We’re in Seattle this week at the University of Washington with Jaimi Dowdell, training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors for Be a Better Business Watchdog: CAR for Business Journalists. We will be doing the same free workshop with Jaimi in Cleveland on Nov. 8.
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) is offering the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s injury and death database.
The 2006-2009 data includes records on more than 13,500 deaths, 100,000 injuries or potential injuries, and more than 17,000 in-depth investigations relating to consumer products.
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) has created a scholarship fund in memory of David Dietz, a Bloomberg Markets reporter and former president of the organization.
Dietz, 70, died of cancer in early June. The David Dietz Fund will provide up to $1,000 each year to a promising business journalist or student to attend the national IRE Conference. IRE announced in an email that Bloomberg has donated $10,000 to the fund. That and other donations mean the fund is more than half way to a permanently endowed program.
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) is offering a database of disaster loans made by the Small Business Administration (SBA) from fiscal 1980 to 2010. Journalists can use this database of 1.1 million records to find where SBA disaster loans went in their market or determine who is not paying back SBA disaster loans, according to IRE Training Director Jaimi Dowdell.
ORLANDO — From college athletics to art museums to foreclosure and economic incentives, the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Conference provides a story-idea palooza. Here are some that you can try at home:
ORLANDO — The word given to Dustin Hoffman’s character in “The Graduate” may have been “plastics,” but two Pulitzer Prize winners say “insurance.”
In separate sessions at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference, both Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times indicated that insurance is a good area of coverage in which to make a name for yourself as a journalist.
ORLANDO — When Walt Bogdanich first applied for a job as a reporter at The New York Times, he was told: “We don’t see a place for you” at the paper.
But he refused to take no for an answer and continued to send clips to the Times until he was finally let into the fold — not as a reporter — but as an editor.
Don’t tell us you’ve run out of story ideas or have no idea what you’d like to do when your editor pushes for investigations or enterprise stories. These are just three of the more than 30 stories that IRE presents as the best in investigative journalism for 2011 - IRE’s Year in Investigations 2011 (PDF) The [...]
ORLANDO — Hospitals are among the largest businesses in some communities, but they often get a pass when it comes to how well they are serving their customers — the patients in your area who use them.
