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Dan Keating of the Washington Post used the CDC Wonder database to explore the racial breakdowns of gun deaths. What he found challenges the idea of having a gun for protection — at least for some.
"A white person is five times as likely to commit suicide with a gun as to be shot with a gun; for each African American who uses a gun to commit suicide, five are killed by other people with guns."
Learn how to use the same CDC data to investigate causes of death in your area.
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Tasked with reporting on mental health? Take a few minutes to listen to tips from Meg Kissinger of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Kissinger attended a recent Watchdog Workshop to talk about her series of award-winning stories investigating caregivers.
"We found people living in squalor," Kissinger said. "It really upset people." So how did she find them? She talked to people who had seen the worst of the worst. Listen to her explain the process:
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If you’ve been spending time on our site recently, you’ve likely noticed something new – audio.
For the last three months we’ve been working with a team of Mizzou journalism students to highlight and share our extensive library of audio recordings.
On IRE Radio you’ll find a collection of short audio clips pulled from our conferences, workshops and special events. Check back regularly to hear journalists discuss story ideas, tips and tools of the trade.
Here are a few packages we’ve already put together:
- The Prescribers (ProPublica)
- Deadly Delays (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- The Child Exchange (Reuters)
You can also find many of our audio clips and playlists on Soundcloud.
Full-length audio from CAR and IRE conferences is still available online. We also have recordings from many of our Watchdog Workshops. These recordings are only available for members.
Now that we’re up and running, we’d like your input. What kinds of audio would you like to see on our site? Is there a particular speaker or session that stuck with you that we should make available online? Send your ideas to Sarah Hutchins, IRE's web editor, at sarah@ire.org.
This week on IRE Radio we’ll be taking you inside the 2013 IRE Awards with audio from some of the reporters, editors and producers who worked on prize-winning stories. View the complete list of winners here.
Secrecy for Sale
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) "Secrecy For Sale: Inside The Global Offshore Money Maze" is one of the largest and most complex cross-border investigative projects in journalism history.
Mar Cabra of ICIJ explains some of the ways some the 110 journalists in about 60 countries communicated in order to comb through the offshore tax haven data base compiled from a leaked hard drive.
Cabra, along with David Donald, Margot Williams and Sebastian Mondial presented their work at the 2014 CAR Conference in Baltimore. They recapped their presentation here.
Cabra walks through how to use ICIJ's Offshore Leaks Database hosted on the ICIJ website. They also produced a short video tutorial.
View the Offshore Leaks database here.
This week on IRE Radio we’ll be taking you inside the 2013 IRE Awards with audio from some of the reporters, editors and producers who worked on prize-winning stories. View the complete list of winners here.
The Prescribers
ProPublica reporters Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber, Jennifer LaFleur and others were able to get Medicare Part D data released for the first time. Hear how to use their tools, the FOI process, and an example of a story they found.
Ornstein and LaFleur introduce the database and go over some basics on it's use. The Prescriber Checkup tool is available on ProPublica's website for anyone, reporter or patient, to use to find stories or check their own doctor.
Ornstein and LaFleur explain what made ProPublica's FOI request for Medicare Part D information successful.
Ornstein and LaFleur describe one of the stories they found going over the Medicare Part D database.
You can read all of the stories reported by the ProPublica team here.
By Hannah Schmidt
This week on IRE Radio we’ll be taking you inside the 2013 IRE Awards with audio from some of the reporters, editors and producers who worked on prize-winning stories. View the complete list of winners here.
Deadly Delays
"Deadly Delays" exposed processing delays that put newborn lives at risk. Ellen Gabler is the reporter and assistant editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigative team. Hear how the team fought for and analyzed data that helped change the screening process in multiple states.
This week on IRE Radio we’ll be taking you inside the 2013 IRE Awards with audio from some of the reporters, editors and producers who worked on prize-winning stories. View the complete list of winners here.
The Child Exchange
Members from the Reuters investigative team spoke at the NICAR conference about the 2013 IRE Award-winning story, "The Child Exchange."
Ryan McNeill explains how the Reuters team collected the data they needed for the groundbreaking story. He designed two different apps for the information they found: one app for data entry and another to view the emails.
You can read the award-winning story on the Reuters website here.
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