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Personality disorder used to discharge soldiers, strip them of benefits

Published: April 13, 2010 | Written by: hdcoadmin
A report by Joshua Kors in The Nation explores the Army's fraudulent use of personality disorder diagnoses to discharge soldiers, thus stripping them of their disability benefits and long term […]
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Several IRE Members win Pulitzers for investigative work

Published: April 12, 2010 | Written by: hdcoadmin
Congratulations to several IRE members who won Pulitzer Prizes today. Daniel Gilbert, who won the Public Service Pulitzer, also won an IRE Award this year. The Pulitzer committee wrote that […]
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Resources for covering the West Virginia mining disaster

Published: April 6, 2010 | Written by: hdcoadmin
Just a quick reminder that IRE and NICAR have resources available to assist in covering the fatal explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia.   A list of […]
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Hawaii's long-term-care system for elderly fraught with problems

Published: April 1, 2010 | Written by: hdcoadmin
In a four-part series, Rob Perez of the Honolulu Advertiser found Hawaii's long-term-care system for the elderly is fraught with problems, including a placement system tainted by kickbacks and fraud. […]
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2009 IRE Award winners announced

Published: March 29, 2010 | Written by: hdcoadmin
Investigations that exposed failures of government regulation, abuse of military personnel and failures of the criminal justice system are among the work honored in the 2009 Investigative Reporters and Editors […]
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Personnel law in North Carolina shrouds records in secrecy

Published: March 26, 2010 | Written by: hdcoadmin
Keeping Secrets, a three-part series by The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)  for Sunshine Week, found North Carolina's 35-year-old personnel law is among the most secretive in the nation, barring […]
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Special probabtion protects dangerous drivers

Published: March 26, 2010 | Written by: hdcoadmin
Joe Mahr and Gerry Smith of the Chicago Tribune did a computer analysis of state police speeding tickets and driving records. They found that nearly two-thirds of the time, people […]
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CAR2010: Don't stop the learning

Published: March 19, 2010 | Written by: hdcoadmin
By Jaimi Dowdell, IRE Training Director IRE Resource Center staff have been busy adding tipsheets from the CAR conference. Handouts include information on forensic accounting, Web scraping, data on deadline, […]
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Free mapping tool available to IRE members

Published: March 17, 2010 | Written by: hdcoadmin
IRE members have access to a Web-based data exploration application to quickly and easily analyze demographic data while on deadline. ESRI and IRE made a special agreement to offer ESRI […]
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The Year in CAR slideshow

Published: March 16, 2010 | Written by: hdcoadmin
Take a look at some of the best computer-assisted news stories from the past year in this presentation: Year in CAR slideshow. IRE executive director Mark Horvit and training director Doug […]
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