Do members of Congress know whether an expert testifying before them has any monetary connections to the outcome of their committee hearings? Do those testifying before them have an affiliation with a group or groups that might want to weaken oversight by an agency or strengthen ties with particular foreign governments? These were some of …
Journalists, often the subject of the president’s ire, continue to chronicle how his rhetoric inspires divisiveness and even violence. Yet such efforts to vilify the press have not deterred many young people from studying the field. Here’s a look at the latest news detailing the difficulty of practicing journalism today. In his first public speech …
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More than 1,500 journalists from 130 countries are expected at the 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference this week in Hamburg, Germany, this week.
George Lardner Jr., one of the most respected journalists in the United States, died Saturday, Sept. 21, at a hospice center in Aldie, Virginia. He had lived for decades with his family in Northwest Washington, D.C., and was a modest, gentlemanly descendant of many iconic writers – great-uncle and renown humorist Ring Lardner and Ring’s …
A new Pew Research Center report shows that Americans’ measure of trust in public officials continues to decline.
Animated by what President Donald Trump has repeatedly called a crisis on our Southern border, the administration has ramped up hard-line immigration policies, some of them targeting legal migrants.
Yo Noguchi leaves the Investigative Reporting Workshop next week after a year as a scholar-in-residence from Tokyo, where he has been a staff writer for The Asahi Shimbun Japanese daily newspaper for 20 years. He came to Washington to study campaign finance laws and practices and how they compare to those in Japan. The experience …
Nearly 250,000 people died because of opioid overdoses between 2010 and 2017. IRW and the Washington Post reported in May that the Trump administration has failed to allocate sufficient funds to fight the epidemic and has left crucial drug enforcement posts unfilled, despite declaring opioid addiction a public health emergency in 2017. While the federal …
We might be living in the golden age of podcasts. Investigative journalists, from reporters in the world’s largest newsrooms to independent producers striking out on their own, are using audio to tell stories previously reserved for 5,000-word stories. At IRW, we’ve curated a list of some of the best investigative podcasts for your binging pleasure. …
When asked how she got a homeless mother in New York City to share her story in the film “Lucky,” journalist Laura Checkoway said writing celebrity profiles for publications and in-depth pieces helped her develop a knack for getting people to open up; that, and a lot of patience. Checkoway was on assignment when she …
Seeing a need to streamline public data sets, we built The Accountability Project to put much of that data in one place so journalists, researchers and others could search across otherwise siloed data.
Investigating Power is a history of breakthrough investigations that revealed news and changed the national narrative on many major topics since the 1950s, from war to health to civil rights.
An interactive timeline examines President Trump’s use of executive orders to restrict access to the U.S.
In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation’s streets. A Washington Post investigation.
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