Expected speakers

Additional speakers will be added in the coming weeks.
Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry will be the keynote speaker.

Chris Adams, McClatchy
David Adams, St. Petersburg Times
Joe Adams, The Florida Times-Union
Margarita Akhvlediani, Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Ames Alexander, The Charlotte Observer
Bill Allison, The Sunlight Foundation
Rosental Alves, Knight Chair for International
Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
Nancy Amons, WSMV-Nashville
Jeffrey Anderson, (Baltimore) City Paper
John Anglim, WMAR-Baltimore
Binyamin Appelbaum, The Boston Globe
Ken Armstrong, The Seattle Times
Dave Barry, The Miami Herald
Rob Barry, The Miami Herald
Marsha Bartel, WFLD-Chicago
Roberta Baskin, WJLA-Washington, D.C.
Michelle Bearden, The Tampa Tribune
Jo Becker, The New York Times
Maud Beelman, The Dallas Morning News
Laurie Bennett, muckety.com
Jenni Bergal, NPR
Brett Blackledge, The Birmingham News
David Boardman, The Seattle Times
Sandy Bohrer, Holland & Knight LLP
Walt Bogdanich, The New York Times
James Brodell, A.M. Costa Rica
Neil Budde, DailyMe, Inc.
Gail Bulfin, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Ed Burns, screenwriter and executive producer of
"Generation Kill"
Jeff Burnside, WTVJ-South Florida
Jon Burstein, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Shannon Cake, WPTV-West Palm Beach
Patricia Callahan, Chicago Tribune
Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News
Lourdes Cardenas, Al Dia
Lynn Carrillo, Telemundo
Debbie Cenziper,The Washington Post
Jackie Charles, The Miami Herald
Kellie Cheadle, KING-Seattle
Dan Christensen, The Miami Herald
Rose Ciotta, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Michael Clemente, ABC
Wendell Cochran, American University
Sarah Cohen, The Washington Post
Alan Cohn, WTNH-New Haven
Sheila Coronel, Columbia University
Rob Cribb, The Toronoto Star
Sandra Crucianelli, Knight Center Instructor
Steve Daniels, WTVD-Raleigh
Timothy Darragh, The Morning Call
Chase Davis, Houston Chronicle
Jim Defede, WFOR-South Florida
Joe Demma, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Mario Diament, Florida International University
Ken Dilanian, USA Today
Matt Doig, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Steve Doig, Arizona State University
Wayne Dolcefino, KTRK-Houston
David Donald, IRE and NICAR
Jeff Donn, Associated Press
Jaimi Dowdell, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times
Tom Dubocq, The Palm Beach Post
Brian Duffy, NPR
Tracey Eaton, Flagler College (moderator)
Carolyn Edds, St. Petersburg Times
Mike Edgerly, Minnesota Public Radio
Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica
David Epstein, Sports Illustrated
David Evans, Bloomberg
Eric Eyre, The Charleston Gazette
Tony Fabelo, Council of State Governments
Mike Fabey, Aviation Week & Aerospace Daily
Chuck Fadely, The Miami Herald
Tom Farrey, ESPN
Barbara Fedida, CBS
Renee Ferguson, WMAQ-Chicago
Enrique Flor, La Ventana Indiscreta (Peru)
Peter Franceschina, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Jan Gunnar Furuly, Norweigan Foundation
for Investigative Journalism
Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Manny Garcia, The Miami Herald
Adam Gelb, Pew Charitable Trusts
Ted Gest, Criminal Justice Journalists
Jack Gillum, Arizona Daily Star
Matt Goldberg, KNBC-Los Angeles
Eric Gorski, Associated Press
Chuck Goudie, WLS-Chicago
Mark Greenblatt, KHOU-Houston
James Grimalidi, The Washington Post
Jason Grotto, Chicago Tribune
Joel Grover, KNBC-Los Angeles
Anders Gyllenhaal, The Miami Herald
Andy Hall, Wisconsin State Journal
Doug Haddix, The Columbus Dispatch
Lorie Hearn, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Sara Hebel, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Doreen Hemlock, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Steve Henn, Marketplace
Scott Hiaasen, The Miami Herald
Sandy Hodson, Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
Mark Horvit, IRE and NICAR
Brant Houston, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Mike Huckman, CNBC
Dianna Hunt, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Charles Intriago, WatchDog Media
Chris Isham, CBS
David Cay Johnston, The New York Times
Valerie Kalfrin, The Tampa Tribune
Demetria Kalodimos, WSMV-Nashville
David Kaplan, freelancer
Mark Katches, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Kelly Kennedy, Army Times
Aaron Kessler, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sally Kestin, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Armen Keteyian, CBS News
Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker.com
Louise Kiernan, Chicago Tribune
Kimberly Kindy, The Washington Post
Joshua Kors, The Nation
Serge Kovaleski, The New York Times
Jennifer LaFleur, The Dallas Morning News
Tiffany Lankes, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Andrew Leckey, Donald W. Reynolds National Center
for Business Journalism
Michelle Leder, Footnoted.org
Min-Kyu Lee, Chung-Ang University
Andy Lehren, The New York Times
Chuck Lewis, Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University
R. Fred Lewis, Florida Chief Justice
Hagit Limor, WCPO-Cincinnati
Penny Loeb, freelance
Laura Lorek, San Antonion Express-News
John Maines, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Pam Maples, St. Louis Post Dispatch
Pedro Martinez-Fraga, attorney
Kate Marymont, Gannett Co.
Myriam Masihy, Univision
Scott Matthews, CNN
Earl Maucker, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Suzanne McBride, Columbia College
Erin McCormick, San Francisco Chronicle
Mike McGraw, The Kansas City Star
David McKie, CBC
Matt Meagher, Inside Edition
Tom Merriman, WJW-Cleveland
Philip Meyer, University of North Carolina
Jeremy Milarsky, IRE and NICAR
Yvette Miley, WTVJ-South Florida
Kimberly Miller, The Palm Beach Post
Stephen Miller, The New York Times
T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times
Miles Moffeit, The Denver Post
Darryn Moore, WSB-Atlanta
Paul Myers, BBC
Jim Neff, The Seattle Times
Deborah Nelson, University of Maryland
Asra Nomani, Georgetown University
Lois Norder, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Sarah Okeson, Florida Today
Lise Olsen, Houston Chronicle
Megan O'Matz, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Eamonn O'Neill, freelance
Bob Ottenhoff, Guidestar
Peter Overby, NPR
George Papajohn, Chicago Tribune
Doug Pardue, The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier
Jim Parsons, WTAE-Pittsburgh
Avni Patel, ABC
John Perry, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cheryl Phillips, The Seattle Times
Aron Pilhofer, NewYorkTimes.com
Tony Pipitone, WKMG-Orlando
Duane Pohlman, WEWS-Cleveland
Jim Polk, CNN
Ben Poston, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
John Quinones, ABC
Matt Reed, Florida Today
Scott Reeder, Small Newspaper Group
Neil Reisner, Florida International University
Gerardo Reyes, El Nuevo Herald
Joe Rhee, ABC
David Ridgen, CBC
Jill Riepenhoff, The Columbus Dispatch
Allison Riggio, Columbia College
Massie Ritsch, Center for Responsive Politics
Adrienne Roark, WFOR-Miami
Danny Robbins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Frances Robles, The Miami Herald
Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune
Fernando Rodrigues, Brazilian Association for
Investigative Journalism (ABRAJI)
Ira Rosen, CBS-60 Minutes
Lee Rood, The Des Moines Register
Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Sharon Rosenhause, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Robert Rosenthal, Executive Director of the Center for Investigative Reporting
Susanne Rust, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mike Sallah, The Miami Herald
Norberto Santana, The Orange County Register
Maddy Sauer, ABC News-The Blotter
Dave Savini, WBBM-Chicago
Jim Schaefer, Detroit Free Press
Chris Scholl, CBS
Fred Schulte, The (Baltimore) Sun
Karla Schuster, Newsday
Rhonda Schwartz, ABC
Lana Durban Scott, Scripps Howard
Lindsey Seavert, WBNS-Columbus, Ohio
Mary Shanklin, Orlando Sentinel
Deb Sherman, KUSA-Denver
John Sherman, WBAL-Baltimore
Amy Shipley, The Washington Post
Brett Shipp, WFAA-Dallas-Fort Worth
Andy Siegel, CBS
David Simon, a writer and executive producer of
"Generation Kill"
Brian Skoloff, Associated Press
David Smallman, Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP
Doug Smith, WTVT-Tampa
Jennifer Smith Richards, The Columbus Dispatch
Joe Stephens, The Washington Post
Stephen Stock, WFOR-South Florida
Jim Strickland, WSB-Atlanta
Keith Summa, CBS
Simon Surowicz, ABC News
Doug Swanson, The Dallas Morning News
Juan Tamayo, The Miami Herald
Joe Tanfani, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Andrea Parquet Taylor, WXYZ-Detriot
Sam Terilli, University of Miami
Enrique Teutelo, Univision
Lea Thompson, Thom Thom Media LLC.
Marilyn Thompson, The Washington Post
Tisha Thompson, WTTG-Washington, D.C.
Barbara Feinman-Todd, Georgetown University
Loretta Tofani, freelance
Mc Nelly Torres, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Joseph Treaster, Knight Center for International Media
Jacqueline Trescott, The Washington Post
Ricardo Trotti, InterAmerican Press Association
Dave Umhoefer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Matt Waite, St. Petersburg Times
Todd Wallack, The Boston Globe
Mike Ward, Austin American-Statesman
Amy Webb, Webbmedia Group
Steve Weinberg, University of Missouri
Tim Weiner, The New York Times
Anna Werner, KPIX-San Francisco
Lawan Williams, KSHB-Kansas City
Phil Williams, WTVF-Nashville
Duff Wilson, The New York Times
Trish Wilson, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Aaron Wische, KTVT-Fort Worth
Paul Wormeli, National Information Exchange Model
Evan Wright, author of "Generation Kill"
Rick Yarborough, WTTG-Washington, D.C.
Larry Yellen, WFLD-Chicago
Alison Young, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Christine Young, The (Middleton, N.Y.) Times
Herald-Record
Scott Zamost, CNN
Corinna Zarek, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press
Dean Zerbe, former senior counsel to Sen. Charles E.
Grassley (R-IA)
Oriana Zill de Granados, Center for Investigative Reporting
Daniel Zwerdling, NPR

IRE Conference calendar

May 23: Last day to make a hotel reservation (if rooms are still available).
May 26: Office closed for Memorial Day.
May 30: Speakers' reprints must arrive by this date.
June 5: Optional CAR day begins at 9 a.m.; Blues Bash begins at 7 p.m.
June 6: Conference kicks off at 9 a.m.
June 8: Conference concludes at noon.

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The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald

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