-author of “The Art of Access: Strategies for Acquiring Public Records,” and has trained more than 11,000 journalists in FOI since 2004.
Connect: X
Broadcast Track: Sources - How to get em, how to keep em
Time: Friday, June 21, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
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Scottie Hunter is the co-anchor of 9News at Five and serves as the lead investigative reporter at WAFB in Baton Rouge, LA. Most recently, he exposed alleged police misconduct at the Brave Cave, a secretive facility where officers are accused of beating and strip-searching certain people in their custody in an off-the-books manner. He, his wife Jasmine, his son Jason and dog Bear enjoy calling Baton Rouge home.
Developing curriculum for the next generation of journalists
Time: Friday, June 21, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand G-K, lobby level
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Engagement experiments for investigations
Time: Friday, June 21, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
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Ethics of reporting in Indigenous communities
Time: Friday, June 21, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
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Learn how to build respectful, reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities when researching and sharing their stories, and avoiding extractive journalism.
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How to turn your investigation story into beautiful audio narrative
Time: Friday, June 21, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
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Interviewing your data with spreadsheets - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Friday, June 21, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (210 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 2, lobby level (BYO)
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Instructors
Laura Moscoso is a Puerto Rican journalist and educator. She currently works as training director for IRE & NICAR.
Master Class: Outlining and structure: The writer's missing manual - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Friday, June 21, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (210 minutes)
Location: Grand A&B, lobby level
Outlining might be the single best thing you can do to make you a better, faster writer. This isn't the roman numeral outlining your middle school teacher taught you. We'll take a story from the ground up, showing how early considerations about structure and framing develop into a draft.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited.
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Scraping license and violations data with browser automation tools
Time: Friday, June 21, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
License data, lists of violations, and other high-value information is often locked behind hard-to-scrape pages, especially for state and local governments. In this session we'll see how browser automation tools can interact with web pages in ways traditional scrapers can't! You'll learn to automate the process of:
- Filling out form fields
- Clicking next, search, or login buttons
- Making searches for every row in your spreadsheet
- Download lists, tables and documents
- Breaking CAPTCHAs
- Taking screenshots
While we'll specifically be looking at state-level license and violations data, this is a great skill for anyone performing web-based investigations.
This session is good for: Even if you don't have Python skills, scraping is an accessible entryway into learning to code!
Laptops will be provided.
Instructor
The stories you're missing in your higher education covereage
Time: Friday, June 21, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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A world of possibilities: Lassoing satellite data for global and local investigations
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Journalists have used satellite data to map flooding, illegal deforestation, methane emissions, high-risk zones for future epidemics and much more. We’ll cover accessing and analyzing satellite data with platforms like Google Earth Engine and Global Forest Watch to produce investigations that break new ground with help from the sky.
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Authenticity in investigations: Covering your own communities
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Josh Hinkle is KXAN’s director of investigations and innovation, leading the station’s duPont and IRE Award-winning investigative team on multiple platforms. He also leads KXAN’s political coverage as executive producer and host of “State of Texas,” a weekly statewide program focused on the Texas Legislature and elections. In 2021, he was elected to the IRE Board of Directors and currently serves as its vice president.
Broadcast Track: The 10 most important lessons I've learned
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Cindy Galli is Executive Producer of ABC News’ Investigative Unit, leading a team of award-winning reporters and producers who investigate government fraud, corporate corruption, racial injustice and consumer and environmental issues. She led the network’s Uvalde:365 commitment to remain in and cover the community after a mass shooting. Her team’s recent recognitions include a duPont-Columbia baton and three national Murrow awards. Cindy also oversees collaborative projects between ABC News and local stations and affiliates.
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Data analysis with Python
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
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Disrupting and complicating the narrative
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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John Diedrich is an investigative reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Through an O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University, Diedrich examined gun deaths in Wisconsin, reframing the issue in deep reporting with gun owners. Earlier work revealed electrical fire risk and dangers in factories, MMA and hospitals. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, he also received a George Polk and Gerald Loeb, among other awards.
Mollie Muchna is a project manager at Trusting News. Most of her journalism career has been spent working in audience and engagement journalism in legacy newsrooms across the Southwest. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she is also an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism.
Go dox yourself
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
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Holding your public officials accountable
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Marquis Northeast, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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How does your state stack up when it comes to protecting student athletes?
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Rob Byers has decades of experience in reporting, editing and project planning. The Amity, Pa., native rose from intern to executive editor while at the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia. He was an editor on the Gazette's first-ever Pulitzer Prize (investigative reporting) in 2017. After joining The Courier Journal in Louisville, Ky., in 2018, Byers was lead editor on a quick-turn investigation that won the Pulitzer for breaking news in 2020.
Legal resources for reporters covering campaigns and elections
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
For reporters preparing to cover elections at all levels in 2024, this session will provide a primer on journalists’ newsgathering rights, particularly at polling places and conventions; how public records laws govern access to election-related information; and the kinds of free legal support available for election coverage. Participants will come away with a better understanding of their rights, and practical tips and legal resources — from online guides to emergency hotlines — they can turn to if they have questions or encounter issues.
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Master class: Writing for broadcast TV - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (135 minutes)
Location: Grand C&D, lobby level
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Unsung documents
Time: Friday, June 21, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Veteran investigative reporters reprise a classic panel and list obscure but powerful documents that anyone can use to turbocharge a project or bulk-up daily beat coverage. They also provide practical guidelines for unearthing, scrutinizing, managing and cross-referencing routine documents to unleash their full investigative power.
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10 international financial crimes journalists should understand
Time: Friday, June 21, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
International illicit financial flows affect so many areas of life from crime to the democratic process. This session will lay out the top financial crimes that you should know about — and how to investigate them. Learn how bad actors hide these transactions in plain site.
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A two-time Pulitzer Prize and Emmy winner, Martha Mendoza’s reports have prompted Congressional hearings and new legislation, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She was part of a team whose investigations into slavery in the Thai seafood sector have led to the freedom of more than 2,000 men.
Broadcast Track: Anatomy of an investigation
Time: Friday, June 21, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
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Finding the right solutions angle for your investigation
Time: Friday, June 21, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Gender & reproductive rights track: The gender-targeted disinformation machine
Time: Friday, June 21, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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How to perfect your pitch
Time: Friday, June 21, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Marquis Northeast, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Investigating scams
Time: Friday, June 21, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Scammers' schemes evolve rapidly, and it can be hard to keep up with their tactics. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) can help.
In this demo, reporters will:
-Learn insider tips on how to use BBB's Scam Tracker tool
-Discover how to mine the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel data for information gems
-Explore case studies demonstrating the use of BBB's resources and tools
After this hourlong demo, any intrepid reporter interested in uncovering fraud will be equipped with the tools to tackle a variety of systemic scams.
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OSINT visual investigations
Time: Friday, June 21, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
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Instructor
Michael Biesecker is a global investigative reporter for The Associated Press. Biesecker’s work tracking potential war crimes in Ukraine was recognized with the 2022 IRE Gold Medal, as well as the top award for investigative reporting from the Overseas Press Club of America. He was a contributor to the AP team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Biesecker also teaches investigative and environmental reporting at Georgetown University.
Using OpenRefine, a power tool for cleaning data
Time: Friday, June 21, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
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What to do when you become the subject
Time: Friday, June 21, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Accessing courts in high-profile cases
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Whether covering a criminal trial or civil dispute, journalists reporting on high-profile cases have found themselves barred from accessing court records and proceedings that are essential to providing the public with in-depth information about how the judicial system is functioning. This session will discuss the types of information and proceedings that courts must make publicly available, and share lessons learned from recent instances where journalists and news organizations have successfully challenged undue efforts to limit access in important cases at both the state and federal level.
This session is sponsored by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. IRE retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions.
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Broadcast Track: Teamwork makes the dream work
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Google Sheets: Using string functions to manipulate data
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
Description coming soon.
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How do you cover crime? And why do we do it?
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand C&D, lobby level
As the U.S. confronts critical questions about policing and justice, join The Associated Press for an essential dialogue about the evolving journalism landscape and learn about brand new updates to AP’s criminal justice coverage guidance designed to enhance the fairness, accuracy, and sensitivity of crime and law enforcement coverage.
Join AP editors for a revealing conversation on the challenges and responsibilities of reporting on crime and how these changes could help redefine your newsroom’s approach to crime reporting. Learn how to effectively illuminate the lives impacted by violence, ensure accountability in law enforcement, and adopt best practices that emphasize ethical reporting. We'll delve into guidance from the 2024 AP Stylebook on critical aspects of reporting such as language choices, the implications of using mug shots, building reliable sources, and handling graphic content responsibly. We'll also spotlight the latest AP Stylebook guidance examining common law enforcement terminologies. Equip yourself with the tools to produce reporting that not only informs and holds the powerful to account but respects and uplifts, ensuring every story is told with accuracy and empathy.
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How to connect and earn trust with communities we've failed
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Gonzalo Magaña is an award-winning journalist and the Director of Special Projects and Audience Engagement at ABC10, TEGNA’s ABC affiliate in Sacramento, CA. In 2017, Gonzalo created the ABC10 Originals team, specializing in long-form and investigative reporting. In 2021, he launched and oversees the Race and Culture Content Team, dedicated to reporting with and about diverse communities. Prior to joining TEGNA, Gonzalo spent 12 years working in Spanish broadcast news.
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Mollie Muchna is a project manager at Trusting News. Most of her journalism career has been spent working in audience and engagement journalism in legacy newsrooms across the Southwest. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she is also an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism.
Investigating toxic chemicals
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Toxic chemicals are all around us. Journalists are routinely having to report on them. From water laced with forever chemicals to polluting industry contaminating the air with carcinogens, environmental and public health reporters are often encountering toxics stories. This session will be a primer on how to responsibly report on toxic chemicals. We’ll talk about the pitfalls of industry-reported data, how to navigate murky state and federal exposure standards, and ways to effectively communicate risk.
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Lightning talks: Trans stories edition
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Master Class: Reporting and writing for scene - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 6 p.m. (210 minutes)
Location: Grand A&B, lobby level
When it comes to crafting scenes, we can learn a lot from people who write fiction and screenplays. But our challenges begin long before the writing. Our scenes have to be true not just emotionally, but factually. This class will look at ways to gather dialogue, the telling detail and other threads that we can then weave into a scene people will remember (all, of course, without sacrificing the element of accountability — because, that’s what we do). We’ll chat about Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing and talk shop with Ava Kofman about two of her New Yorker stories.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited.
Speaker
Ken Armstrong is a reporter at ProPublica. He’s won Pulitzer Prizes for investigative and explanatory reporting and shared in two staff Pulitzers for breaking news. Other awards include a Peabody for radio and the National Magazine Award for feature writing. He co-wrote the story that became the Netflix series, “Unbelievable.” He was the McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton and co-authored the book, “Scoreboard, Baby,” winner of the Edgar Award for nonfiction.
R 1: Intro to R and RStudio
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
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Sleeping Well: How investigative journalists can make even the most sensitive and complicated stories ironclad
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
There was a time it was a matter of keeping your desk clean. But today’s investigative journalists have an overwhelming number of options about how to organize their work. We will present a few simple systems teams can use to make sure that every bit of content from pitch to publish is in a simple, well organized site. We’ll talk about annotating drafts (keep the lawyers happy), using video and audio transcriptions, and security challenges. Bring concerns you face and solutions you’ve developed to this session as we collaborate in true IRE style to share what we know.
This includes:
-Reporting Plans in 2024
-Two = Three: How teaming up can boost productivity, creativity and accuracy for investigative reporting.
-Managing Up: Making workplace decisions that benefit you and your editor
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A two-time Pulitzer Prize and Emmy winner, Martha Mendoza’s reports have prompted Congressional hearings and new legislation, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She was part of a team whose investigations into slavery in the Thai seafood sector have led to the freedom of more than 2,000 men.
Unionizing your newsroom
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Using public records to investigate political candidates for the 2024 election
Time: Friday, June 21, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 2, lobby level (BYO)
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Instructor information coming soon.
Broadcast Track: From boring to blockbuster: Tricks and tools to make your investigative stories sing
Time: Friday, June 21, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Don't get played: How to investigate gambling
Time: Friday, June 21, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Kathy Best is the inaugural director of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland. She previously was the executive editor of The Seattle Times, editor of the Missoulian in Missoula, MT, and a top editor at The Baltimore Sun, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Students in the Howard Center produce national investigations, often working with other universities or professional partners.
Paula Lavigne is an investigative reporter for ESPN.
Go FOIA yourself
Time: Friday, June 21, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
The tactic of submitting records requests about yourself. This can sometimes yield new information that a public relations person provided, or can cause a public relations person to provide information that they had been declining to provide. It also shows who they may be turning to for advice or outside help on your story. I have done this several times, with great results as well as little to no results.
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Google Sheets: Importing and data prep
Time: Friday, June 21, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
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Honing your investigative skills: From ideation to production
Time: Friday, June 21, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Join the team from the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication as they preview a new professional investigative editing certificate program they’re developing for working journalists who would like to move into investigative editing or those who just want to sharpen their investigative skills.
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Investigating hate crimes and bias incidents
Time: Friday, June 21, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Rachel Glickhouse is the director of editorial partnerships at Grist and an advisor to the Democracy Day project. She has worked at the News Revenue Hub, the COVID Tracking Project, ProPublica and Univision, and she has taught at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and the New School.
Jonah Kaplan is WCCO/CBS News Minnesota's award-winning Investigative Reporter, and over his 15-year career has been lauded for his ability to get the big story and big interview. His investigative and in-depth reporting often digs into high-impact issues in politics, public safety and foreign affairs. A graduate of Boston University, Jonah is a proud son of two rabbis and a #girldad to three daughters.
Investigating trash
Time: Friday, June 21, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
When you put plastic wrappers, old batteries or used clothes into a recycling bin, how do you know if it actually gets recycled or is dumped thousands of miles away? As global plastic consumption continues to soar and the shift to clean energy creates new waste streams, more garbage meant for recycling is being exported to countries that are ill-equipped to handle the rich world’s trash.
Investigative journalists are applying innovative reporting techniques to shed light on the opaque global market in waste. The panel will discuss how data analysis, remote sensing and ship, container and GPS tracking has been used in recent investigations into waste dumping, from US trash shipped to Mexico to Canadian packaging dumped in Myanmar.
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Charlotte is senior editor at investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports, developing cross-border projects that combine OSINT, data journalism and money trails tools. She focuses on investigations in countries affected by conflict, in partnership with local and exiled journalists. Previously based in the Middle East, she has worked in news, features and documentary, reporting on migration, misinformation and conflict.
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Networking: Journalists of color
Time: Friday, June 21, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Marquis Northeast, lobby level
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R 2: Data analysis and plotting
Time: Friday, June 21, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
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What the Real Housewives can teach you about investigative journalism
Time: Friday, June 21, 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Broadcast Track: Making the jump: How to get the investigative title (or do the job without one!)
Time: Friday, June 21, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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FYI Forum: Floodlight: Fiction in the public interest
Time: Friday, June 21, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand C&D, lobby level
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Google Sheets: Advanced pivot tables
Time: Friday, June 21, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
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How to look at the news through a military lens
Time: Friday, June 21, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Zachary Fryer-Biggs is the Managing Editor for news at Military.com. Zach has been a national security journalist for more than a decade, during that time working as Newsweek’s Pentagon reporter and an investigative reporter covering national security for the Center for Public Integrity, among other positions. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Reveal, The Daily Beast, and other outlets.
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How to report on AI copyright cases
Time: Friday, June 21, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Investigating the groups organizing anti-trans action and legislation
Time: Friday, June 21, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Investigating the public relations machine within policing
Time: Friday, June 21, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Maya Lau is a financial investigative researcher. She also hosts the personal finance podcast "Other People's Pockets." She's a former investigative journalist for the LATimes, where she covered the LA County Sheriff's Department. She also talks about career pivots from journalism.
Lessons learned from the best election investigations around the world
Time: Friday, June 21, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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R 3: Gathering and cleaning data
Time: Friday, June 21, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
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Why do U.S. newsrooms hire so few investigative reporters of color?
Time: Friday, June 21, 5 – 6 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Behind the story: Driving while Black
Time: Saturday, June 22, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Twenty years ago, Illinois began collecting some of the most robust data in the nation on traffic stops under legislation sponsored by then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama. By requiring police in every department across the state to record data about every traffic stop – including the race of the driver, the reason for the stop, the outcome and dozens of other data points – the hope was to better understand and address racial profiling.
On the 20th anniversary, WBEZ Chicago and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity obtained and analyzed 42.5 million records from more than 1,000 police jurisdictions across Illinois collected under the law. This first-of-its-kind analysis showed the problem has only gotten worse: the share of traffic stops involving Black drivers has risen over time, reaching all-time high levels in recent years.
Speakers
Jessica Alvarado Gamez is an investigative Roy W. Howard Fellow on WBEZ’s data team. Previously, she earned her master’s degree in investigative journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Her work has been featured by The Associated Press, Chicago Sun-Times, Univision Arizona and Arizona PBS.
Angela Caputo is an award-winning investigative reporter who specializes in using documents, databases, mapping and other analytical tools to expose abuses of power and lax government oversight. She's worked at The Chicago Reporter, American Public Media's APM Reports, the Chicago Tribune and Daily Southtown. She currently serves as the Project Director of the Investigative Project and teaches journalism at Loyola Marymount University.
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Matt Kiefer is a data journalist with WBEZ/Chicago Public Media.
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Alden Loury is the data projects editor at WBEZ, Chicago's NPR member station, and leads a five-person team of data journalists. Documenting segregation and racial inequality in housing, education, employment, the criminal justice system, economic development and politics have been a focus of his work for nearly 25 years in a variety of roles including reporter, editor, publisher, columnist, research director and policy analyst.
Broadcast Track: Working for you and on your side
Time: Saturday, June 22, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Jason Knowles is an Emmy award winning Consumer Investigative Reporter at WLS, ABC7 Chicago. He's been part of the ABC 7 I-Team for more than 10 years and has been at WLS for 20 years. Before joining WLS, Jason was an Investigative Reporter at WTVG 13 ABC in Toledo, Ohio.
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Local investigations with big impact
Time: Saturday, June 22, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
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Anne Ryman is an investigative reporter at ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix. Before that, she was an investigative reporter for more than 20 years at The Arizona Republic. She was part of the newspaper's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning team in explanatory reporting.
Master Class: Backstopping the data-driven investigation - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Saturday, June 22, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (210 minutes)
Location: Grand C&D, lobby level
Managing a data project presents challenges for any journalist. No matter your comfort level with data, this half-day workshop will give you the foundation you need to help make sure you or your reporters aren’t running with scissors or spinning wheels on data projects. Veteran editors Maud Beelman and Jennifer LaFleur will guide you through the ins and outs of data journalism from an editor’s point of view, including:
- How to help journalists find focus for their data stories
- How to structure and write data-driven investigations
- Verifying analyses and bulletproofing data stories and apps
- Using data to find human sources and characters for stories
- Planning the best data workflows for your newsroom
No data experience is necessary for this workshop. Everyone is welcome!
Preregistration is required and seating is limited.
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Master Class: Managing investigators: Leading those born to challenge authority - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Saturday, June 22, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (210 minutes)
Location: Grand A&B, lobby level
Being a news manager is already tough, but what if you supervise investigative journalists? They come with an extra layer of challenges because their very job (and likely their personality) makes them hyper-alert to authority figures.
This course is designed to give you some tools and tactics to lead individuals and entire teams of investigators more effectively. Learn from four investigative managers from different media at different stages of their leadership careers. How did they launch into their roles, and what experience have they gained along the way? This course is for current investigative managers and anyone aspiring to step into such a position in the future.
Topics will include: managing compassionately, hiring challenges, transitioning to management, forging partnerships, building relationships, handling resource cuts, organization/structure, tough decisions/conversations, in-house training/growth, delivering feedback, creating inclusive opportunities, and juggling responsibilities/projects/work.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited.
Speakers
Cindy Galli is Executive Producer of ABC News’ Investigative Unit, leading a team of award-winning reporters and producers who investigate government fraud, corporate corruption, racial injustice and consumer and environmental issues. She led the network’s Uvalde:365 commitment to remain in and cover the community after a mass shooting. Her team’s recent recognitions include a duPont-Columbia baton and three national Murrow awards. Cindy also oversees collaborative projects between ABC News and local stations and affiliates.
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Josh Hinkle is KXAN’s director of investigations and innovation, leading the station’s duPont and IRE Award-winning investigative team on multiple platforms. He also leads KXAN’s political coverage as executive producer and host of “State of Texas,” a weekly statewide program focused on the Texas Legislature and elections. In 2021, he was elected to the IRE Board of Directors and currently serves as its vice president.
Gonzalo Magaña is an award-winning journalist and the Director of Special Projects and Audience Engagement at ABC10, TEGNA’s ABC affiliate in Sacramento, CA. In 2017, Gonzalo created the ABC10 Originals team, specializing in long-form and investigative reporting. In 2021, he launched and oversees the Race and Culture Content Team, dedicated to reporting with and about diverse communities. Prior to joining TEGNA, Gonzalo spent 12 years working in Spanish broadcast news.
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Mc Nelly Torres is an award-winning investigative journalist and editor at the Center for Public Integrity, where she leads a team investigating inequality. Before, Torres worked as an investigative producer for NBC6 in Miami and co-founded FCIR.org. Torres is a product of newspapers including the Sun-Sentinel and the San Antonio Express-News. Torres was the first Latina to be elected to the IRE board of directors. She was a recipient of the Gwen Ifill Award in 2022.
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Media law for journalists: Newsgathering
Time: Saturday, June 22, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
In this session, you’ll learn from an experienced media attorney about the laws governing newsgathering activity, including going undercover, entering private property, using technology, gaining access to government proceedings and records, dealing with confidential sources, and more. Bring your questions and learn more about your rights to gather information.
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Jeff Hermes is a Deputy Director of the Media Law Resource Center, a membership organization for media lawyers. Jeff previously served as the Director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center; before that, he assisted a wide array of clients with media and intellectual property issues as a litigation attorney for fourteen years. Jeff went to Harvard Law School and received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton.
Connect: LinkedIn
Using OSINT tools to access data at scale
Time: Saturday, June 22, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
Learn how to leverage search engines, social media, and other public websites to collect the information you need to uncover the truth and gather facts. Together we’ll walk through how this data is leveraged in newsrooms so you can apply it to yours. By the end of this session, you'll now how to use public web data from elections to art.
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Using the Census to tell a story
Time: Saturday, June 22, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 2, lobby level (BYO)
Description coming soon.
Instructor
Sandhya Kambhampati is a data and graphics reporter on the Los Angeles Times Data Desk, where she covers the demographics and diversity of California and the nation. She previously worked at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Correctiv and ProPublica Illinois. Her co-reported work on the widespread inaccuracies in Cook County’s property tax assessment system was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for local reporting in 2018. Send her tips at sandhya@latimes.com.
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Web scraping with R
Time: Saturday, June 22, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
Description coming soon.
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Broadcast Track: Digging for data where none exists
Time: Saturday, June 22, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Cleaning and extracting data: 30 tips in 60 minutes
Time: Saturday, June 22, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
Let's put those documents to work for you! In this session we'll review need-to-know methods for getting the most out of your dirty datasets, regardless of whether you're working in Excel or knee-deep in Python.
Laptops will be provided.
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Diving into historical displacement and denial of housing rights within communities of color
Time: Saturday, June 22, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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FYI Forum: How to help your audience avoid news fatigue
Time: Saturday, June 22, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand G-K, lobby level
Description coming soon.
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Mollie Muchna is a project manager at Trusting News. Most of her journalism career has been spent working in audience and engagement journalism in legacy newsrooms across the Southwest. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she is also an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism.
Investigating unemployment
Time: Saturday, June 22, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Reporting on the judiciary
Time: Saturday, June 22, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Maya Dukmasova is a senior reporter at Injustice Watch. She reports on judges, prisons, housing and the courts. Before joining Injustice Watch in 2021, Maya was a senior writer at the Chicago Reader, where she produced award-winning long-form features and investigative stories, as well as profiles, film reviews and essays on a wide range of topics.
The art of business investigations
Time: Saturday, June 22, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
From getting CEOs to talk to deep diving into a company, a business investigation has its own sets of challenges. You'll hear from veteran print and broadcast journalists on navigating these challenges and how to turn a tip into a compelling corporate investigation. We will cover how to source up at companies you cover, especially those with NDAs, the aggressive nature of PR in business investigations and how to keep your cool when they are yelling at you and calling your editor as well as front running stories with press releases.
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Olivia Carville is an investigative reporter for Bloomberg News. She is an award-winning journalist who has written multiple cover stories for Businessweek magazine. A native of New Zealand, Olivia moved to New York City in 2017. She teaches investigative reporting techniques at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and serves as president of the New York Financial Writers' Association.
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As the senior investigative producer for CNBC, Scott oversees investigative reports and documentaries. Scott joined CNBC in 2017 after nine years at CNN as a senior investigative producer. During his career, he has won more than 75 journalism awards, including two IRE awards, four national Emmy nominations, three National Headliner awards and 23 regional Emmys. A former newspaper reporter, he has spoken or moderated at IRE conferences every year since 2002.
The art of interviewing
Time: Saturday, June 22, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Top 10 stories in religion you should be following
Time: Saturday, June 22, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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50 FOIAs in 50 minutes
Time: Saturday, June 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Broadcast Track: Juggling investigations and GA
Time: Saturday, June 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Lolita Lopez is an investigative reporter and anchor at NBC4 and has been part of the team since 2011. Lopez is part of the award-winning I-Team, digging deep into stories and cases that impact viewers throughout the Southland.
FYI Forum: Agenda Watch
Time: Saturday, June 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand G-K, lobby level
Description coming soon.
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Gender & reproductive rights track: Race and reproductive justice reporting
Time: Saturday, June 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Investigating scientific issues
Time: Saturday, June 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Leadership: Trauma and toxicity in the newsrooms
Time: Saturday, June 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
The panel will discuss entering a new environment as a manager, managing staff with strong opinions, helping staff avoid residual trauma from the stories they cover, and what to do if you inherit a team that has been under poor leadership in the past.
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Media lawyer Q&A
Time: Saturday, June 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Does your investigation involve complex legal questions and you're unsure how to proceed? Bring your lunch and your questions for a personal discussion with some prominent media law experts that will be presenting throughout the conference. We'll provide drinks and dessert.
This session is sponsored by the TEGNA Foundation. IRE retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions.
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SQL 1: Exploring data
Time: Saturday, June 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
Description coming soon.
Instructor information coming soon.
Broadcast Track: Making data and documents come alive on screen
Time: Saturday, June 22, 3 – 4 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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How to develop, pitch, and write books based on your investigative reporting.
Time: Saturday, June 22, 3 – 4 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
Speakers
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 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress and Writer's League of Texas book awards. He was on a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and his first podcast, "Just Say You're Sorry," was a 2024 Ambies nominee for Best True Crime Podcast. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Tracie McMillan is an award-winning investigative journalist and an editor for worker organizing at Capital & Main. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The American Way of Eating, and the 2024 title, The White Bonus: Five Famiies and the Cash Value of Racism in America (Henry Holt & Co.).
Investigating research fraud and errors: Tips and tools to help you get started
Time: Saturday, June 22, 3 – 4 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
Speaker information coming soon.
Investigative project collaborations with early-career reporters
Time: Saturday, June 22, 3 – 4 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand F, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
An investigative project must be ironclad: legally sound and the findings supported with data, voluminous pages of public records, and dozens or hundreds of interviews corroborating information. Many of the key skills -- such as effective strategies for interviewing whistleblowers, what story tips and leads to follow or avoid, and overcoming hurdles with data or public records -- are learned over time by doing investigative reporting. One way early-career reporters can effectively pursue investigative projects while receiving mentorship and assistance is by working with reporters and editors who have done major projects. Panelists will describe how they did just that and what roles various collaborators can play in launching their own team investigations.
This session was planned in collaboration with AAJA-LA. IRE retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions.
Speaker information coming soon.
Learn from the (other) investigators
Time: Saturday, June 22, 3 – 4 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
Speaker
Anna Werner is CBS News Senior Consumer Investigative Correspondent. In 2024, Werner won her second Polk Award and the Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism. She’s won three IRE awards, two duPont-Columbia awards, two Peabody awards, four SPJ awards, three Scripps-Howard awards, six Murrow awards, 35 Emmy awards, and been named ‘journalist of the year’ seven times. Previously, she was an investigative reporter at WISH, KHOU, KPIX, and CIR.
Lifting the curtain on the child welfare system
Time: Saturday, June 22, 3 – 4 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Master class: Under pressure: Real life in real time with breaking news - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Saturday, June 22, 3 – 5:15 p.m. (135 minutes)
Location: Grand G-K, lobby level
One of the hottest sessions at every IRE Conference! How would you and your newsroom fare in digging out little-known facts and information under the pressure of a breaking news deadline? One of the best ways to get better is to practice.
This is a real-life scenario where you can learn to break news without leaving your computer. The skills learned in this session can also be used for turning daily general assignment stories when there’s not breaking news. This session regularly fills up and the tipsheet that comes with it is in high demand. If you're interested, get there early to get a seat.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited.
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Reporting on coordinated rightwing extremism
Time: Saturday, June 22, 3 – 4 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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SQL 2: Grouping and summing data
Time: Saturday, June 22, 3 – 4 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
Description coming soon.
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Broadcast Track: Lightning Talks
Time: Saturday, June 22, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 7&8, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Building better sourcing
Time: Saturday, June 22, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 5, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Investigating health insurance
Time: Saturday, June 22, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 6, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Investigating sheriffs
Time: Saturday, June 22, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Grand E, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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SQL 3: Joining tables
Time: Saturday, June 22, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
Description coming soon.
Instructor information coming soon.
Wayback Machine and other archives in support of investigations
Time: Saturday, June 22, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
An introduction to the resources, capabilities, and tools available from the Internet Archive, their Wayback Machine, TV News Archive and other of their services
Speaker
Mark Graham is director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, where he works to help make the Web more useful and reliable by archiving and making available hundreds of millions of Web pages every day. Mark was SVP with NBC News Digital where he managed several business units including Stringwire, a live mobile video platform for collaborative citizen reporting. Mark also served as SVP of technology at iVillage, The Women’s Network.
Data visualization and storytelling with Datawrapper
Time: Sunday, June 23, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 1, lobby level (BYO)
Description coming soon.
Instructor
Aaron Mendelson is an IRE Award-winning data and investigative journalist based in Los Angeles, CA. Most recently, he worked at the Center for Public Integrity covering voting. Before that, he was a member of the investigative team at KPCC/LAist for eight years. He holds a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and got his start in news at KFAI in Minneapolis.
Digging into private companies
Time: Sunday, June 23, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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How to project manage like a duck: A guide for reporters and editors
Time: Sunday, June 23, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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Records requests to make on the education beat
Time: Sunday, June 23, 9 – 10 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Gold Key 1&2, lobby level
Description coming soon.
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Web scraping with Python - pre-registered attendees only
Time: Sunday, June 23, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (210 minutes)
Location: Orange County Ballroom 3, lobby level (PC)
If you need data that's trapped on a website, writing some code to scrape the page could be your solution. This entry-level class will show you how to use the Python programming language to harvest data from a website into a data file. We'll introduce you to the command line and show you how to write enough code to fetch and parse content on the web.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided.
Workshop prerequisites: This class is programming for beginners. Some basic familiarity with Python and HTML is helpful but not required.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited.
Instructor
Cody is the director of technology and online resources at IRE, where he has also been a trainer. Before that, he was a journalist focused on data and investigations at various newspapers.
Connect: GitHub
Beginning your investigative career
Time: Sunday, June 23, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 3&4, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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How journalists are using investigative tools in perilous press environments
Time: Sunday, June 23, 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. (60 minutes)
Location: Platinum 1&2, lobby level
Session audio will be recorded.
Description coming soon.
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