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IRE 2025 schedule

4 sessions confirmed • Updated April 2 • All times are CT

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IRE 2025 will run from Thursday, June 19, to Sunday, June 22 in New Orleans, at the New Orleans Marriott (555 Canal Street New Orleans, LA 70130).

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Thursday

Sessions starting at 9 a.m. CT

Pre-registration - Master Class

Master Class: Writing the investigative narrative (pre-registered attendees only)

Time: Thursday, June 19, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (3h 30m)
Location: Salon A-C (3rd floor)

Session audio will be recorded.

Learn how to make your investigative writing compelling and powerful. We cover everything from defining an investigative narrative to how to report, organize, write and self-edit your own! Topics include:

  • Understanding the investigative narrative
  • How to pitch
  • Turning sources into characters
  • Writing a scene
  • Self-editing tips and techniques
  • Organizing and writing a deeply reported investigative narrative

Preregistration is required and seating is limited.

Speakers

Bethany Barnes, Tampa Bay Times

Rebecca Woolington, Tampa Bay Times

Sessions starting at 2:30 p.m. CT

Pre-registration - Master Class

Master Class: Outlining and structure: The writer's missing manual (pre-registered attendees only)

Time: Thursday, June 19, 2:30 – 6 p.m. (3h 30m)
Location: Salon F,G,H (3rd floor)

Session audio will be recorded.

Description coming soon.

Speaker information coming soon.

Friday

Sessions starting at 9 a.m. CT

Pre-registration - Master Class

Master Class: Reporting and writing for scene (pre-registered attendees only)

Time: Friday, June 20, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (3h 30m)
Location: Salon A-C (3rd floor)

Session audio will be recorded.

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 dissect song lyrics; chat about creating dread; read a scene on the page, then watch it dramatized on screen. Plus, the fabulous Pam Colloff will drop in and talk shop.

Preregistration is required and seating is limited.

Speakers

Ken Armstrong, Bloomberg News

Pamela Colloff, ProPublica

Saturday

Sessions starting at 9 a.m. CT

Pre-registration - Master Class

Master Class: Managing investigators… or how to lead journalists born to challenge authority (50th Anniversary Edition)

Time: Saturday, June 21, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (3h 30m)
Location: Salon A-C (3rd floor)

Session audio will be recorded.

Description coming soon.

Speaker information coming soon.