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Total Newsroom Training is designed to increase the ability of your news organization to provide watchdog and enterprise coverage for your community, and to produce work that can lead to changes and improvements in those communities.
For two days, we provide training in your newsroom based on the needs of your organization. We’ll provide hands-on training using spreadsheets and other data tools, plus cover investigative reporting topics that could include:
IRE works with reporters and editors to help them launch stories and projects. This can involve brainstorming, story planning, sourcing, etc. We will also be available to consult with reporters, editors and producers from the news organizations in the months following training.
All newsroom staff who go through the training will also receive one-year IRE memberships.
Applications for this year's program are due by Feb. 17, 2024. The application form must be filled out by the editor, news director or equivalent.
Newsrooms must be committed to allowing a significant portion of the staff and management to attend the entire training.Â
Selected newsrooms can choose for their training to be conducted virtually or in person as pandemic conditions allow. For in-person training, newsrooms will need to provide a projector and laptops/computers for attendees.
Dates of the training will be coordinated with the winning newsrooms and trainer. Training must be completed by December 2024.
The program is meant to help small- to medium-size news organizations improve the depth of their coverage. Preference will be given to:Â
We want to see the work you’ve produced after IRE training. Send us a link via Twitter or email.
Adam M. Rhodes is a first-generation Cuban American journalist whose work primarily focuses on queer people and the criminal justice system. Their recent work has examined HIV treatment access in Puerto Rico, HIV criminalization in Illinois, and a homophobic capital murder trial in the state. Rhodes was most recently a staff writer and social justice reporter at the Chicago Reader, and they have been published in outlets including BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post.
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