IRE Board elects officers for 2024-25

The 13-member IRE Board of Directors elected officers for the 2024-25 term at a meeting June 27. 

Brian M. Rosenthal, investigative reporter at The New York Times, was reelected president. 

Josh Hinkle, director of investigations and innovation at KXAN in Austin, Texas, was reelected vice president. 

Mark Greenblatt, executive editor of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, was reelected treasurer. 

The new secretary is Kate Howard, editorial director at Reveal and Mother Jones. She succeeded Darla Cameron of the Texas Tribune, who did not seek reelection.

The new at-large officer is Ana Ley, a reporter at The New York Times. She follows Lam Thuy Vo, a reporter at The Markup and associate data journalism professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York. Vo did not seek reelection.

Officers serve one-year terms. All board members serve two-year terms; six are elected one year and seven the next year. Seven seats were up for election this year.

Greenblatt and Howard were reelected to the board at this year’s elections and are beginning their second two-year terms.

Rosenthal, Hinkle and Ley are in the second year of two-year terms.

Five new board members were elected this year: Alejandra Cancino, investigative reporter based in Chicago; Mary Hudetz, ProPublica reporter based in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Andrew Lehren, director of investigative reporting at City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism; Paroma Soni, data and graphics reporter at POLITICO; and Marina Villeneuve, legal reporter at Salon.

Executive Director Diana R. Fuentes announced the results of the 2024 elections at IRE24 in Anaheim, California, on June 22. 

In addition to Cameron and Vo, three others ended their terms in June: Rick Gevers, longtime IRE member and broadcast journalism industry veteran; Aaron Kessler, data and investigative journalist with The Associated Press; and Mark Walker, investigative reporter at The New York Times. They did not seek reelection. 

All five along with former board member Simone Weichselbaum, national investigative reporter at NBCUniversal, who resigned for medical reasons last year, were recognized at the IRE24 Awards Luncheon on June 23 for their service.