Here's a look at some of the sessions we're planning for #IRE23 in Orlando. Algunas sesiones se repetirán en español. (Some sessions will be repeated in Spanish.)
Please note that this list is preliminary and subject to change.
Panels & Demos
Equitable news gathering and reporting, exposing systemic inequities
- Investigating LGBTQ+ issues in the criminal legal system
- Investigating transgender homicides
- Investigating algorithmic harm: Best practices and hard-learned lessons
- Who’s it for? Bringing investigative stories to the communities we cover
- How to build a pipeline of talent and quality journalism in your community
- The case of Florida: How disinformation directly targets Latino communities
- Investigating Indigenous communities
- Digging deep into anti-trans legislation, locally and nationally
International
- Investigating forced labor in the United States and abroad
- Broad lens: reporting on human rights abuses
- How to SLAPP Back and introduction to Reporters Shield
- How to investigate the local impact of global organized crime.
- U.S. audiences and their changing demographics demand quality international news, so how can we meet these emerging needs?
- The year in international investigations
Business
- Investigating private equity’s impact on the healthcare system
- Digging into corporate misconduct
- Hidden costs and racial inequality in economic development
- Investigating business and finance
Management
- Creating a pipeline for journalists of color in leadership
- Being a player-coach
- How to lead in times of crisis
- Editors roundtable: The next generation of investigative journalists
- Pre-publication red flags for editors
Public records
- Creating a newsroom FOI coach/evangelist
- Secrets hidden in plain sight: Decoding 990s
- Court records are filled with untold stories: A PACER deep dive
- Navigating the federal FOIA & how to overcome barriers and find success
- 7 things you didn’t know about getting documents and records
- 50+ records to request right now
Tools and tech
- Tools to help you break into audio and video reporting
- Demo: Wayback Machine, TV News Archive, Internet Archive
- Free, easy data viz
- Cool new tools demo
On the beat
- Using data to uncover how climate change is affecting your city, and how officials are responding
- Reporting tips and tools for covering immigration in your local community
- Investigating transportation
- Navigating reporting on the mental healthcare industry
- Investigating prisons
- Investigating inequities in education
- Investigating big ag
- Investigating judges and the courts
- Investigating housing policies that perpetuate the wealth gap
- You need a disability beat: The stories and audiences we miss
- Investigating religious institutions
- Reporting on a military base near you
- Investigating water quality
- Following the money in college sports
- Finding inequities in access to higher education
- Infiltrating government agencies
- Police accountability: From data to narrative
- Investigating inequities in health care & the COVID-19 pandemic lingering impact
- Investigations for campus coverage
Reporting and writing strategies
- Solutions story ideas for investigative journalists
- Using narrative writing in your investigative journalism
- How to transition from daily reporting to writing a book
- The final fact check
- Making the pitch: Selling your editor on an investigative project
- How to find and work with sources who are reluctant to share their stories
- Pitch-in for pitches
- Storyboarding your investigation
Election coverage
- Covering elections in an “off” year
- Backgrounding politicians
- Covering local elections
Broadcast track
- Show & Tell - in English & Spanish
- 60 ideas in 60 minutes
- Anatomy of an investigation: Planning investigative pieces (start to finish)
- Building the investigative powerhouse and getting a job there
- Art of the interview: Getting sensitive sources to talk
- Investigating breaking news
- Investigative scripts that sing
- The journalism juggle: Balancing daily and investigative reporting
- Sources: How to get 'em, how to keep 'em
- The art of accountability
- From boring to blockbuster: Visualizing the non-visual investigation
- 10 most important lessons I've learned
- Right on the money: Consumer investigations that count
- Covering the inevitable: A mass shooting in my market
- Behind the badge, beyond the bench
- Teamwork makes the dream work: Collaboration for increased exposure
- Lightning talks
Other sessions include
- Detrás de la historia
- Visual investigations
- Investigating junk science
- Projects being done by student investigative journalists
- Funding investigations
- How to background people in an hour
- Investigating child welfare
- A year in local investigations: Watchdog stories ideas
- Freelancer secrets: How to be get paid for doing good investigative work
- What's next? Making career moves, big and small
- Why the fight against mis- and disinformation needs collaboration to succeed - here’s how we can work together
- When story subjects push back
- Early-career roundtable
- How does showing off our journalistic standards make our audience trust us more?
- So you want to do an investigative podcast?
- The unique challenges of telling the investigation for the ear
- Educators roundtable: Best practices for teaching
- How to make it as a freelancer in investigative journalism
- Trauma-informed reporting
- How to build a trauma-informed newsroom
Pre-registration classes
These sessions require pre-registration and an additional fee to reserve a seat.
Reporting and writing strategies
Hands-on
Management
Broadcast track
Hands-on skills training
- Accessing data for your news stories on Data.census.gov
- Google Sheets 1: Getting started with spreadsheets
- Google Sheets 2: Formulas & sorting
- Google Sheets 3: Filtering & pivot tables
- Google Sheets 4: Advanced pivot tables
- Google Sheets: Using string functions to manipulate data
- Google Sheets: Importing and data prep
- Google Sheets 1: Getting started with spreadsheets (repeat)
- Google Sheets 2: Formulas & sorting (repeat)
- Google Sheets 3: Filtering & pivot tables (repeat)
- Web scraping with Python
- Data analysis with Python
- R 1: Intro to R and RStudio
- R 2: Data analysis and plotting
- R 3: Gathering and cleaning data
- Converting PDFs to data
- Using OpenRefine, a power tool for cleaning data
- Scraping without programming
- An introduction to mapping with QGIS
- Finding needles in haystacks
- Investigating business and finance
Networking
- Journalists of color
- LGBTQIA+ journalists
- Students
- Educators
- Women
- Freelancers
