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Editor's note

Welcome to The IRE Journal Online! Here you'll find all the in-depth stories and regular departments you've enjoyed in the print version, plus new audio and interactive features, including the latest IRE Radio Podcast episodes. Let us know what you think at editorial@ire.org.

Editor's note

Welcome to The IRE Journal Online! Here you'll find all the in-depth stories and regular departments you've enjoyed in the print version, plus new audio and interactive features, including the latest IRE Radio Podcast episodes. Let us know what you think at editorial@ire.org.


Departments

FOI Files: Trump 2.0
David Cuillier, Brechner Freedom of Information Project

Collected Wisdom: The quest for diversity evolves
Francisco Vara-Orta, IRE & NICAR

Opening Letter: Disability news and community
Francisco Vara-Orta, IRE & NICAR

Investigator's Toolbox: Four starters
Nakylah Carter, IRE & NICAR

Data Dive: Vulnerable in Texas
Neelam Bohra, The Texas Tribune; Caroline Ghisolfi, Austin American-Statesman

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Newsletters

Local Matters •
A mysterious political bribe, a pension loophole and inmates forced to work for a sheriff

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I-Team Toolkit •
I-Team Toolkit: Broadcast highlights from NICAR25

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Quick Hits •
🏆 Nominate a journalist for the Don Bolles Medal

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Hydrogen sulfide hotspots, regulatory failure

Sam Birdwell said there was something that still kept him up at night: the elderly residents and young children who were exposed to the gas — not enough to kill, but enough to make them sick. He’d seen too many oil facilities leaking H2S in residential neighborhoods, near schools and families. And he didn’t have the tools to make it stop.

Reverse engineering Medicare, Inc.

One doesn’t just wake up one morning and decide to reverse engineer the federal government’s convoluted Medicare Advantage payment system. Taxpayers spend billions of dollars each year on excessive payments to private insurers in Medicare Advantage, but it is shrouded in secrecy and fueled by vast reams of patient data.

Mapping preventable death in “Bleeding Out”

In the back of an ambulance in San Antonio, I watched as paramedics worked on a man they had pulled from a house with bullet-riddled windows and blood-smeared tiles. He had been shot twice, in the arm and chest. When I looked down at my shoes, I saw the man’s blood spattered across my sneaker. 

Unearthing a broken promise

Using AI and historical records, investigative journalists at partnering newsrooms uncovered names of formerly enslaved people who received – and then lost – land promised under Reconstruction.

Investigating how loopholes and middlemen are breaking America’s H-1B visa system

In December 2023, with the migrant surge at the US-Mexico border dominating the national conversation, Bloomberg data investigations reporter Eric Fan was crafting a series of Freedom of Information Act requests that would crack open another problematic part of America’s immigration system — the skilled-worker visa program known as H-1B.

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