Enter the 2016 IRE Awards
The IRE Awards is our annual contest recognizing the best in investigative reporting by print, broadcast and online media. Learn more and submit your best work by Jan. 13.
Data Journalist (Searchlight NM)
Searchlight New Mexico, a new non-profit, non-partisan investigative reporting organization, is seeking a senior data journalist to help us launch and maintain a website with a wide variety of local and state data, including payroll, pensions and contracts. The ideal candidate will know how to extract unwieldy data sets from obstinate bureaucracies and will be skilled enough with data visualizations to help voters, academics and anyone interested in good government understand how their tax dollars are being spent. Applicants should have strong experience with Excel, Access, Sequel, as well as various data mapping and visualization tools. The right person will ...
Staff Writer (The Trace)
The Trace is seeking an experienced reporter to join our growing team as a full-time staff correspondent. The ideal candidate has direct experience covering gun crime, gun policy, or the gun industry for a major local newsroom and a track record of producing gripping, agenda-changing stories that hold institutions and powerful individuals to account. The Trace is headquartered in New York but we are very open to candidates wishing to remain in their current locations (and in proximity to their extensive source networks).
Learn more and apply: https://www.thetrace.org/2017/01/the-trace-hiring-staff-writer/
Get ready for the 2017 CAR Conference T-shirt contest
It’s almost time for the annual CAR Conference T-shirt contest!
If you don’t have a design ready, don’t worry. You still have time to come up with your best data journalism one-liners, SQL puns and NICAR logo designs.
The winner gets bragging rights, a free shirt and $50 in the online IRE Store. Runners-up will be sold as laptop stickers.
Here’s how it works:
Jan 20-29: Submit you designs by emailing them to shirts@ire.org. We’ll take just about any high-resolution format.
Jan. 30 – Feb. 5: Vote for your favorite designs. We’ll have ...
Read more ...After Pushback, Oregon Scraps Report Linking Private Forests To Water Quality Risks
Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality drafted a report that identified logging as a contributor to known risks for drinking water quality in communities up and down the Oregon coast. But the report has never been published. It was scrapped by the agency after intense pushback and charges of anti-logging bias from the timber industry and the state’s Department of Forestry, according to interviews and public records obtained by Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Computer Assisted Reporting Producer (E.W. Scripps Washington Bureau)
Investigative journalism and innovative storytelling are at the core of the Scripps Washington Bureau, based in Washington DC. We have an opening for a Computer Assisted Reporting (C.A.R.) producer to join our national team.
The Washington bureau's team investigates stories that are featured on the Scripps local news networks that include 34 TV stations, 35 radio stations and their digital assets across 27 markets nationwide. Our team also works with numerous national and international media partners.
We are looking for a C.A.R. producer who is passionate for investigations and has strong data analysis skills. The ...
Charles Minshew joins IRE as data services director
Charles Minshew of the Orlando Sentinel will join IRE as director of data services on Jan. 23.
During the past three years, Charles has done impressive data and visual storytelling work at the Sentinel. He created and maintained data sets for daily and investigative stories; built interactive graphics, maps and charts; and trained reporters on using data. He secured a $35,000 grant from the Knight Foundation for the newspaper to build a legislative data tool, Tabs on Tallahassee.
As an interactive producer intern at the Denver Post in 2012, Charles shared in the staff Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News ...
Read more ...Investigative Reporter (WTMJ-TV)
TODAY'S TMJ4 needs an experienced Investigative Reporter that knows how to make a difference in their community.
The investigative reporter is responsible for developing, researching, reporting and producing high-impact investigative stories for digital and broadcast. He or she is driven by a desire to spur change through great reporting and storytelling. The investigative reporter is a team player who works closely with others to ensure that the mission and values of the company are integrated into editorial content.
Key activities
- Generate, research and report short, mid and long form stories through investigation and research
- Use sources, documents, computer-assisted reporting ...
CDC keeps details secret of lab mishaps with deadly viruses, bacteria
After taking nearly two years to release copies of its lab accident reports under the Freedom of Information Act, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is keeping secret large swaths of information when accidents occur with potential bioterror pathogens like those that cause anthrax, Ebola, and plague. The latest installment of USA TODAY’s ongoing Biolabs in Your Backyard investigation is an example of holding government agencies accountable by publicizing their FOIA delays and redactions.