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Name|Twitter|Bio
Andy Pierrotti|@AndyP_KVUE|Andy is an accomplished journalist recognized with awards and fellowships from the George Foster Peabody organization, the Lone Star Emmy Chapter, Texas Broadcasters Association, Headliners Foundation of Texas, Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), Associated Press, Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) South Florida chapter, Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) and the John Jay Criminal Justice College in New York City. @AndyP_KVUE
Steve Eckert|@Steve_Eckert|Steve Eckert is a 5-time IRE Award winner now leading the investigative team at KARE 11 in Minneapolis. In addition to his IRE Awards, Steve’s work has been honored with national Emmy, Peabody, duPont-Columbia, Edward R. Murrow, RFK, SDX, and National Headliner Awards. @Steve_Eckert
Eva Parks|@NBCDFWEva|@NBCDFWEva is the producer for the award-winning investigative team at KXAS-TV. Since 2012, exposed flaws in airport security, helped uncover mistreatment of wounded soldiers, institute change in police policy and expose security and safety concerns at schools in North Texas. Eva has been nationally recognized with multiple journalism awards including four National Edward R. Murrow awards, two national Society of Professional Journalist awards and a National Emmy.
A. J. Lagoe|@AJInvestigates|A.J. Lagoe is an investigative reporter at KARE 11 TV in Minneapolis, MN. 2015 IRE Award winner. @AJInvestigates
Scott Friedman||Scott Friedman is senior investigative reporter at NBC5/KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth. His work has been recognized with some of broadcast journalism's top honors including four national Edward R. Murrow awards, two national SPJ/Sigma Delta Chi awards and a national Emmy for best regional investigative report. His recent investigation of care for soliders in the U.S. Army's Warrior Transition Units was a 2015 Peabody Award finalist.
Randy Mac|@randynbcla|Randy Mac has been an award winning reporter for 26 years. Currently serving as part of KNBC'S ITEAM as their Consumer Investigator since July 2014. Prior to that Randy was a lead Reporter/Investigator and Bureau Chief at KXAS in Dallas. Randy also spent time working in Oklahoma City (KOCO 6 YRS.) Dayton Oh. (WHIO 2 YRS. EDUCATION REPORTER) and Erie Pa. (WSEE 3 1/2POLITICAL REPORTER) Randy's work has earned him various awards throughout his career.@randynbcla
Scott MacFarlane|@MacFarlaneNews|Scott MacFarlane is an investigative reporter for WRC-TV (NBC Washington) focusing on government and security. He does extensive work with FOIA, federal programs, federal courts, public schools and quick-turn investigations. Scott is a former Congressional and enterprise correspondent for COX Media Group. @MacFarlaneNews
Amy Corral||Amy Corral is an Investigative Producer at KNBC in Los Angeles. Over the course of a 20+ year career, she's worked as a Line Producer, Special Projects Producer and Executive Producer in LA and Bay Area newsrooms. She's also been a Senior Producer for the HGTV series "House Hunters," and Supervising Producer of the Food Network series "BBQ with Bobby Flay."
Aaron Diamant||Aaron Diamant is an investigative reporter for WSB-TV in Atlanta. Aaron specializes in breaking news and shorter-term investigations. His long-term projects have exposed fraud, public corruption, and failures within all levels of government. Aaron’s work has been honored with nine Emmy Awards, as well as numerous reporting and writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, and several state and local press clubs and associations.
Aaron Kessler|@akesslerdc|Aaron Kessler is CAR Specialist on the Scripps National Investigative Team in Washington, D.C. He previously wrote about business and the auto industry for The New York Times, covering recall scandals like Takata airbags and Volkswagen emissions cheating. Prior to that, he was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia, and worked in newspapers for many years, including the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune and Joplin Globe. @akesslerdc
Christopher Schnaars|@chrisschnaars|Chris is a database editor and SQL/PostgreSQL ninja at USA Today, where he assists other journalists with data analysis, built and maintains a database of FEC campaign finance reports and sometimes writes functional Python code. github.com/cschnaars ! @chrisschnaars
Nancy Watzman||Nancy Watzman is managing editor of the Political TV Ad Archive for the Internet Archive. She's worked for the Sunlight Foundation, the Center for Responsive Politics, & the Center for Public Integrity. She co-wrote Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day (John Wiley & Sons, 2004). She has also contributed to The Buying of the Congress (Avon Books, 1998), Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly.
Aaron Sharockman|@asharock|Aaron Sharcokman is the executive director of PolitiFact. Aaron oversees PolitiFact’s operations, development and revenue, assists in our journalistic mission, manages our state partnerships and lead efforts to develop new products for PolitiFact users. He also helps coordinate some of our special products, including our debate coverage and our media appearances. Aaron has been with PolitiFact since 2010. @asharock
Robert Maguire|@RobertMaguire_|Robert started CRP's Politically Active Nonprofit Project, a Knight News Challenge-funded program that uses IRS, FEC, and FCC data to track and illustrate the financial networks of dark money political groups. Robert has written for and collaborated with news outlets like the Washington Post, the NY Times, NPR, and CNN. In 2014, he won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for a series of stories based on CRP’s dark money data. @RobertMaguire_
Paula Lavigne|@pinepaula|Paula Lavigne is an investigative reporter for ESPN and works on the show "Outside the Lines." She also writes for ESPN.com and does in-house investigative training. She was a recipient of a 2014 duPont award for investigative reporting. She previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, The Des Moines Register and The News-Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. She has a bachelor's of journalism degree from the University of Nebraska and an MBA from Creighton University. @pinepaula
Frank LoMonte|@franklomonte|First Amendment lawyer Frank LoMonte is Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that provides free legal support for journalists covering school and college issues. He teaches about the law of social media as an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia. @franklomonte
Aaron Wische|@AaronKPRC|Aaron Wische is Senior Executive Producer of News Strategy at KPRC-TV in Houston, overseeing the station's 12 person team of investigative and enterprise journalists. Aaron has also served as EP of investigative teams at KNXV in Phoenix, KTVT in Dallas, WTTG in Washington, DC and WFTS in Tampa. He's the winner of a Columbia DuPont silver baton, an IRE Certificate, a Peabody Award and 8 regional Emmy awards in his 19 year TV career. @AaronKPRC
Jill Riepenhoff|@JRiep|Jill Riepenhoff has worked at The Columbus Dispatch since 1985 where she has investigated, among other things, predatory mortgage brokers, slumlords, guardians who neglect and steal, campus crime and the devastating costs of suicide. For kicks, she digs into the dark sides of youth, high school and college athletics. She also is an IRE board member. @JRiep
Matt Apuzzo||Matt Apuzzo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times. Based in Washington, he focuses on national security, criminal justice and the long, winding road toward a post-post-9/11 America.
Brett Blackledge||Brett is an editor with the Naples Daily News, working with reporters covering government and developing enterprise stories. He previously worked on investigative teams with The Associated Press and Newhouse newspapers in Alabama. He has served as a Pulitzer juror for the past two years, and won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism.
Amy Fiscus|@amyfiscus|Amy Fiscus is an editor in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing, overseeing a team of White House and 2016 campaign reporters. She has edited at The Associated Press, including on special assignment helping coordinate coverage of the Newtown shooting, as well as at The Charlotte Observer. @amyfiscus
Adam Goldman|@adamgoldmanwp|Adam Goldman has covered national security for The Washington Post since December 2013. Before joining The Post, he spent 11 years with The Associated Press. His last posting was on the AP's investigative team in Washington, D.C. Among other journalism awards, Goldman is the recipient 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and co-author of "Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America." @adamgoldmanwp
Adam Playford|@adamplayford|Adam Playford is Director of Data and Digital Enterprise at the Tampa Bay Times. @adamplayford
Paul Cheung|@pcheung630|Paul Cheung is AP’s Director of Interactives and Digital News Production. The director leads a global team of visual journalists, data journalists and researchers who produce multimedia stories and information graphics for all formats, including print, online, mobile, social and virtual reality. Cheung is Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)’s national president since 2013 and also a 2016 Punch Sulzberger Fellow. @pcheung630
Al Tompkins|@atompkins|Al Tompkins is Poynter's Senior Faculty for Broadcast and Online. He brings 43 years of journalism and teaching experience to his work. Al has taught journalists in 49 states, Canada, Egypt, South Africa, Iceland, Denmark and beyond. His book "Aim for the Heart" is used in more than 125 university journalism departments around the world.  @atompkins
Terry Parris Jr.||Terry is ProPublica's community editor. Prior to joining ProPublica, he led digital production and engagement at WDET 101.9 FM, NPR’s affiliate in Detroit.
Carrie Brown|@brizzyc|Carrie Brown is the director of the social journalism program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Twitter handle: @brizzyc
Alana Jesse||No bio
Jesse Hardman|@jesseahardman|Jesse Hardman is a public radio reporter, writer, and media developer. He's the creator of the Listening Post, an innovative community engagement project based in New Orleans that’s inspired similar programs around the US. He's been a regular contributor to NPR, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde Diplomatique, and other outlets. @jesseahardman
Brian Patrick O'Donoghue||Brian O'Donoghue: Alaska journalist, author, accidental professor, "combative" state witness in 2015 Fairbanks Four hearings, 2012 Fulbright-Nehru Scholar, 2009 UAF Iraq embeds team leader, Red Lantern "winner" '91 Iditarod & '98 Yukon Quest, recovering dog musher, three-time proud dad.
Brad Heath|@bradheath|Brad Heath is an investigative reporter for USA TODAY, where he writes mostly about law and criminal justice. His work includes investigations of wrongdoing by federal prosecutors and air pollution, and helped prompt the U.S. Justice Department to free at least 35 people from federal prison. Before joining USA TODAY, he was a reporter for The Detroit News and The (Binghamton, N.Y.) Press & Sun-Bulletin. He is a member of the Virginia bar. @bradheath
Alec Klein||Alec Klein is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author and professor at Northwestern University where, under his leadership, the renowned Medill Justice Project has uncovered revelatory information and impacted legal proceedings throughout the country. A former Washington Post investigative reporter, Klein's investigations have led to significant reforms, congressional hearings, federal law, criminal convictions and millions in government fines.
Maurice Possley|@mauricepossley|Maurice Possley, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, is senior researcher at the National Registry of Exonerations, a national online database of more than 1,800 wrongful convictions in the U.S. since 1989. A reporter for more than three decades, Possley covered criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, where he was a reporter for 25 years and a four-time Pulitzer finalist. He is the author of three non-fiction books. @mauricepossley
Alejandro González||Alejandro González is the chief commercial officer at 14ymedio, Cuba’s first independent digital news platform founded by acclaimed independent journalist, Yoani Sánchez. In this capacity, he is responsible for supporting the work of 14ymedio’s team in Cuba by expanding partnerships and driving development efforts for the news platform. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and currently resides in Miami, FL.
David Lemayian|@DavidLemayian|David Lemayian serves as Code for Africa’s lead technologist, managing a team of software developers and pilot CitizenLab accelerator, plus all shared “backbone” infrastructure. Code for Africa is the continent’s largest federation of civic technology and data journalism labs, incubated by the International Center for Journalists, with affiliate civic tech labs in: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania & Uganda. @DavidLemayian
Amanda Strydom||Amanda Strydom is Managing Editor for the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting. She is also Programme Manager for afriLEAKS, a platform connecting whistleblowers to newsrooms.
Carlos Eduardo Huertas||Carlos Eduardo Huertas: Director of CONNECTAS a journalistic platform that is consolidating in the region of the hand of the Investigative Reporting Initiative in the Americas, a project in alliance with International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) He is member of the Board of Directors of Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), and member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ). He is part of the winning investigative teams on several international awards.
David Kaplan||David E. Kaplan is executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, an association of 128 nonprofit organizations in 58 countries dedicated to investigative reporting. Over a 35-year career he has managed nonprofit newsrooms, investigative teams, and cross-border projects, reported from two dozen countries, and won or shared 25 awards. He is a four-time winner of the IRE Award, including three medals.
Drew Sullivan||Drew Sullivan founded the Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia (2004) and co-founded the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Program where he serves as editor (2007). Under his leadership, OCCRP stories have led to more than $2.8 billion being frozen/seized, 90 people arrested/indicted, 12 politicians resigning including a prime minister. His team has won more than 40 international prizes including the European Press Prize and this year’s Tom Renner award.
Rana Sabbagh||Rana Sabbagh is a founder and executive director of ARIJ. She has dedicated the last 33 years of her career as a journalist, columnist and media trainer to free speech, independent and free media and human rights. She is a board member of the GIJN.
Gordon Russell|@GordonRussell1|Gordon Russell is managing editor for investigations for The Advocate, Louisiana's largest newspaper. He was part of a team of Advocate reporters honored with an IRE award this year for an ongoing investigation into Louisiana's correctional department. He is the former city editor of The Times-Picayune, where he was part of a group of reporters who won two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Follow him on Twitter @GordonRussell1
Jon Marcus|@JonMarcusBoston|Jon Marcus is higher-education editor at the Hechinger Report and North America correspondent for the Times (U.K.) Higher Education magazine. He has written about higher education for Time, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, the Huffington Post, and other magazines, newspapers, and websites. @JonMarcusBoston
Alex Richards||Alex Richards came to IRE from the Chicago Tribune, where he was a reporter specializing in investigative data journalism. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and received the Goldsmith award, among others, for the Las Vegas Sun series “Do No Harm,” with ProPublica’s Marshall Allen. More recently, he shared IRE's FOI medal for stories on Chicago's truancy epidemic. In addition to reporting for the Sun, he helped manage data coverage and interactive news for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He's also an IRE alum, having worked as a data analyst for NICAR while attending the Missouri School of Journalism.
Jaimi Dowdell|@ire|Jaimi Dowdell is senior training director of IRE. Since 2008, she's trained thousands of journalists in document- and data-driven reporting. Before that she was computer-assisted reporting editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In addition to her work at the Post-Dispatch, she taught a CAR course for Washington University in St. Louis. She received her master's degree from the University of Missouri. Email: jaimi@ire.org Twitter: @JaimiDowdell
Mark Horvit|@markhorvit|Mark Horvit is executive director of IRE. He oversees training, conferences and services for more than 5,000 members worldwide, and programs including NICAR and DocumentCloud. Horvit also is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. He serves as a member of the board of the National Freedom of Information Coalition. He previously worked as a reporter, editor and on projects teams at newspapers for 20 years. @markhorvit
Liz Lucas|@eklucas|Liz Lucas is the NICAR Database Library director. She came to IRE from The Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC, where she analyzed data for investigative projects on political, environmental and health topics. She worked on Poisoned Places, which won the Sigma Delta Chi award for Public Service journalism from SPJ and was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize. She has a graduate degree from Mizzou. @eklucas
Megan Luther|@ire|Megan Luther joined IRE as training director in February 2012. Megan has worked in radio, TV and most recently, newspapers. Before she joined IRE, Megan was a government reporter for the Argus Leader in South Dakota and a computer-assisted reporting specialist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Previously, she worked at IRE and NICAR in the Database Library while completing her master's degree at the University of Missouri. Email: megan@ire.org Twitter: @MeganLuther
Alexios Mantzarlis|@Mantzarlis|Alexios Mantzarlis joined Poynter to lead the International Fact-Checking Network in September 2015. He previously served as Managing Editor of Pagella Politica and FactCheckEU, respectively Italy's main political fact-checking website and the EU's first multilingual crowd-checking project. He has presented fact-checking segments on Italian TV and led seminars on fact-checking around the world. @Mantzarlis
Bill Adair||Bill Adair is the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism & Public Policy at Duke University and the Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. He is the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact and still works for the organization as a contributing editor. He worked for 24 years as a reporter and editor for the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) before joining Duke in 2013.
Greg Borowski|@GregJBorowski|Greg Borowski is deputy managing editor for projects, investigations and digital innovation at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In that role, he has overseen projects that have won virtually every major journalism award, including the Pulitzer Prize. Before becoming investigations editor in 2009, he spent nearly 20 years as a reporter. He is the author of three books. @GregJBorowski
Dave Savini||Investigate reporter for CBS2 Chicago. Savini is the recipient of the national Alfred I. DuPont and Edward R. Murrow awards, 14 Emmys and is a five-time Associated Press award winner for Best Reporter. Prior to joining CBS, he was the investigative reporter for NBC Chicago. The first IRE conference he attended, in 1988 while in college, led to his first investigation – Savini exposed rampant student housing code violations for the University of Dayton Flyer News.
Susanne Reber|@s_reber|Susanne Reber is the co founder and executive editor of Reveal, a Peabody award winning US public radio show and podcast produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. Prior to joining CIR Susanne formed and led NPR's first Investigations Unit. She also spent 23 years at the CBC where she was deputy managing editor of National Radio News and executive producer of CBC's Michener Award-winning Investigative Unit. @s_reber
Alice Brennan|@alicitabrennan|Once labelled The Velvet Hammer, Alice is a muckraking, grime-chasing, crime-stopping investigative producer for Fusion. She previously worked at Bloomberg TV, Thomson Reuters, Al Jazeera English with extensive investigative journalism and research experience prior. Alice received her M.A. in political journalism from Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism. She is passionate about justice and interpretive dance. @alicitabrennan
Alison Young|@alisonannyoung|Alison Young is a reporter on USA TODAY's investigative team and a past president of IRE’s board of directors. She also has reported for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Knight Ridder’s Washington Bureau, Detroit Free Press, The Arizona Republic and the Dallas Times Herald. Her reporting honors include three Gerald Loeb Awards, three Scripps Howard Awards and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. Recent projects: biolabs.usatoday.com and lead.usatoday.com @alisonannyoung
Charles Lewis||Charles Lewis is the founding executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University in Washington. A former producer for ABC News and CBS News 60 Minutes, he founded the award-winning Center for Public Integrity (1989) and its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (1997). A bestselling author or co-author of six books, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 and the PEN USA First Amendment award in 2004
Dan Kane||Dan Kane is on The News & Observer's investigative team. He's best known for his work to expose what experts have called the worst academic-athletic scandal in NCAA history at the University of North Carolina. He's twice been a finalist for an IRE award and twice a finalist for the IRE FOI award.
Amy Pyle|@amy_pyle|Amy Pyle is editor in chief for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Previously, Pyle worked as assistant managing editor for investigations at The Sacramento Bee and as a reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times. @amy_pyle
Jennifer Forsyth||Jennifer Forsyth is Deputy Investigations Chief at The Wall Street Journal, helping manage a team of 16 reporters and data specialists. She also coordinates investigations throughout the newsroom. Previously, she held the position of U.S. Editor, overseeing the National and Greater New York sections, and served as Dallas and Law bureau chief. Prior to the Journal, she was a reporter on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s investigative team.
Flynn McRoberts|@FlynnMcRoberts|lynn McRoberts is a deputy editor for Projects and Investigations at Bloomberg News and Businessweek, working with reporters around the globe. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2009, McRoberts worked for 20 years at the Chicago Tribune, including as an editor on a project that won a Pulitzer for investigating the shoddy regulation of children's products. He lives in Chicago with his two kids and wife, Monica Davey, the New York Times' Midwest bureau chief. @FlynnMcRoberts
Andrea Parquet-Taylor|@AParquet1|Andrea Parquet-Taylor is News Director at CBS North Carolina. She is a strategic thinker who successfully builds award winning news operations. Under her leadership, CBS North Carolina, formerly WNCN, received multiple honors including Emmys, AP , RTDNAC awards and the station's first Murrow award for a major investigation into tainted well water. Parquet-Taylor created a standout culture of powerful investigative reporting at CBS North Carolina. @AParquet1
Cheryl W. Thompson|@cherylwt|Cheryl W. Thompson is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post and an IRE board member. Since coming to The Post in 1997, she has written about murders in the nation's capital, immigration, corruption and most recently, people who died after being Tasered by police. Her work has won an Emmy Award, two NABJ awards and numerous other national and regional awards. She also was part of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. @cherylwt
T. Christian Miller|@txtianmiller|T. Christian Miller is a senior reporter at ProPublica. He's written about a bunch of interesting stuff. Cops. Wars. Politicis. A pig farmer. Ask him and he'll expound. Especially if you ply him with coffee. @txtianmiller
Marina Trahan Martinez|@HisGirlHildy|As half of The Dallas Morning News Watchdog team, Marina investigates, reports, researches, and analyzes everything published in print, digitally, and in NBC broadcasts. Dave Lieber and Marina learn and share the latest information, tips and tools to win at a life riddled with scammers, corporate sharks and double-talking government officials. She serves the public at community papers, the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, and freelancing for The New York Times. @HisGirlHildy
Matthew Glasser|@MediaMatthew|Matthew Glasser is an Investigative Producer at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. He’s been honored with local, regional and national awards including the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award. Prior to joining KNBC’s I-Team, Matthew was the station’s Health and Medical Producer. He was also Executive Producer of two nationally-syndicated television shows and a Special Projects Producer at KFMB-TV. He volunteers by teaching media to at-risk youth. @MediaMatthew
Harry Hairston|@harryhairston|Harry Hairston is NBC 10 Philadelphia's Senior Investigative Reporter. The Multi-Emmy winner broke the sex allegations story against Bill Cosby in 2005, then broke the 2015 arrest of Cosby in connection with those allegations. In 2013 Hairston , an Emmy for his Investigative series uncovering candy drop box scammers. In 2012 an Emmy for exclusive jailhouse interview with Rabbi Fred Neulander. The Rabbi, was serving time for the 1994 murder of his wife. @harryhairston
Andres Cediel||Andrés Cediel is an award-winning producer at the Investigative Reporting Program. He produced “Rape in the Fields,” a multi-platform, bilingual production which won a duPont-Columbia award, a Robert F. Kennedy award, and was nominated for an Emmy. His latest film, “Rape on the Night Shift,” won the IRE Award for Large Format Broadcast. He currently teaches at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism.
Daffodil Altan|@daffodilaltan|Daffodil Altan is an Emmy-nominated journalist and documentary producer at the Investigative Reporting Program. She produced the Frontline/Univision documentary, Rape on the Night Shift (2015), and has produced and written for: MSNBC, Telemundo, PBS NewsHour, Reveal, The Los Angeles Times, and Mother Jones, among others. She has been recognized for her work by IRE, SPJ, The MacArthur Foundation, the Los Angeles Press Club, and Latino Public Broadcasting. @daffodilaltan
Joel Grover|@JoelNBCLA|Joel Grover is the senior investigative reporter at NBC Los Angeles. He has won nearly every major award for investigative reporting, including the Peabody, the DuPont-Columbia, six national Edward R. Murrows, and four IRE Awards (including two Medals). His reports have changed laws and resulted in prison sentences and millions of dollars in refunds to consumers. @JoelNBCLA
Mc Nelly Torres|@WatchdogDiva|Mc Nelly Torres is an award-winning journalist and now an investigative producer for NBC6 in Miami. In 2010, Torres co-founded FCIR.org, an investigative nonprofit. Her consumer stories at the Sun-Sentinel won state, regional and national awards and led to the arrest of a bad contractor. She covered education for the San Antonio Express-News where her work contributed to the conviction of a school building architect. In South Carolina, she garnered local and state awards for her investigative work on the state's hog farm permit filing process. Torres served on the IRE Board, 2008-2014. @WatchdogDiva
Andrew Lehren|@lehrennyt|Andy Lehren is a New York Times reporter whose recent work spurred changes at military hospitals. He has mined the Snowden files; probed Wikileaks troves for the best-selling “Open Secrets”; contributed to a Pulitzer-winning examination of tainted pharmaceuticals; uncovered pension abuses and investigated sports. For NBC he reported on 9/11, terrorism and racially biased policing. Honors include a Polk, Peabody and three IRE awards. He teaches at CUNY. @lehrennyt
Kendall Taggart|@KendallTTaggart|Kendall Taggart is reporter on the investigations team at BuzzFeed News. Previously, she was a reporter at The Center for Investigative Reporting. She's worked on projects about bad charities, dangerous pesticides and judges who violate the law. @KendallTTaggart
Richard Pienciak|@rpienciak|Richard T. Pienciak, national investigative editor for The Associated Press, directs long-term domestic projects and investigations close to the news. He was an editor and reporter on two Pulitzer finalist projects and a Polk Award winner. He is a former assistant managing editor and metro editor at the New York Daily News, and the author of three nonfiction books. He’s part of AP’s localization effort to distribute data to newsrooms nationwide. @rpienciak
Andy Donohue|@add|Andy Donohue (@add) is the managing editor for Reveal + The Center for Investigative Reporting. Previously, he helped build and lead Voice of San Diego. He was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University and serves on the IRE board of directors.
Laura Smitherman||Laura Smitherman, assistant managing editor at The Baltimore Sun, oversees the news operations as well as the investigative team. She focuses on watchdog reporting and investigative enterprise from around the newsroom. She joined The Sun in 2005 as a business reporter, then covered the governor and state legislature. She previously worked at Bloomberg News in Washington, covering Congress, and at the El Paso Times in Texas on the legal affairs beat.
Jenna Russell||Jenna Russell is an investigative reporter with the Spotlight Team at The Boston Globe. Her award-winning projects include 68 Blocks, an immersive multimedia series about a Boston neighborhood, and A Tormenting Problem, an examination of childhood bullying that won a Dart Award from Columbia University. She is a co-author of two non-fiction books: Last Lion, a biography of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and Long Mile Home, about the Boston Marathon bombing.
Jennifer Welch|@jennajwelch|Jennifer Welch is the co-creator and director of StoryWorks for Reveal and the CIR. Blending high artistic standards and award-winning journalism, StoryWorks presents truthful and beautifully rendered stories that shine a spotlight on the human costs of injustice and structural inequality and help drive social change. @jennajwelch
Michelle T. Johnson||Michelle T. Johnson, a former journalist and attorney, is a Kansas City-based local and national diversity speaker and writer. As a playwright, Johnson has had plays produced in the Greater Kansas City, Mo area, as well as festivals in Houston, Texas, Medford, Connecticut, Louisville, Ky., Philadelphia, Pa. and in several NYC festivals. Johnson’s play “Rights of Passage” was most recently selected for Kansas City Repertory Theater OriginKC New Works Festival.
Mike McGraw||Mike McGraw is the Hale Center for Journalism's special projects reporter at Kansas City Public Television. He comes to KCPT after a 30-year career on The Kansas City Star's investigations team. He has covered issues as diverse as the business of college sports, art forgery, the beef industry, workplace safety and wrongful convictions.
Mostafa ElMarsafawy|@marsafawy|Investigator Reporter and TV Producer @marsafawy
Carlos Dada|@carlosdada|Carlos Dada is founder and director of El Faro, a Salvadoran Online Media awarded for its investigative pieces on organized crime and war crimes. He is a Stanford Knight Fellow 05, and has received the Maria Moors Cabot Award 2011, LASA Media Award 2010 and the Anna Politkovskaja Award 2012. @carlosdada
Angela Kocherga|@AKochergaBorder|Angela Kocherga serves as a director of the borderlands bureau of Cronkite News at Arizona PBS and a professor of practice at the Cronkite School of Journalism.As Bureau Chief in Mexico City and on the border for Belo and later Tegna Broadcasting, she's reported on drug violence, Mexico's disappeared and the mass migration of Central American children. On the US side she's covered the security buildup, human and drug smuggling among other stories. @AKochergaBorder
Bruce Shapiro|@dartcenter|Bruce Shapiro is executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, based at Columbia Journalism School. He is editor of Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America. @dartcenter
Josh Meyer|@JoshMeyerDC|Josh Meyer is a senior investigative reporter on the NBC News Investigations Unit in Washington, D.C., a Medill journalism school professor and the co-author of the 2012 book, "The Hunt For KSM, Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed." He is also an award-winning former 20-year staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. He has been on the IRE Board of Directors since 2011. @JoshMeyerDC
Angie Moreschi||Angie is Communications Director and Investigator for the James Hoyer Law Firm in Tampa, which specializes in handling whistleblower cases. She is also Managing Editor of their legal and consumer websites. Before joining the firm, Angie worked as an investigative journalist and anchor at TV stations around the country. She has received multiple Emmys and national awards, including an IRE Medal. Her weekly consumer segments air on Tampa's Bay News 9 & Orlando's News 13.
Marta Jewson|@martajewson|Marta Jewson is an education reporter for The Lens. She helped found the hyperlocal news site Mid-City Messenger and also worked for the St. Cloud Times. Her reporting led to a state investigation of a New Orleans charter school and state sanctions against the school. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in journalism and a concentration in educational policy studies. @martajewson
Michael Hudson||Michael Hudson is a senior editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. where he has worked on half a dozen groundbreaking investigations, including ICIJ's Panama Papers and World Bank projects. His work has shared many honors, including an IRE Award, two George Polk Awards and an Overseas Press Club Award. He is author of "The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis."
Anna Hewson|@annahewson1|Anna is the investigative photojournalist/producer for a team of award winning reporters known as 9Wants to Know, who investigate corruption, crime, and scams targeting the people of Colorado. 9WTK are the proud winners of many prestigious awards including a 2011 Columbia DuPont Silver Baton. 9WTK was a finalist for an 2012 IRE Freedom of Info award for Failed to Death, a series exposing the deaths of Colorado children under the watch of Human Services. @annahewson1
Evan Stulberger|@evan4ny|Evan Stulberger is an investigative producer with WNBC in New York, NY. For more than a decade, Evan has been using technology to bring emotion and visual interest to stories about numbers, audits, and lawsuits. Evan’s investigative pieces have earned nationwide honors in the National Press Photographers Association’s video editing competition. He has won Emmy awards for photography and editing, and several regional Murrow awards for investigative reporting. @evan4ny
Felipe Escamilla||Felipe Escamilla has been a multi-Emmy winning Investigative Videojournalist with KNTV, the NBC affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2012. Prior to that he worked as the primary Sports Photog and Producer for NBC Bay Area where his work was awarded with multiple Emmy awards as well as numerous recognitions from the NPPA. He also has on-camera experience, but enjoys not having to shave for several days in a row and stays behind the camera as much as he can.
Peter Hull|@peterkhull|Peter Hull is the Investigative Photographer & Editor at KXAS, the NBCUniversal owned television station in Dallas-Fort Worth. Peter brings a visual storytelling element to the Investigative unit, taking stories that are document heavy and lacking supporting video and turning them into immersive, long-format stories. He enjoys the challenge of simplifying data rich projects and connecting viewers to memorable moments. Twitter: @peterkhull
Renette Dejoie-Hall||No bio
Anthony Advincula||Anthony Advincula is a New York City-based writer, editor and national media director with New America Media. He was a former correspondent for The Jersey Journal and managing editor of the Independent Press Association-NY. He was a recipient of a number of journalism fellowships, including the Charles H. Revson Fellowship and the New York Times Foreign Press Fellowship. He received his master's degrees in journalism and public policy from Columbia University.
Jinx Broussard||No bio
Kristal Brent Zook|@KristalZook|Kristal Brent Zook is an award-winning reporter and two-time Nation Books author who covers race, gender, social justice issues and popular culture. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Essence, the Nation, the Guardian, NPR and others. Kristal is also a professor and former director of the M.A. Journalism Program at Hofstra University in New York. @KristalZook
Minhaj Hasan||Minhaj Hasan has served as editor-in-chief of the Muslim Link newspaper for the last 15 years. His reporting on issues of interest to American Muslims has taken him to capitol hill, the US Supreme Court, and every major mosque in the greater Washington-Baltimore metropolitan region.
Chris King|@chriskingstl|Chris King is managing editor and reporter for the St. Louis American (stlamerican.com), Missouri's largest weekly newspaper that is regularly awarded the nation's best black-owned newspaper. He is proud of recent journalism awards from Empower Missouri, The Jennings School District and The Missouri Bar. Previously he covered Connecticut for The New York Times, reviewed books for The Nation, and fronted the traveling rock band Eleanor Roosevelt. @chriskingstl
Juan Esparza Loera||Juan Esparza Loera has been editor of Vida en el Valle, a bilingual weekly published by McClatchy Newspapers, since its founding in 1990. The English/Spanish newpaper has five zoned editions in Central California (Fresno, Merced, Modesto, Stockton and Sacramento) with a circulation of 155,000. Esparza Loera graduated from Fresno State University in 1978 with a bachelor's in Mass Communications. He has also worked at The Modesto Bee and The Bakersfield Californian.
Jenise Morgan|@Jmorgannews|Jenise is editor of the Florida Courier, a statewide African-American weekly based in Tampa. The Florida A&M University graduate has been a reporter and news editor at publications in Florida and Georgia, including the Orlando Sentinel and her hometown paper, the Naples Daily News. She is a 2013-2014 recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalists and wrote a series about the stigma in the black community. @Jmorgannews
Joe Wei||Writing for World Journal for more than two decades, he started at wire desk as a translator/rewrite, then a beat reporter. He covered several major trials related to major Chinese mafia fraternal orgs & Golden Venture smuggling case. Before becoming the editor, he was assignment editor at metro/city desk. He worked closely covering the aftermath of economic recovery of Chinatown as World Trade Center came under attack. Promoted to the national desk in 2002, then managing editor since 2007. From Taipei, he graduated from University of Rhode Island with a master of Marine Affairs & Political Science.
Barbara Gray||Barbara Gray is an Associate Professor and Chief Librarian at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where she teaches research methods. She is the former Director of News Research at The New York Times. Gray holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Long Island University's Palmer School, and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is currently writing a biography of Sophie Lyons.
Margot Williams||Margot Williams is now Research Editor for Investigations at The Intercept. She has pursued jihadists online and detainees who died in U.S. immigration detention, investigated Iraq war contractors and followed the money (and private jets) of mayors, governors, senators, presidential candidates and ex-presidents at ICIJ, NPR, The New York Times and the Washington Post.
Lois Beckett||Lois Beckett is a senior reporter for The Guardian covering gun policy and politics. She previously covered the intersection of data and politics for ProPublica. Her Essence Magazine story on PTSD caused by gun violence, “Black America’s Invisible Crisis,” won a 2015 Deadline Award for public service and a NABJ Salute to Excellence Award in investigative journalism. Her gun reporting has also been featured on The New Republic and in the NYT Sunday Review section.
Ben Hallman|@ben_hallman|Ben Hallman is Deputy Editor of The Trace, a startup nonprofit covering guns in America. Until recently, he was the investigations editor at HuffPost, where he won national awards for coverage of the foreclosure crisis, the for-profit hospice industry, the subsidization of college sports (with the Chronicle of Higher Ed) and World Bank-financed evictions (with ICIJ). Former CPI and AmLaw. Data journalism enthusiast. Pro-collaboration. Lapsed Alabamian. @ben_hallman
Matt Drange|@mattdrange|Matt Drange is a staff writer at Forbes magazine, where he covers technology & its intersection with guns. Before joining Forbes earlier this year, Matt worked at The Center for Investigative Reporting, where he won numerous state and national journalism awards. Matt's proposal to allow student members of IRE to vote for the Board of Directors was adopted in 2015. Follow Matt on Twitter @mattdrange, and if you really want to get his attention use the #FOIAFriday hashtag.
Mike McLively||Mike McLively is a Staff Attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. He recently authored a report, Healing Communities in Crisis: Lifesaving Solutions to the Urban Gun Violence Epidemic, which identifies promising gun violence intervention strategies. Mr. McLively also focuses on Second Amendment issues and coordinates the Law Center's amicus brief practice. He is extremely interested in how the media shapes the debate surrounding gun violence in America.
Jonathan Bullington||No bio
Ben Jones||Ben Jones is the Sr. Tableau Public Product Manager for Tableau Software in Seattle and the author of Communicating Data with Tableau (O'Reilly, 2014). He leads a team of data analysts that work with journalists and bloggers to share interactive data on the web. He's also an avid user of Tableau Public himself, publishing vizzes and tutorials at DataRemixed. Ben has a background in mechanical engineering (BSME, UCLA 2000) and business (MBA, CLU 2011), and is co-chair of the Tapestry Data Storytelling Conference. Ben teaches data visualization at the University of Washington.
Daniel Lathrop|@lathropd|Daniel Lathrop teaches at the University of Iowa journalism school and writes for national print and online outlets. He also contributes to and serves on the board of IowaWatch. Before joining the UI he spent 15 years as a reporter and data journalism for online and print newsrooms, most recently the The Dallas Morning News. @lathropd
Jodi Upton|@jodiupton|Jodi Upton is the Senior Database Editor at USA TODAY, where she leads the database team in analysis on stories from mass killings to Medicare fraud to football coach contracts. Her team supports breaking news, investigative projects and data-driven interactives. She was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University and is a visiting scholar at Indiana University’s National Sports Journalism Center. Her team has won many U.S. and international awards for their work. Jodi was named the Knight Chair in Data and Explanatory Journalism at Syracuse University starting fall 2016.@jodiupton
Ted Gest||Ted Gest is president of Criminal Justice Journalists, a national organization that collaborates with the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice to run a website, thecrimereport.org, and a daily news digest. His "Understanding Crime and Justice Statistics" is being released at the IRE meeting. Gest previously was a reporter and editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and U.S. News & World Report. He is based in Washington, D.C.
Ben Poston|@bposton|Ben Poston is the assistant data editor at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to that, he was the data editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A native of Springfield, Ohio, he got his start at NICAR, where former database library director Jeff Porter held his hand and told him everything was going to be OK. @bposton
Rosalia Omungo||Rosalia Omungo is a television journalist and news editor for Kenya Broadcasting\u2028Corporation in Nairobi, where she leads Features, Health, environmental reporting -Your Health and Eco Watch segments. She was the first Earth Journalism Scholar at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2014. Her work has earned her local and international awards. She is chairperson of Kenya Environment and Science Journalists Association (KENSJA)
Ben Raines||Ben Raines has reported on investigations and natural wonders for AL.com for 16 years. He is a Coast Guard licensed captain and documentary filmmaker whose underwater video work has been seen on National Geographic TV, the Discovery Channel and PBS. A graduate of NYU's film program, he believes investigative reporters should be fully versed in both photography and video shooting and editing to maximize the power and reach of their reporting.
Mike Soraghan|@MikeSoraghan|Mike Soraghan is a reporter for EnergyWire, a publication of E&E Publishing, and the leading source of coverage about the transformation of American energy. He writes general assignment, enterprise and investigative stories, primarily on oil and gas drilling. Previously, he reported for The Hill newspaper and was a Washington correspondent for The Denver Post. @MikeSoraghan
Mark Schleifstein|@Mschleifstein|Mark Schleifstein is environment reporter for NOLA.com ! The Times-Picayune. His Katrina stories were among those winning 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for Public Service & Breaking News. Co-author of book "Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms." His 1996 series, "Oceans of Trouble: Are the World's Fisheries Doomed?", won 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He's on board of Society of Environmental Journalists. @Mschleifstein
Gina Barton|@writerbarton|Gina Barton is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s law enforcement investigative reporter, author of the book "Fatal Identity" and host of the "Unsolved" podcast. Barton, a graduate of Northwestern University, is also the winner of several national honors, including a George Polk Award, an IRE certificate and a Casey Medal. @writerbarton
Nikole Hannah-Jones||Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent the last four years investigating the way racial segregation in housing and schools is maintained through official action and policy. Her reporting has won the 2016 Peabody Award,the George Polk Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, and the Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting.
Sarah Hutchins|@sarhutch|Sarah Hutchins is responsible for producing and managing digital content for IRE's more than 5,000 members. She oversees the organization's website, social media accounts and multimedia. She also edits and produces the IRE Radio Podcast. Sarah came to IRE from The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, VA, where she covered law enforcement and K-12 education. @sarhutch
Bill Rankin||Bill Rankin: Senior legal affairs reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and reporter and narrator of the Breakdown podcast.
Sacha Pfeiffer|@SachaPfeiffer|Sacha Pfeiffer was on the Boston Globe Spotlight Team that won the 2003 Pulitzer for Public Service for its stories on clergy sex abuse. Pfeiffer has also hosted All Things Considered and Radio Boston at WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, where she won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for broadcast reporting, and guest-hosted NPR’s nationally syndicated On Point and Here & Now. She currently covers wealth, nonprofits and philanthropy for the Globe. Twitter: @SachaPfeiffer
Mike Rezendes|@MikeRezendes|Mike Rezendes is an investigative reporter for Boston Globe Spotlight Team. In 2003, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for revealing the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and is played by Mark Ruffalo in the Oscar-winning movie, “Spotlight.” In more than two decades with the Globe, Rezendes has investigated a wide array of additional topics, including the September 11 attacks, health care costs, prison suicides, and money in politics. @MikeRezendes.
Blye Faust|@byblye|Blye is an Oscar winning producer of “Spotlight” (directed by Tom McCarthy and starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber and Stanley Tucci) and has been named as one of Variety’s 10 Producers to Watch. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America and her board memberships include the Center for Investigative Reporting. Twitter: @byblye
Brian Ross|@brianross|Brian Ross is ABC News chief investigative correspondent, reporting for "World News with Diane Sawyer," "Nightline," "Good Morning America," "20/20," ABC News Radio and "The Blotter" on abcnews.com. Ross's work has been honored with the most prestigious awards in journalism, including six duPont Awards, six Peabody Awards, six Polk Awards, and more. This year, he won the Goldsmith Award from Harvard and the White House correspondents’ Association National award for his work with Matt Mosk and the Center for Public Integrity on miners being denied black lung benefits. @brianross
Josh Singer||No bio
Martin Baron||Marty Baron became executive editor of The Washington Post in 2013 after serving as the top editor of The Boston Globe and The Miami Herald. Under his leadership, those papers have won a combined 11 Pulitzer Prizes, including two for public service (NSA surveillance, at the Post, and Catholic Church coverup of clergy sex abuse, at the Globe, portrayed in the movie "Spotlight"). He also has held senior editing positions at The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
Walter Robinson||Walter V. Robinson led the Boston Globe Spotlight Team's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of the Catholic Church clergy sexual abuse scandal. He is now the Globe's Editor At Large. From 2007-2014, he was Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University. Robinson covered four presidential elections, two White Houses, the first Persian Gulf War and has reported from 33 countries and 48 states. He was also the Globe's city editor and metro editor.
Kimberly Kindy||National investigative reporter
Brad Schrade||Brad Schrade is an investigative reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 2015, he was part of a team of AJC/WSB-TV journalists that investigated police shootings across Georgia, a series honored with an IRE Innovation in Investigative Journalism award. At the Minneapolis Star Tribune, he was part of a team awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for a series on daycare safety breakdowns. He previously worked at The Tennessean in Nashville.
Ronal Serpas||Serpas is a Professor of Practice Criminology and Justice Loyola University New Orleans. He recently retired from a 34-year career in policing. From 2001-2014 he served as police chief in New Orleans, Nashville and chief of the Washington State Patrol. He is a Past Vice President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and Chair of the Community Policing Committee. Serpas is the Co-Chair of Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration.
Noah Pransky|@NoahPransky|Noah Pransky is an investigative reporter at WTSP-TV in Tampa Bay. He's won national duPont and Polk awards for investigative reporting and a national Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. Pransky started his career as a sports anchor/reporter and continues to cover sports business issues - including pro teams' endless pursuits of stadium subsidies – on his blog, Shadow of the Stadium. @NoahPransky
Brad Wolverton||Brad Wolverton is a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he covers college sports issues. His 2014 investigation into an academic cheating scheme that benefited hundreds of NCAA athletes won first prize for investigative work from the Education Writers Association. The association also honored his 2015 collaboration with the Huffington Post, which focused on the impact of rising student fees in Division I sports.
Mike Rispoli|@rispolimike|Mike directs Free Press’ campaigns to protect press freedom and oversees the community engagement project News Voices. He also teaches journalism as a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University. Mike previously worked as a journalist and for the human rights NGO's Privacy International and Access. Mike also served as the technical editor on the book "You: For Sale", a look at protecting user data and privacy online. Follow him on Twitter @rispolimike.
Brandi Collins|@BrandingBrandi|@BrandingBrandi currently oversees ColorOfChange's media, economic and environmental justice departments and campaign work. Specific areas include online privacy and surveillance; network neutrality; the gig economy; hate speech and rhetoric in mainstream media; and issues surrounding lead poisoning in public housing. Brandi has appeared in media outlets which include the Hill, the Daily Beast, Politico and on C-SPAN.
Steven Renderos|@stevenrenderos|Steven Renderos is the National Organizer at the Center for Media Justice where he leads its advocacy and organizing efforts. He is passionate about the role of media and communications in building movements for social change. He helped win campaigns that secured affordable phone calls for prisoners, strong Net Neutrality protections for Internet users and increased Internet access for low-income families. @stevenrenderos
Deborah Nelson|@Newshawks|Deborah Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and associate professor of investigative journalism at University of Maryland. She recently co-authored "Water's Edge," an award-winning, data-driven series by Reuters on the present-day impacts of rising sea levels. In the academic track, she’ll talk about a collaborative, low-cost model for doing student projects like The Brothel Next Door, an IRE award finalist. @Newshawks
Neil Reisner|@neilreisner|@neilreisner is a professor at Florida International University, where he teaches reporting, writing, database journalism and covering diverse communities. Prior to joining FIU, he was a reporter at the Miami Herald and the Bergen Record, among others, mostly covering government and politics. His investigative projects exposed corrupt officials, political machinations and unequal spending on urban education. He did a turn as IRE/NICAR training director in the late ‘90s.
Brandon Quester||Brandon Quester is the founder, executive director and editor of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. His multimedia and data journalism has focused on children living along the U.S.-Mexico Border, U.S. soldiers serving in Kuwait and Iraq, and the impact of immigration across Central America and the Caribbean. He currently focuses on statewide projects in Arizona, covering issues from elections and law enforcement to the regulation of hazardous materials.
Joe Walsh||Joe Walsh is a data scientist at The University of Chicago Center for Data Science and Public Policy and senior policy analyst for Community Technical Resources. He has had several years of experience helping academics, nonprofits, federal and state agencies, and companies of all sizes use quantitative tools to answer questions and make informed decisions about health care, transportation, education, and politics. He has a PhD in political science.
Evan Wyloge||Evan Wyloge covers Arizona, focusing on accountability and watchdog reporting, with an emphasis on data analysis. He earned a political science degree from Northern Arizona University in 2005 and a master’s degree in journalism in 2010. He’s passionate about investigative reporting that has real impact. Evan enjoys snowboarding and hanging out with his niece and nephew.
Justin Price|@justinjprice|Justin Price is a recent graduate of Arizona State University where he studied journalism and computer science. He combines the two areas in his work for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. @justinjprice
Kat Duffy|@rightsduff|Kat Duffy is the Labs Director at the Sunlight Foundation, where she guides the development of technological tools that make government and politics more accountable and transparent. @rightsduff
Jason Leopold||Jason Leopold is an Emmy nominated investigative reporter for VICE News where he covers national security. His aggressive use of the Freedom of Information Act includes suing the FBI and Department of Defense and forcing those agencies to changes its FOIA policies and filing the FOIA that forced the State Department to release Hillary Clinton's emails. He was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame by the Newseum Institute earlier this year.
Sarah Cohen||Sarah Cohen is president of IRE's board of directors. She runs the computer-assisted reporting team at The New York Times, focusing on original reporting for investigative and enterprise stories. She has shared in national investigative prizes including Pulitzer Prize, the Goldsmith Award and the IRE Medal. Cohen also served as the Knight Chair in computational journalism at Duke University and teaches at Columbia University's journalism school.
Brandon Smith|@muckrakery|With help from activist friends, journalist Brandon Smith won a lawsuit against the city of Chicago, forcing out the video of Laquan McDonald being killed by police. Brandon often uses FOIA in reporting for The Guardian, Chicago Reader, and In These Times magazine. He covers civil rights and justice issues in the areas of policing, tech and surveillance, health and environment, & public privatization. He's on Twitter at @muckrakery and always looking for worthwhile work.
Matt Topic||Matt Topic is a government transparency and media attorney in Chicago. He has handled well over 50 freedom of information act suits. His accomplishments include the release of the Laquan McDonald shooting video, records regarding use of stingray surveillance equipment, records that have helped to show a wrongful conviction, and many others. He frequently represents media organizations, non-profits, and independent journalists, and welcomes questions any time.
Brant Houston|@branthouston|Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois and was executive director of IRE for a decade. Before IRE, he was a reporter and database editor at U.S. metropolitan newspapers. He is author of "Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide," and co-author of "The Investigative Reporter's Handbook." He also is a co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and of the Institute for Nonprofit News. @branthouston
Laird Townsend||Laird Townsend, an award-winning freelance reporter and editor whose work has appeared in major national newspapers and magazines, is director of Project Word (www.projectword.org), a nonprofit that facilitates freelance investigative reporting. As a fiscally sponsored project of IRE, Project Word recently released results of its national survey of freelance investigative reporters. An initiative growing out of the survey’s recommendations will be announced this summer.
Esther Kaplan||Esther Kaplan is editor of The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, where projects she's overseen have received the Emmy, the National Magazine Award, the Polk Award, the Scripps Howard Award, and the IRE Medal. She was formerly on the editorial staff of The Nation, Poz, the national AIDS magazine, and The Village Voice. Her freelance reporting has won the Molly Prize, the Sidney Award and other honors.
Jane Sasseen||The executive director of the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Sasseen was previously the senior news editor and Washington bureau chief for BusinessWeek magazine, editor-in-chief of the politics channel at Yahoo News, and the Paris bureau chief for London-based International Management magazine. She is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award, the top prize for financial journalism in America.
Ricardo Sandoval-Palos||Ricardo Sandoval-Palos is an editor at National Public Radio, and an award-winning investigative journalist based in Washington, DC. He has led global projects for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. And, from 1997 to 2006, he was a Latin America correspondent for the Dallas Morning News and Knight Ridder Newspapers. Before that Ricardo was an investigative business reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Examiner.
Stephen Sapienza|@saptwit|The Pulitzer Center's Steve Sapienza, is an award-winning news and documentary producer who has covered a range of human security stories in dozens of countries, including HIV in Haiti’s prisons, child soldiers in Sierra Leone, climate refugees in Bangladesh, and landmines in Cambodia. For over 20 years he has shot and produced stories for television and online audiences, including the PBS NewsHour, New York Times, NPR, Financial Times, and Al Jazeera. @saptwit
Danielle Leigh|@DanielleLeighK5|Danielle Leigh is an anchor and investigative reporter for KING5 news in Seattle. Her reports have focused on government wrongdoing and consumer advocacy, leading to policy changes and other reforms. @DanielleLeighK5
Brendan Keefe||Brendan Keefe: Recipient of a 2015 Peabody Award and the 2014 National Investigative Murrow, Brendan is Chief Investigator for WXIA-11 in Atlanta. He works alone as a multi-skilled journalist and leads TEGNA's MSJ training program. Brendan's unique approach to visual storytelling has earned 55 regional Emmy awards. He exposed flaws in the nation's 911 system, caught lawmakers and lobbyists behind closed doors at ALEC, and two police departments shut down after his investigations.
Philip Drechsler||Philip Drechsler is an Investigative Producer at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. Drechsler is responsible for developing, editing, and occasionally shooting investigative and consumer stories. He previously worked at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati as an investigative producer/photographer/editor. Drechsler has won multiple national awards and regional Emmys.
Michael Bott|@TweetBott10|Michael Bott is a producer with NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit. He joined the team in June 2015 after spending two years as an investigative producer at Sacramento's ABC10. He broke into the business as an Assignment Editor. Michael has broken stories on the warrantless use of Stingray electronic surveillance equipment across California, the loss & theft of guns from law enforcement agencies, and the lights at the 49ers' Levi's Stadium blinding pilots. @TweetBott10
Stephen Stock|@stephenstocktv|For 34 years NBC Bay Area Senior Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock has covered everything from hurricanes to space shuttles, Ford truck fires to fracking, daycares to aviation, inmate tax scams to California’s water crisis. Among the awards he’s won are Peabody, duPont, national SPJ, 3 Murrow & 6 AP awards, plus 13 regional Emmys and a national Emmy nomination. His work prompted Congressional hearings & changed state law in both Florida & California. @stephenstocktv
Brian Collister||Brian Collister is an Emmy award-winning Investigative Reporter with the KXAN Investigative team specializing in uncovering fraud, corruption, and government waste. Brian’s investigations have resulted in the criminal convictions of public officials, passage of new laws and embezzled public funds being returned to taxpayers. He is also a licensed private investigator and a board member of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.
Joe Ellis||Joe Ellis is the investigative producer at KXAN in Austin, Texas. His investigative work has earned numerous regional and national awards including a 2016 IRE Award. Joe's work has also helped trigger numerous changes in law and government policy and resulted in dozens of criminal convictions. Joe also serves on the Board of Directors of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and the Legislative Newsroom Committee of the Texas Association of Broadcasters.
Chris Vanderveen|@chrisvanderveen|Chris Vanderveen has worked the last 13 years at KUSA-TV, one of the country's premier storytelling affiliates.   His unique style of writing has helped him become the recipient of numerous awards including a National Edward R. Murrow Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, five APTRA Awards and the 2012 NPPA Reporter of the Year Award.   He started his career in Casper, Wyoming, and spent a few years at KOAA-TV in Colorado Springs. @chrisvanderveen
Lowell Bergman||Lowell Bergman: Distinguished Chair in Investigative Reporting, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. Director, Investigative Reporting Program. 47 years in the business from the 'alternative press' to Rolling Stone; Founder, Center for Investigative Reporting [1977]; ABC News 1978 to 1983; CBS News 60 Minutes 1983 to 98; The New York Times 1998 to 2008 and PBS Frontline 1998 to 2014. Recipient the Pulitzer Prize, DuPonts, Peabodys and Emmys.
Monika Bauerlein||Monika Bauerlein is the CEO of Mother Jones; before that, she was co-editor with Clara Jeffery. Under their leadership, the magazine transformed itself from a 200-000 circulation print magazine to a digital-first news organization with an audience of 9 million and newsrooms in San Francisco, Washington DC, and New York. Bauerlein was sued personally, along with Mother Jones and reporter Stephanie Mencimer, by Frank VanderSloot, a major dark-money donor. MoJo prevailed.
Stephanie Grimes|@stephgrimes|Stephanie was formerly the deputy editor over features at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She was a vocal critic of apparent ethics violations at the paper following its sale in December to the family of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Prior to moving to Las Vegas, she was evening managing editor at KSL in Salt Lake City. Her background is in digital media and she's @stephgrimes on Twitter and Instagram.
Tim O'Brien|@TimOBrien|Timothy L. O'Brien is executive editor of Bloomberg View and Bloomberg Gadfly. He has been an editor and writer for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, HuffPost and Talk magazine. He edited a series on wounded war vets that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. He helped run a Times team that was a Pulitzer finalist for coverage of the 2008 financial crisis. He's also a Loeb Award recipient, and the author of three books. Donald Trump sued him and lost. @TimOBrien
Reg Chua|@reginaldchua|Reg Chua is Executive Editor, Editorial Operations, Data & Innovation at Reuters. Among other duties, he manages global newsroom operations, safety, logistics and budgets at Reuters. He helps manage data and computational journalism, oversees graphics, and works with corporate technology and R&D teams to develop newsroom systems and tools. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of the South China Morning Post; prior to that, he had a 16-year run at The Wall Street Journal. @reginaldchua
Jason Berry||In 1992 Jason Berry published a landmark book on clergy sex abuse, "Lead Us Not Into Temptation." His 2004 book with Gerald Renner "Vows of Silence" probed Pope John Paul's shielding of a notorious predator, Father Maciel. He produced an award-winning 2008 documentary based on the book. His 2011 investigation of church finances, "Render unto Rome," won IRE's Best Book Award. He lives in New Orleans and writes for many outlets. www.JasonBerryAuthor.com
Justin Elliott|@JustinElliott|Justin Elliott has been a reporter with ProPublica since 2012, where he has covered money in politics, the NSA, and the American Red Cross. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School. Elliott was previously a reporter at Salon and Talking Points Memo. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history and classics from Brown University. @JustinElliott
Laura Sullivan||Laura Sullivan is a NPR News investigative correspondent whose work has cast a light on some of the country's most disadvantaged people. Sullivan is one of NPR's most decorated journalists, with three Peabody Awards and two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Batons. She joined NPR in 2004 as a correspondent on the National Desk covering criminal justice and moved to the investigations unit when it was created in 2007.
Rick Young||Rick Young is an investigative producer working with FRONTLINE since the early 90’s. In 2009, he launched a partnership between FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. The venture’s most recent documentary, “Business of Disaster,” was a multi-platform collaboration with NPR. He was a JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 2007. Before turning to journalism, he spent six years as an investigator for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Irwin Redlener||No bio
Marcelo Rochabrun|@mrochabrun|Marcelo Rochabrun is a senior reporting fellow with ProPublica. He is a 2016 Livingston Award finalist and also won an IRE award this year for his reporting on Princeton's exclusive eating clubs while a reporter for The Daily Princetonian. @mrochabrun
Craig Flournoy||Dr. Craig Flournoy has been teaching at the University of Cincinnati since 2014. From 1979-2000, he was an investigative reporter at the Dallas Morning News. His work was honored with more than 50 state and national awards including the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. From 2002 to 2013, he taught journalism at Southern Methodist University. He believes in the credo of the late Robert Maynard that “journalism is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.”
Camri Nelson|@Mizfutureanchor|Camri Nelson is a senior at the University of Cincinnati. She is a journalism major and communication minor. Camri is the Secretary Chair of UC's SPJ, the Programming Director for UCABJ, and the Student President of The National Society of Leadership and Success. After graduation she plan's to become a reporter at news station and eventually have her own talk show. @Mizfutureanchor
Michael Lindenberger||Michael Lindenberger is a former Washington Correspondent for business at The Dallas Morning News, where he is now a editorial writer and member of the Editorial Board. He is a 2012-13 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford and a member of the IRE 2016 awards judging committee. Lindenberger is also a contributed to TIME.com, The New Republic and other publications.<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br/></span>
Katia Bachko|@katiabachko|Katia Bachko is the executive editor of the Atavist Magazine. Previously, she worked at the New Yorker and the Columbia Journalism Review. @katiabachko
Katie Townsend|@katie_rcfp|Katie Townsend is Litigation Director at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (www.rcfp.org), where she manages the litigation efforts of RCFP and its attorneys, and oversees its freedom of information activities. Prior to joining RCFP, Ms. Townsend was an attorney at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP, where she specialized in media and entertainment litigation. She is a 2007 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. @katie_rcfp
Lee van der Voo||Lee is an independent journalist focused on enterprise and investigative journalism and the author of the forthcoming book The Fish Market. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, High Country News, The Atlantic.com, Slate, CNN and been supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Fund for Environmental Journalism. She is a former Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow and a regular contributor to InvestigateWest.
Kristin Hussey|@kristinhussey1|Kristin Hussey is a freelance reporter who helps cover Connecticut for The New York Times. Having left reporting in 2001 for a mom gig, Kristin quit the PTA in a fit of pique and returned to journalism in 2007. Before the mom gig, she was on staff at WSJ.com, The (Annapolis, Md.) Capital and The (Boca Raton, Fla.) News. Feel free to say hello if you run into Kristin between sessions — she promises she will not ask you for a job. @kristinhussey1
Charlotte Huffman|@WFAAcharlotte|Charlotte Huffman is an investigative reporter for WFAA in Dallas, TX. She is most passionate about using open records laws and data analysis to uncover government waste and corruption. Several of her stories have resulted in new legislation. Most notably, "Poison in the Water" which exposed 2,000 water contamination sites and state regulators who failed to warn families their drinking water contained dangerous levels of cancer-causing chemicals. @WFAAcharlotte
Dianne Finch|@dmfinch|Dianne Finch teaches data mining &amp; visualization and other journalism courses at Elon University. She's currently developing an interactive website to accompany her book: Big Data in Small Slices -- slated for publication in December 2016. Dianne's data journalism work started with the AP in 2000 following her earlier career in programming and IT. She's covered science, health and finance for Bloomberg News, public radio and other organizations. @dmfinch
Ed Lowther|@edlowther|Ed Lowther is a data journalist on the BBC's Visual Journalism team, working mainly for the BBC news website. He previously worked on the BBC's politics coverage. He has integrated graphics, videos and interactive content to engage readers on subjects ranging from civilian casualties in Syria, to the impact of immigration along a London underground train line. @edlowther
Shane Shifflett|@shaneshifflett|Shane Shifflett is a journalist specializing in investigative reporting and data visualization. Before joining The Huffington Post in 2013 he worked with The Center for Investigative Reporting reporting on the dramatic delays in the VA’s processing of veterans’ injury claims. Shane is a proponent of open records and in 2013 received the James Madison Freedom of Information Award for his reporting on judicial conflicts of interest. @shaneshifflett
Cheryl Phillips|@cephillips|Cheryl Phillips teaches data journalism at Stanford University. She worked at The Seattle Times from 2002-14 as a reporter and editor, focusing on data journalism and investigations. In Seattle, she worked on breaking news stories in 2009 and 2014, each of which received a Pulitzer. She also was twice part of teams that were Pulitzer finalists. She has worked at USA Today, in Michigan, Montana and Texas. She is a former IRE board president. @cephillips
R.G. Dunlop|@rgdunlopjr|R.G. Dunlop: Investigative Reporting (part of Louisville Public Media) since KyCIR's inception in June 2013. Before that, worked as a reporter and editor at The Courier-Journal in Louisville. @rgdunlopjr
Topher Sanders|@reportertopher|Topher Sanders is a reporter covering racial inequality for ProPublica. He has been with ProPublica since August 2015. Prior to ProPublica Sanders was a reporter at The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Florida, from 2008 to 2015. There he covered education and city government and was named to the paper's investigative team in 2013.@reportertopher
Maya Lau|@mayalau|Maya Lau is a reporter at The Advocate, Louisiana's largest daily newspaper, where she covers crime and criminal justice. Previously, she reported for The Shreveport Times. She began as a news assistant at The New York Times Magazine after serving in the Peace Corps in Senegal. Maya graduated from Vassar College. Originally from San Diego, Maya is now based in Baton Rouge, where The Advocate is headquartered. Geaux Tigers. Twitter: @mayalau Website: mayalau.com
Scott Allen||Scott Allen is the editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team, an award-winning six-reporter team that specializes in long term investigations. Its recent work has exposed surgeons who perform two operations at once and widespread sexual abuse at New England prep schools. Allen previously served as the Globe’s health and science editor and its environmental reporter. He was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT in 1997-98.
Michael Siconolfi||Mike Siconolfi is Investigations Editor at The Wall Street Journal, leading a team of investigative reporters and working closely with other senior editors worldwide. He has held a number of reporting and editing roles at the Journal since 1984, specializing in the finance area, leading coverage that has won multiple Polk and Scripps Howard awards. Mike co-led the Journal's "Medicare Unmasked" coverage, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2015, along with a Gerald Loeb Award and an IRE Freedom of Information Award. He has won three Gerald Loeb awards, two as a reporter and one for career editing achievement.
Chris Davis||Chris Davis is deputy managing editor of investigations and data at the Tampa Bay Times. As an I-team editor, he has led multiple Pulitzer Prize winning investigations.
David Fallis|@davidsfallis|David Fallis is the Deputy Editor for the Washington Post’s Investigations Unit. In 2015, he helped lead and edit a team of Post journalists in an examination of fatal shootings by police, a project which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and a Polk Award. He has investigated topics ranging from conflicts of interest in Congress to the deaths of children in unregulated daycares. He joined The Post in 1999. @davidsfallis
Chris Moeser||Chris Moeser is associate general counsel at TEGNA Inc. Before joining TEGNA, he practiced media law in Phoenix, where he represented journalists on a variety of matters. He also worked as a reporter at The Phoenix Gazette and The Arizona Republic, where he covered the crime, city government and state politics beats. He holds a law degree from the University of Arizona, and undergraduate degrees from the University of Kansas in political science and journalism.
Kevin Keeshan||Kevin Keeshan is Senior Vice President of News Content and Standards for the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations. In this role, Keeshan is responsible for ensuring that the company’s high standards for news gathering and reporting are applied consistently across the local stations NBCUniversal owns. Additionally, he works closely with the stations on their investigative and consumer reporting efforts.
Laura Lee Prather||Ms. Prather, partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP, focuses on First Amendment, intellectual property and media/entertainment litigation and appeals. She has significant government relations experience as an advocate at the Texas Legislature on First Amendment and open government concerns. She advises an extensive array of content providers: online and traditional newspapers, magazines, radio/broadcasters, television stations, production companies and music/sports entities.
Mary Ellen Roy||Mary Ellen Roy is a partner in Phelps Dunbar LLP in New Orleans. She represents news organizations in media law matters. Mary Ellen is in Best Lawyers in America, Litigation - First Amendment and Intellectual Property and Super Lawyers, Communications, Intellectual Property and Business Litigation. She is co-author of Media Law Resource Center’s Media Privacy Law for Louisiana. Mary Ellen received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1984.
Jodie Fleischer|@jodiewsb|Jodie is an investigative reporter at WSB-TV in Atlanta who specializes in government waste and public corruption. Her work includes a police shooting series which led to a law change, a house stealing series which led to 12 arrests and FBI recognition, exposure of fraud at a drug rehab that led to its closure, and a corruption series that led to arrests of local officials. She’s been honored with an IRE Award, a duPont Award, 5 regional Murrows and 12 Emmy’s. @jodiewsb
Chris Nakamoto|@ChrisNakamotoWBRZ|Chris Nakamoto, 5pm Anchor/Chief Investigator at WBRZ-TV. @ChrisNakamotoWBRZ
Rick Yarborough|@ricknbc|Rick Yarborough is the Senior Investigative Producer for the NEWS4 I-Team at WRC in Washington, DC. He’s been honored with national awards, including a George Foster Peabody, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University, a Gerald Loeb Award, Scripps Howard Foundation &amp; National Headliners, along with multiple regional Emmys and Murrows. Rick's “Serving in Silence” series, about rape inside the National Guard, recently won a Murrow for investigative reporting. @ricknbc
Christine Zhang|@christinezhang|Christine Zhang is a 2016 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow based at the Los Angeles Times Data Desk. She believes that open data can empower journalists to uncover new stories and inspire audiences to explore their own questions. Prior to the Los Angeles Times, Christine was an analyst at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where she published research about the global economy and international development. @christinezhang
Ryan Menezes|@ryanvmenezes|Ryan Menezes conducts analyses for the Los Angeles Times Data Desk while writing about a multitude of topics. Ryan studied statistics at UCLA, where he also wrote editorials and covered various sports for the student newspaper in between games of pick-up basketball. @ryanvmenezes
Christopher Drew|@nytdrew|Christopher Drew was one of the New York Times reporters who won a 2015 George Polk Award for revealing how the Navy’s SEAL teams have become a global man-hunting machine with little outside oversight. He is a co-author of “Blind Man’s Bluff,” a best-selling book about submarine spying, and has taught an investigative reporting class with Walt Bogdanich at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism for nine years. Twitter: @nytdrew
Tony Capaccio|@acapaccio|Tony Capaccio has covered defense issues, including budgets, weapons and investigations, since 1986, first as reporter and then deputy editor of Defense Week in Washington. He has covered the Pentagon for Bloomberg News since December 1997 and previously worked for investigative columnist Jack Anderson from 1977-1986. Capaccio joined IRE in the late 1970s. He currently covers major defense programs like the DoD's F-35 jet and Navy Littoral Combat Ship. @acapaccio
Thomas Brennan||Thomas Brennan is the founder of The War Horse. His passion in writing is exploring war, trauma, and loss. Prior to studying at Columbia University, he was a sergeant in the Marine Corps Infantry and served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was awarded a Purple Heart and is the recipient of the '14 American Legion Fourth Estate Award and an Honorable Mention at the '13 Dart Awards for his reporting with both the New York Times and The Daily News in Jacksonville, N.C.
Christopher Mitchell|@communitynets|Christopher Mitchell is the Director of the Community Broadband Networks program at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. ILSR runs MuniNetworks.org, the comprehensive clearinghouse of information about local government strategies for improving Internet access, particularly how to build publicly owned networks. Mitchell is also the Policy Director for Next Century Cities. Contact him @communitynets
Matthew Rantanen|@mrrdesign|Matthew R. Rantanen(Cree,Finnish&amp;Norwegian) Dir of Tech,SoCal Tribal Chairmen's Assoc 6yr Chair, Native Public Media Tribal tech dev:network design•US tech policy 2 term FCC Native Nations Broadband(Bb) Task Force, Co-chair, NCAI Tech&amp;Telecom Subcomm &amp;Tech TaskForce Board, ASU’s, American Indian Policy Institute Tribal Advisory Comm, Cal Bb Council &amp; Cal Office of Emergency Svcs. “Advocate for Net-Neutrality” “Tribal Priority for Spectrum over Tribal Lands.” @mrrdesign
Michael Scurato|@MichaelScurato|Mr. Scurato is the Vice President of Policy at the National Hispanic Media Coalition. At NHMC, he has worked on a host of media and telecommunications issues including media ownership, broadband access and adoption, preserving an open Internet, spectrum policy, and hate speech.. He has represented NHMC before Congress and the Federal Communications Commission and currently serves on the FCC's Consumer Advisory Committee. @MichaelScurato
Mark Nichols|@nicholsmarkc|Mark Nichols is data journalist on the national desk of USA TODAY. He has worked as a data specialist for the digital reporting team at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati, OH, and was the computer-assisted reporting coordinator for The Indianapolis Star for nearly 20 years. @nicholsmarkc
Russ Ptacek||Ptacek combines data analysis, FOIA’s, and social media as primary tools in uncovering wrongs in Washington, DC. His reports spark federal reforms, Congressional testimony, &amp; regional change within the District and surrounding states as agencies launch initiatives to solve issues exposed by his investigations. In addition to government, racism, and corruption, Ptacek is known for launching a mobile database as a key digital platform for his restaurant franchise.
Katy Stech||Katy Stech has covered bankruptcy for The Wall Street Journal since 2011, focusing on small business issues, struggling municipalities and U.S. Bankruptcy Code reforms. Her stories have illuminated the intersection of student loans and bankruptcy. A Syracuse grad, she has worked for newspapers in Charleston, S.C., Rochester, N.Y., and her hometown of Duluth, Minn.
Rob Barry|@rob_barry|Rob Barry is a reporter and data nerd at The Wall Street Journal. Recently, he worked on stories about police shootings, stockbrokers, Medicare fraud and insider trading. Previously, Rob was at The Miami Herald, where he worked on several investigative projects and was significantly more likely to be wearing flip-flops. @rob_barry
Crina Boros|@CrinaBoros|Award-winning, London-based investigative Journalist and CAR trainer, Crina specialises in data analysis and FOIA for cross-border and accountability-driven reporting. She has published with the BBC, Thomson Reuters, The Sunday Times, Greenpeace &amp; OffshoreAlert among many. She has written about fishing industry cartels, compensation for war victims, women's rights, lobby and state aid funds flowing offshore. Crina trains CAR across Europe. @CrinaBoros
Steven Rich|@dataeditor|Steven Rich is the database editor for investigations at The Washington Post. He's worked on investigations probing the National Security Agency, tax lien sales, asset forfeiture, police shootings and college athletics. He has been a reporter on two teams awarded Pulitzer Prizes, in 2014 for Public Service and in 2016 for National Reporting. Steven is a graduate of Mizzou and Virginia Tech. He was elected to IRE’s Board of Directors in 2015. @dataeditor
Chrys Wu|@MacDiva|Over the course of an intrepid career, Chrys Wu, a.k.a. MacDiva, has been a journalist, strategist, coder and consigliere to news media, tech companies, non-profits and foundations, including The Los Angeles Times, NPR and its affiliates, DataKind, The Knight Foundation and The Gates Foundation. She works at the intersection of communication, design and technology, solving problems for people at scale. Currently, she is developer advocate at The New York Times. @MacDiva
Mar Cabra||Mar Cabra is a multimedia investigative reporter from Spain, member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Her award-winning work has revealed the systematic use of tax havens, misuse of EU fishing subsidies, overfishing in the South Pacific, exposed the lucrative trade of body parts and the overmedication of foster children in the US. She also teaches data journalism in two master degrees and coordinates monthly workshops in the topic in Madrid.
Joachim Dyfvermark||No bio
Cindy Galli|@mustangalli|Cindy Galli is Senior Investigative Producer for the ABC News Investigative Unit in New York. She specializes in consumer investigations and also heads up collaborative projects between ABC and network affiliates around the country. She got her start at KGO-TV in San Francisco and her consumer reporting over 23 years has garnered regional and national awards. Cindy has been an IRE member since 1994 and you can find her on Twitter at @mustangalli.
Dina Gusovsky|@DinaGusovsky|Dina Gusovsky is an award-winning Producer/Reporter at CNBC &amp; CNBC.com. She was the winner of the 2015 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in National Investigative Journalism and has won several other awards including a Cablefax, and she was part of the investigative team that won a George Polk Award for Business Reporting on Luxembourg tax havens. Prior to CNBC, Dina was a Reporter, Producer, and Writer at Bloomberg. @DinaGusovsky
Scott Zamost||CNN Senior Investigative Producer Scott Zamost has spoken at IRE for the past 15 years. A two-time IRE award winner, he has also spoken at investigative reporting conferences in Brazil and Norway. His awards include three national Emmy nominations, 23 regional Emmys, five Murrows, an Alfred I. dupont-Columbia finalist, two first place National Headliner awards and three NY Festivals gold medals. His investigations have ranged from government fraud to war crimes.
Cindy Lott||Cindy M. Lott serves as Interim Academic Director for Nonprofit Management Programs at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, where she also teaches at the graduate level. She is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at Urban Institute. Lott was the Executive Director for the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School and the Charities Regulation and Oversight Project. Lott is a 1993 graduate of Yale Law School.
Sarah Butrymowicz|@sarahbutro|Sarah Butrymowicz is the data editor for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news outlet that covers innovation and inequality in education. After receiving an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she first spent four years as a staff writer at Hechinger before falling in love with spreadsheets and statistics. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, as well as on websites such as Time and The Atlantic. @sarahbutro
John Ferrugia|@johnferrugia|John Ferrugia: Honored with IRE, Peabody (x3), duPont-Columbia, National Murrow, Headliner (Grand), Missouri Honor Medal, and many regional Emmys. Major investigation subjects: Child Welfare system/deaths, Mental Health abuse/deaths, Military sex assaults, state traffic laws, govt. spending, school and mass shootings. Recently moved to Rocky Mountain PBS, in Denver-anchor/managing editor- to build a team (after 24 yrs at KMGH-TV). Former CBS News. @johnferrugia
Clark Fouraker||Clark Fouraker is an Investigative Reporter at First Coast News, the NBC/ABC duopoly in Jacksonville, FL. For a year, Clark reported on failures within the child welfare system in South Carolina while working at WLTX-TV. Now in Florida, Clark is investigating guns in local schools. He's found a system of fudged stats and failing transparency. Clark was awarded a 2015 Columbia DuPont Silver Baton for excellence in journalism.
Ziva Branstetter||Ziva Branstetter is the editor-in-chief of The Frontier, an investigative news website based in Tulsa. She is a board member of IRE and chairman of IRE's contest committee. She and reporting partner Cary Aspinwall were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting in 2015 for their coverage of a botched execution. The Frontier has partnered with state and national media outlets on projects including The Marshall Project's "Next To Die" death penalty project.
Colby Goodman|@cogoodman|Colby Goodman is the Director of the Center for International Policy’s Security Assistance Monitor program, which seeks to enhance transparency and oversight of U.S. foreign security assistance. Mr. Goodman overseas the program’s efforts to provide the most comprehensive picture of U.S. military and police aid and U.S. arms sales around the world. He also leads and supports research on key U.S. security assistance policy issues and challenges. @cogoodman
Norberto Santana Jr.||Norberto Santana Jr. is publisher of the Voice of OC, an award-winning, online, non-profit investigative news agency covering local government and politics in Orange County, California. Santana has covered the U.S. Congress with Congressional Quarterly and spent the last few decades reporting on local governments across Southern California as an investigative reporter with the Orange County Register, the San Diego Union Tribune and the San Bernardino County Sun.
Elizabeth Hoekenga|@ehoekenga|Elizabeth Hoekenga is a senior managing producer for AL.com, overseeing two content teams: social media and life and culture. She's worked in journalism for 10 years. Twitter: @ehoekenga
Connor Sheets||Connor Sheets is a statewide investigative reporter at AL.com in Birmingham, Alabama. He covers a wide range of issues, from the heroin scourge sweeping the state to the lives of transgender Alabamians.Connor's journalism has appeared in publications including Newsweek, The Washington Post, Salon and The Baltimore Sun. He previously wrote for multiple publications in New York, and he has reported from countries including Nigeria, Poland, Japan and China.
Diana Samuels|@dzsamuels|Diana Samuels is a news reporter with NOLA.com ! The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, La. She covers general community news in the New Orleans area, and is currently working on two special projects: exploring the lives of girls in the South, and recognizing New Orleans' "everyday heroes." Twitter: @dzsamuels
Dave Maass|@maassive|Dave Maass is an investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, focusing on transparency, law enforcement, and free speech issues. Prior to joining EFF, he was an award-winning news writer for altweeklies across the Southwest. @maassive
Jeremy Gillula|@the_zeroth_law|Dr. Jeremy Gillula is a Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation where he focuses on a wide variety of tech policy topics including net neutrality, big data, mobile privacy, and privacy issues associated with drones and autonomous vehicles. He has a BS in computer science from Caltech and a MS and PhD in computer science from Stanford University, where his research focused on robotics and AI. @the_zeroth_law
Cora Currier|@coracurrier|Cora Currier is a reporter with The Intercept, where she focuses on national security. She previously worked at ProPublica and The New Yorker. @coracurrier
Yael Grauer|@yaelwrites|Yael Grauer is an independent journalist covering mass surveillance, software vulnerabilities, security breaches, and the erosion of civil liberties. @yaelwrites
Garance Burke|@garanceburke|Garance Burke is a national investigative reporter at The Associated Press, where she specializes in data-driven accountability projects. Her work has received accolades including SPJ's Sigma Delta Chi investigative reporting award, a national Edward R. Murrow award and top honors from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. @garanceburke
Ron Nixon||Ron Nixon is a Washington correspondent for the New York Times who covers regulatory policy, which includes coverage of the Department of Agriculture, the FDA, the TSA, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, USAID, the CDC, the Postal Service and Amtrak, along with the various congressional panels with oversight of these agencies.
Dakin Campbell||Dakin Campbell writes about Wall Street for Bloomberg News, which he joined in 2008. Dakin got his start in financial journalism covering public finance for The Bond Buyer newspaper. He started at the paper after graduating from Columbia University's journalism school and undertaking a three-month investigative reporting fellowship. He has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He's married, with an eight-month old daughter.
Michael Grabell|@MichaelGrabell|Michael Grabell covers economic and labor issues for ProPublica. He has produced stories for the New York Times, Vice, NPR and Time. His investigative work has included stories on workers' comp, temp labor, the TSA, Lance Armstrong, bus safety and toxic chemicals. Grabell previously worked at The Dallas Morning News. He is the author of "Money Well Spent?," a book about President Obama’s stimulus package and the Great Recession. @MichaelGrabell
Pat Beall|@beall1|An investigative reporter with The Palm Beach Post, Pat Beall has most recently written on abuses in privatized prisons; police shootings and fraud in the addiction treatment industry. She is the co-winner of the 2016 Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting; the 2015 Barlett &amp; Steele Bronze Medalist for investigative business reporting; a 2014 and 2015 IRE finalist and winner of the 2014 Hillman Prize. @beall1
Will Sutton|@willsutton|Sutton is a veteran journalist with more than 30 years of experience. A former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, he worked for Gannett's Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, NJ; Knight Ridder's Philadelphia Inquirer and the Post-Tribune in Gary, IN, and McClatchy's The News &amp; Observer in Raleigh. He teaches journalism at Grambling State University and directs the Dow Jones News Fund's business reporting residency at New York University. @willsutton
Daniel Connolly|@danielconnolly|Daniel Connolly is the author of The Book of Isaias, a narrative nonfiction work that follows several years in the lives of children of Mexican immigrants growing up in Memphis, Tennessee. The book will be published October 4 by St. Martin’s Press of New York. Connolly also covers the town of Collierville for The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis. Visit danielconnolly.net. @danielconnolly
Lauren Grandestaff|@lgrandestaff|As director of IRE's resource center, Lauren manages the annual IRE and Philip Meyer contests, maintains the ever-growing investigative stories library and tipsheet database, coordinates efforts for new and updated versions of IRE's beat book series, and offers research and backgrounding help to IRE's more than 5,000 members. Lauren also manages accounts and provides first level support to DocumentCloud users. In her spare time, she is working on her master's in library science. Before coming to IRE, Lauren worked at the Missouri School of Journalism Library and the Columbia Missourian Newspaper Library. @lgrandestaff
Jesse Patel|@workfllowy|Jesse is co-creator of WorkFlowy.com, a simple but incredibly powerful tool for organizing tons of information. Journalists and authors use it to manage mountains of notes during research, outline the story, and sometimes even to write the final piece. Jesse is interested in helping journalists get the most out of WorkFlowy, so If you'd like a personal walk through of the tool, email him to set up a time: jesse@workfllowy.com @jessep
Daniel Hom|@danieldothom|Daniel Hom is a Data Analyst tasked to find data that tell great stories, primarily in the financial and tech industries. His role is to champion Tableau Public by creating visualizations for the web and cultivating a community of users to do the same. He has a multimedia journalism background and loves talking to others who dream of numbers and stories at night. @danieldothom
Dash Davidson|@dashdavidson|Tableau Public team member and recent Stanford University graduate Dash Davidson specializes in sports analytics and sports data journalism.  Dash has a background in baseball player performance predictions, having co-developed the popular Steamer Projections algorithm. He has also travelled around the country, presenting Tableau at conferences and universities, training reporters in newsrooms and participating in panel discussions on his topic of focus. Drop him a line on Twitter @dashdavidson or send him an email at ddavidson@tableausoftware.com if you’re interested in working together.
Michelle Holmes|@mlh_holmes|Michelle Holmes is the Vice President of Content at Alabama Media Group, which runs AL.com, The Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and (Mobile) Press-Register. She is a former JSK Fellow at Stanford, and a member of the National Journalism Advisory Board at the Center for Collaborative Journalism. @mlh_holmes
Robert Benincasa|@RobertBenincasa|Robert Benincasa does computer-assisted reporting for NPR News in Washington, DC. Most recently, he worked on the team that won a 2014 IRE Award for investigating delinquent coal mines and contributed to an NPR series on injured nurses. Prior to joining NPR in 2008, he was database editor at Gannett News Service. Benincasa also serves on the journalism faculty of Georgetown University. @RobertBenincasa
Shawn McIntosh|@shawnmcintosh|Shawn McIntosh is deputy managing editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, overseeing investigative reporting and data journalism. A career-long member of IRE, she credits the training and camaraderie offered here for any success she has had. She has previously been top editor in Jackson, Miss., and worked in investigative roles at The Dallas Morning News and USA TODAY. @shawnmcintosh and @AJCInvestigate.
David Armstrong|@GNLarmstrong|David Armstrong is the director of The Georgia News Lab, an award winning investigative reporting collaborative. He was formerly the director of The News Enterprise, an investigative reporting project at Emory University. Armstrong is a veteran investigative reporter and editor. He served as bureau chief of the National Security News Service in Washington, D.C. and earlier as editor of the Texas Observer. @GNLarmstrong or @GeorgiaNewsLab
Dee J. Hall||Dee J. Hall is co-founder and managing editor of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. Hall was at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison for 24 years as an editor and reporter focusing on projects. Before that, Hall reported for eight years at The Arizona Republic. Hall received more than three dozen awards, including for the 2001 State Journal investigation that uncovered a $4 million-a-year illegal campaign machine operated by Wisconsin’s top lawmakers.
Karl Idsvoog||Investigative reporter/producer Karl Idsvoog is a highly versatile multimedia trainer/consultant/educator who has completed highly successful media development/training missions in Syria, Botswana, Kenya, Tunisia, Egypt, Republic of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Cambodia &amp; Myanmar. Idsvoog teaches a range of journalism courses at Kent State University. http://www.whenjournalismfails.com http://www.presidentialfooball.com<br/><!--EndFragment-->
Gary Putka||Gary Putka is Executive Editor of The Eye, published by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. He has been a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News. Reporters he managed won or shared in four Pulitzer Prizes at The Journal, including coverage of legacy and donor preferences in college admissions.
Lawan Hamilton||Lawan Hamilton is the Executive Producer, National Investigations at the Scripps National Bureau, in Washington, DC. She leads the Bureau’s Peabody Award winning team of investigative journalists producing national investigations. She joined Scripps in 2003 as C.A.R. producer at KNXV in Phoenix, AZ. She headed the KSHB investigative team in Kansas City, MO. She worked as Data Projects Manager at Scripps headquarters in Ohio. She is a former board member of IRE.
David Boardman||David Boardman is Dean of the School of Media and Communication at Temple University in Philadelphia, one of the largest and most comprehensive programs of its kind in the world. Previously, he was Executive Editor of The Seattle Times, which won four Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership. He is former president of IRE and serves on the boards of the Institute for Journalism in New Media, the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Robert Rosenthal|@rosey18|Robert Rosenthal: Executive Director, The Center for Investigative Reporting, newspaper days at The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Francisco Chronicle...copy boy, reporter, foreign correspondent, investigative reporter,foreign editor, city editor, Executive Editor. Helped build CIR and proud of helping make the Chauncey Bailey Project a success.@rosey18
Stephen Engelberg|@SteveEngelberg|Stephen Engelberg is the editor in chief of ProPublica. Before joining the non-profit newsroom, he was a reporter at The New York Times and the founding editor of the paper's investigations unit. He was also a managing editor at The Oregonian in Portland. @SteveEngelberg
Howard Berkes|@hberkes|Howard Berkes is a three-decade veteran of NPR. Since 2010, Berkes has focused on investigative projects, beginning with the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster, and then mine and workplace safety, the failure to enforce mine safety penalties, the resurgence of the coal miners disease black lung and weak enforcement of grain bin safety. His latest project with Michael Grabell of ProPublica exposed changes in workers' compensation laws that made benefits elusive. @hberkes
Jeremy Schwartz|@jinatx|Jeremy Schwartz is a member of the Austin American-Statesman's investigative team and focuses on military and border issues. He served as Cox News correspondent in Mexico City from 2005 to 2009. He previously worked at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Imperial Valley Press and the Daily Journal in Caracas, Venezuela. Schwartz won a 2015 Military Reporters and Editors Assn. first place award for a story about a failed VA brain research program. @jinatx
David Heath|@davidhth|David Heath: Senior reporter most recently at the Center for Public Integrity. Previously The Seattle Times. Covered the environment, scientific integrity, health care and business. Work has appeared on CBS News, PBS Frontline and NewsHour and Reveal public radio as well as in TheAtlantic.com, Time.com, Daily Beast, Huffington Post and MotherJones.com. Awards include Goldsmith, Polk and Loeb. Three-time Pulitzer finalist. Past Nieman fellow. @davidhth.
David Herzog||David Herzog is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he teaches data journalism and serves as the NICAR academic adviser. He’s the author of Data Literacy: A User’s Guide (SAGE Publications, 2015) and is helping launch an online M.S. degree in Data Science and Analytics at the University of Missouri. Before teaching, he had nearly 15 years of reporting experience at The Providence Journal, The Baltimore Sun and The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa.
Jennifer LaFleur|@j_la28|Jennifer LaFleur is a senior editor at Reveal and The Center for Investigative Reporting. Previously, she was the director of computer-assisted reporting at ProPublica and has held similar roles at The Dallas Morning News, the San Jose Mercury News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She is a former IRE training director and has won awards for her coverage of disability, legal and open government issues. @j_la28
David Ho|@DavidHo|David Ho is executive mobile editor at The Wall Street Journal. He directs mobile news operations and product strategy and is a key architect of the Journal's new mobile-focused newsroom. Ho is the world's most experienced mobile and tablet news app editor. Equal parts hardcore newsman and lifelong technologist, Ho has trained more than 3,000 journalists around the world to embrace mobile and use apps in their work. @DavidHo
David Schertler||David Schertler is a former federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice, who has been in private practice in Washington, D.C. for 20 years specializing in white collar criminal defense of all types.
Karen Williams||Karen Williams is a counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &amp; Feld LLP. Karen's practice focuses on litigation and has involved the intersection of national security and journalism. Before attending law school, Karen spent four years at The Charlotte Observer as a news designer.
Mark MacDougall||Mark MacDougall is a former federal prosecutor whose practice is focused on white collar criminal defense. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Mark's clients include CIA personnel, journalists, foreign governments, senior public officials and military officers. His pro bono trial work representing defendants facing the death penalty has been recognized with the ABA's John Paul Stevens Award, the NAACP Foot Soldier Award and the NLADA Exemplar Award.
Michael Isikoff|@isikoff|Michael Isikoff is Yahoo News chief investigative correspondent. @isikoff
Denise Roth Barber||Denise has served as managing director of NIMSP since 2010, after four years as research director and seven years as researcher. Denise oversees the management of the data acquisition, research, IT and communications departments. Denise also writes occasional reports on special and timely topics. Denise provides input on the scope and timelines of proposed projects and other management planning issues to ensure the Institute's goals and objectives are met.
Melissa Yeager|@melissayeagr|Melissa Yeager is a senior staff writer for the Sunlight Foundation covering Open Government, Open Data, Transparency, Campaigns and Money in Politics. @melissayeagr
Denise Malan|@DeniseMalan|Denise Malan was a newspaper journalist for more than 10 years, covering government, education, politics, the environment and enterprise stories on a variety of subjects. She was data/investigative editor at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in Texas, and in June 2013 she joined IRE and the Institute for Nonprofit News, working on data projects with nonprofit newsrooms around the country. She now coordinates training and consults on data projects for INN. @DeniseMalan
David Washburn||No bio
DeRay Mckesson||DeRay Mckesson is a civil rights activist focused on issues of innovation, equity &amp; justice. Co-founder of the Protestor Newsletter &amp; Campaign Zero, he has worked to connect individuals with knowledge &amp; to provide citizens &amp; policy makers with policies to end police violence. Spurred by the death of Mike Brown &amp; the subsequent protests in Ferguson, he has become a leading voice in the effort to confront the systems &amp; structures that have led to the mass incarceration &amp; police killings of black &amp; other minority populations.
Oliver Laughland|@oliverlaughland|Oliver Laughland is a senior reporter for Guardian US. He is one of the reporting team on The Counted, the Guardian's nationwide investigation into policing and lethal force. He was previously a reporter for the Guardian in Australia, where his work on immigration won multiple awards. @oliverlaughland
Errin Haines Whack|@emarvelous|Errin Haines Whack is an award-winning reporter covering urban affairs for The Associated Press. Errin writes on the intersection of race, politics and policy, and some of her recent work has focused on urban violence, criminal justice reform and inequality in higher education. She previously worked for The Washington Post, The Orlando Sentinel and The Los Angeles Times. An Atlanta native, she is currently based in Philadelphia. @emarvelous.
Wesley Lowery|@WesleyLowery|Wesley Lowery is a national reporter covering law enforcement policy for the Washington Post. He previously covered national politics for The Post, and local politics and spot news for the Boston Globe. @WesleyLowery
Steve Beatty|@BeattyLensNola|Beatty is the editor of The Lens (TheLensNola.org), an online newsroom providing public-interest reporting on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, now in its seventh year. Previously, he ran a watchdog reporting team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and was an editor at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans for 15 years. He hails from Akron, Ohio, and earned a journalism degree from Kent State University. @BeattyLensNola
Neena Satija|@texastribune|Neena Satija is an investigative reporter and radio producer for the Texas Tribune and Reveal. Before her current gig, she was the Tribune's environment reporter and remains obsessed with hurricanes that have not yet happened but definitely will. She's also reported for National Public Radio, PRI's The World, Connecticut Public Radio, the Connecticut Mirror, and the New Haven Independent. Find her at nsatija@texastribune.org or @neenareports.
Don Vappie||Don Vappie, New Orleans musician/entertainer, is the number one New Orleans Jazz banjoist performing on the planet today. Easily considered one of the best banjoist in the history of New Orleans, he's been a headliner at festivals and concert halls around the world including Carnegie Hall in New York City. Honoring the tradition of his predecessor, banjoist/guitarist Danny barker, Don has kept alive creole songs of New Orleans &amp; has been honored with awards from the Creole Heritage Society &amp; the Louisiana Creole Research Association for preserving this cultural treasure.
Doug Haddix||Doug Haddix is director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio State University. Previously, he worked as national training director for IRE and as projects editor at The Columbus Dispatch, where he directed investigations and computer-assisted reporting. Before that, he worked at UPI-Indianapolis and for newspapers in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Mark Lagerkvist||Mark Lagerkvist has raised hell as an investigative reporter for 40 years. His work for CNBC, News 12 Networks, Asbury Park Press, WFLA of Tampa and WZZM of Grand Rapids won more than 60 honors, including national awards from IRE, National Press Club and Scripps-Howard. Lagerkvist’s reports on Gov. Chris Christie for New Jersey Watchdog and NJ Spotlight gained nationwide attention and earned two New York Press Club awards.
Duane Pohlman||After airing hundreds of highly acclaimed investigative reports at some of the best TV stations in the country, Duane Pohlman found his way home as the 5pm anchor and lead investigative reporter at NBC4-Columbus (Ohio). Pohlman is a former Vice President of IRE's Board of Directors and is Board President of Ohio's center for Investigative Journalism, a non-profit news start-up. He has received more than 125 top awards and was just named Ohio's Journalist of the Year.
Michael Sallah||Michael Sallah is a Miami Herald investigations editor/reporter who has supervised or reported on some of the newspaper's most ambitious projects, including stories on public corruption and costly government blunders. As a reporter, he won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, and was a Pulitzer finalist twice, in 2012 and again in 2016. As an editor, he supervised a project on public housing corruption that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.
Duff Wilson|@duffwilson|Duff Wilson is an investigative reporter with Reuters and previously The New York Times and the Seattle Times. He's been honored with many national awards including two Goldsmiths and two Polks and was three times a Pulitzer finalist. Duff also teaches investigative reporting skills at Columbia, webmasters the "Who is John Doe" site, and appeared in the documentary "Fed Up." His 2015 investigation, "Helpless &amp; Hooked," is prompting federal and state actions. @duffwilson
Greg Smith||Veteran investigative reporter for the Daily News. Covering New York City since 1993 for the Daily News. On the team that twice won the Daniel Pearl Investigative Reporting Award from the NY Deadline Club for exposes on Sept. 11th waste and fraud and violence on NYC school buses. Recent series on lax oversight and hidden dangers at NYC day care centers resulted in an overhaul of city regulators and filing of legislation to reform state inspections.
Jenifer McKim|@jbmckim|McKim is the senior investigative reporter at The New England Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news center at Boston University. Before joining NECIR in 2013, McKim was a social issues and business reporter at the Boston Globe where she received a 2011 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, McKim also worked at the Orange County Register in CA and the San Juan Star in PR. She was a 2008 Nieman fellow. She speaks fluent Spanish. Find her on Twitter @jbmckim.
Kathleen Johnston||Kathleen Johnston is investigative producer for CBS News. She's covered terrorism, earmark excesses, the lack of federal air marshals, citizens on watch lists, and allegations that personnel at a New Orleans hospital killed patients after Hurricane Katrina. She’s received numerous awards, including a duPont Silver Baton, two national Emmys and an IRE Award. Johnston previously spent 10 years at CNN, has worked at WTHR and the Indianapolis News and Star.
Edward Garcia|@edward_garcia|Edward Garcia is a Senior Account Manager serving as the primary point-of-contact for Caspio's media clients. Edward also conducts web-based and onsite training working with a range of companies including Hearst, Gannett, McClatchy, MediaNews, Scripps, Cox, Freedom, bizjournals, Lee, Dow Jones, Halifax, and Morris. @edward_garcia
Ellen Gabler|@egabler|Ellen Gabler is an investigative reporter and assistant editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her recent reporting exposed problems with medical labs and accrediting organizations that oversee them. The series was a Loeb and IRE finalist. Her reporting on flaws in newborn screening led to national reform. Her team received the Selden Ring, Loeb, IRE, Headliner and Scripps awards. She won the 2013 Livingston Award in National Reporting and is on IRE's board. @egabler
Keith Esparros||No bio
Manuel Torres|@nola|Manuel Torres is an editor at NOLA.com ! The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. He was part of a team that won two Pulitzer Prizes for Hurricane Katrina's coverage. He also led the news organization’s team for “Louisiana Purchased,” a multi-year investigation of money in politics in partnership with WVUE-TV. The project won a Peabody Award, two national Murrow Awards and an IRE Award. He is at mtorres@nola.com and @1manueltorres
Jeff Adelson|@theadvocate|Jeff Adelson is a city government reporter for The New Orleans Advocate. He was part of a team of reporters from the paper and WWL-TV that revealed dramatic increases in New Orleans Police Department response times in the award-winning "Call Waiting" series last year. He can be reached at jadelson@theadvocate.com or on Twitter at @jadelson.
Greg Phillips||No bio
Ryann Grochowski Jones|@ryanngro|Ryann Grochowski Jones is a data reporter at ProPublica. Previously, she was a data reporter for Investigative Newsource/KPBS in San Diego, Calif. She received her master’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where she was a data librarian for Investigative Reporters and Editors/National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. Ryann started her career as a municipal beat reporter for her hometown newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. @ryanngro
Jeanne Whalen|@JeanneWhalen|Jeanne Whalen is deputy bureau chief for health &amp; science in The Wall Street Journal's New York office. Previously she worked as a reporter in the Journal's London and Moscow bureaus. In earlier gigs she reported for the Moscow Times, the Financial Times and Advertising Age. Twitter @JeanneWhalen
Jenn Abelson|@jennabelson|Jenn Abelson is an investigative reporter for the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team. Since joining the team in 2013, she has reported on sexual abuse at private schools in New England, doctors operating on two patients at the same time, and dangerous off-campus housing for college students. As a business reporter at the Globe, Abelson investigated widespread seafood mislabeling at restaurants across Massachusetts in the award-winning series Fishy Business. @jennabelson
Tawnell Hobbs|@tawnell|Reporter Tawnell Hobbs covers education for The Dallas Morning News. Prior to that, she covered education for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She also has taught computer-assisted reporting at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Tawnell is among a team at the News recently honored with a 2016 National Headliner Award for education writing. Before becoming a journalist, Tawnell served in the United States Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard. @tawnell
Susan Ferriss|@susanferriss|The Center for Public Integrity's @susanferriss has produced investigations resulting in police and school reforms nationally. These prize-winning reports revealed how students were removed from school and criminalized for trivial reasons. Susan, a veteran immigration reporter, has worked at various newspapers and was Cox Newspapers Latin America correspondent for many years. She co-wrote The Fight in the Fields, and produced The Golden Cage, a film about farmworkers.
Michael LaForgia|@laforgia_|Michael LaForgia is an investigative reporter for the Tampa Bay Times. @laforgia_
Eric Flack|@flackwave3|12-time Emmy Award winner Eric Flack has been honored for investigative reporting, daily news coverage and overall excellence in reporting, most recently recognized for his in-depth look at corruption in the Kentucky State Police Department. Eric currently is Consumer Investigative reporter and Executive Producer of Special Projects at WAVE 3 TV, the NBC affiliate in Louisville, KY. Eric can be found on twitter at @flackwave3.
Jenna Susko|@JennaNBCLA|Jenna Susko is a national award winning investigative reporter at KNBC-Los Angeles, where she investigates Hollywood, uncovering wrongdoing in the entertainment capital of the world. Before joining KNBC, she was an investigative reporter in San Francisco at NBC Bay Area. Her stories center on holding the powerful accountable by using data-driven reporting. Her work has resulted in policy change, state investigations and the resignation of public officials. @JennaNBCLA
Kelly Hinchcliffe|@RecordsGeek|Kelly Hinchcliffe is an education reporter at WRAL in Raleigh, N.C., where she focuses on in-depth reporting using public records and data. She also writes a monthly column about public records for Poynter. Kelly previously worked as an education reporter at The Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C., and The Frederick News-Post in Frederick, Md. You can follow her on Twitter @RecordsGeek
Lee Fang|@LHFANG|Lee Fang is an Investigative journalist with The Intercept, covering the intersection of money, politics, and policy. @LHFANG
Kathryn Joyce|@kathrynajoyce|Kathryn Joyce is a freelance journalist and author of two books: The Child Catchers and Quiverfull. Her work has appeared in Highline, Pacific Standard, The American Prospect, Slate, Mother Jones and many others. She is a contributing editor at The New Republic. @kathrynajoyce
Kelly Virella||No bio
Trevor Aaronson||Trevor Aaronson is the executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and a contributing writer at The Intercept. He is also a TED fellow and author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. A two-time finalist for the Livingston Awards, Aaronson has won the Molly National Journalism Prize and the international Data Journalism Award.
Seth Wessler|@sethfw|Seth Freed Wessler is a fellow at the Schuster Institute and a reporter for the Investigative Fund. He has reported on topics including federal prison contracting, mental illness and child welfare, life after deportation in Mexico, and life after welfare in the heartland. Seth won a Hillman Prize for his stories on deported parents who lose custody of their children and was awarded an NYU Reporting Award and a Soros media fellowship. @sethfw
Fredreka Schouten|@fschouten|Fredreka Schouten covers money in politics for USA TODAY, where she writes about everything from the billionaires funding U.S. elections to scam super PACs. She's in the midst of her fourth, and most interesting, presidential campaign. She's had a lot of jobs in her career, including national education reporter for Gannett, city editor of the The Idaho Statesman and St. Croix bureau chief of The Virgin Islands Daily News, her hometown paper.@fschouten
Michael Beckel|@mjbeckel|Michael Beckel covers super PACs, politically active nonprofits and the influence of money in politics as a reporter at the Center for Public Integrity. His exploits have taken him inside the U.S. Supreme Court multiple times, including oral arguments for the landmark campaign finance cases Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and McCutcheon v. FEC. His previous employers include the Center for Responsive Politics and Mother Jones. He tweets at @mjbeckel.
Russ Choma|@russchoma|Russ is a reporter in the Washington bureau of Mother Jones covering money in politics and influence. He previously was a reporter for OpenSecrets.org, the Investigative Reporting Workshop, and the New Hampshire Union Leader. @russchoma
Greg LeRoy||Greg LeRoy directs Good Jobs First www.goodjobsfirst.org a resource center promoting accountability in economic development subsidies. State Tax Notes honored GJF for winning GASB Statement No 77, which will require most governments to account for the costs of “corporate welfare.” The author of The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation (2005), he, GJF's staff, and their data-rich websites assist journalists every day.
Hilary Russ||Hilary Russ writes about municipal bonds and public finance in New York for Reuters, where she has broken news on Atlantic City's fiscal crisis and other New Jersey topics. In 15 years as a journalist, she has covered cops, courts, public policy, corporate bankruptcy and white collar crime. She earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and worked at the Cape Cod Times, Newsday and Law360. She enjoys birding and boxing, not usually at the same time.
Sarita Nair||Sarita Nair is general counsel for the New Mexico State Auditor and oversees the Government Accountability Office, a division focused on bringing transparency and accountability to government finances. Sarita joined the Auditor after 10 years as a corporate lawyer. Prior to that, Sarita consulted on policy initiatives for organizations including the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the New York City Parks and Recreation Department.
Hannah Levintova|@H_Lev|Hannah Levintova is reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau of Mother Jones, where she writes about gender and reproductive rights and other topics. She's newly back in the Beltway after four years at Mother Jones' San Francisco headquarters. Previously, Hannah worked on the news desk at NPR, at the Washington Monthly, and for a stint as a FOIA officer at a federal agency. Follow her on Twitter: @H_Lev
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak||Marianne Szegedy-Maszak is a Senior Editor in the Washington Bureau of Mother Jones. She was a Senior Writer at US News &amp; World Report, a professor of journalism at American University, an editor at Congressional Quarterly, and has written for the New York Times Magazine and Esquire and other publications. She is the author of I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts Souls and Wars in Hungary and served on the board of the Center for Public integrity for twenty years.
Molly Redden||Molly Redden is a senior reporter for the Guardian US covering gender issues. Her subjects include reproductive healthcare access, transgender rights, workplace issues, sexual assault, and the intersection of gender and politics. Before joining the Guardian, Redden worked for Mother Jones, the New Republic, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She lives in New York.
Nina Martin||Nina Martin is a reporter at ProPublica, where she covers sex &amp; gender issues, with a focus on reproductive health and justice
Hans Peter Blicher||No bio
Rob Davis|@robwdavis|Rob Davis is an investigative reporter on The Oregonian's watchdog team, where he focuses on environmental contamination. He was previously a senior reporter and assistant editor at Voice of San Diego. @robwdavis
Sharon Guynup|@sguynup|Sharon Guynup writes about wildlife and environmental issues for National Geographic, The New York Times, and other outlets. She is co-author of Tigers Forever: Saving the World’s Most Endangered Big Cat, and is currently working on a book project focusing on environmental crime as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. @sguynup
Jeff Burnside||Jeff Burnside is a TV investigative reporter with more than 25 national &amp; regional journalism awards including an IRE honor and nearly a dozen Emmys. He also serves as president of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Jeff was most recently the Senior Investigative Reporter at KOMO TV Seattle. Previously, he was an investigative reporter with NBCMiami. His work helped fuel a US Supreme Court case and White House policy, put dozens behind bars, and changed many laws.
Ingrid Lobet||Ingrid Lobet is an investigative journalist working with <em>inewsource</em>. She has covered and edited stories on climate, energy and the environment for 15 years and won national awards, including IRE, Edward R. Murrow, Scripps Howard and the Polk (team). Welcomes collaboration, loves making making maps and visualizations, working with data and experimenting with new tools. When screen time overwhelms she reverts to carpentry, her first trade.
Ira Rosen||Ira Rosen is a producer at 60 Minutes. He has won 21 Emmys, five IRE awards, three Dupont awards and a Peabody. This year his stories on the Death Penalty in America was a Peabody finalist. He is a former Nieman fellow.
Tony Kovaleski||Tony Kovaleski is the Chief Investigative Reporter for KMGH-TV in Denver. He also serves as the Corporate Investigative Trainer for the EW Scripps group of broadcast stations. As an investigative reporter, Kovaleski's work has influenced public policy, changed laws and lead to prison sentences. His work has been recognized with awards including the duPont Columbia, National Emmy, Sigma Delta Chi, National Edward R. Murrow, National Headliner and 29 regional Emmys.
Matthew Mosk|@mattmosk|Matthew Mosk is a producer with the investigative unit at ABC News. Prior to joining ABC, Mr. Mosk covered government and politics for the Bergen Record, the Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post and The Washington Times. @mattmosk
Jack Gillum|@jackgillum|Jack Gillum is a reporter on the Washington investigations team of The Associated Press, where he focuses on government accountability, data journalism and the intersection of technology and surveillance. He's previously reported on campaign finance during the 2012 presidential election, and has pursued data-driven investigations into standardized test cheating and college athletics at USA Today. He has also reported for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. @jackgillum
John Kelly|@jkelly3rd|John Kelly is the Data and Investigations Editor for USA TODAY NETWORK, leading investigative and data-driven journalism for USA TODAY and more than 100 local newsrooms across the USA TODAY NETWORK. Find him on Twitter at @jkelly3rd.
Maud Beelman|@maudbeelman|Maud Beelman is the AP’s editor for Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, focusing on investigations and enterprise. As an AP foreign correspondent, she covered post-war crises in the Middle East and wars in the former Yugoslavia. She previously led investigations for The Dallas Morning News and worked at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., where she was founding director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. @maudbeelman
Michael Morisy|@morisy|Michael Morisy is the founder of MuckRock, an investigative news site and FOIA filing service. He was previously editor of the Boston Globe's BetaBoston, and was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford. @morisy
Jessica Terrell||Jessica Terrell is a reporter for Honolulu Civil Beat. Terrell, who grew up in a traveling New Orleans family jazz band, started her reporting career at the Orange County Register in California. Her 2015 series, "The Harbor," about life in Hawaii's largest homeless encampment, won a second place National Headliner Award for local news beat coverage and received an honorable mention from the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism.
Todd Wallack|@twallack|Todd Wallack is a investigative and data reporter for the Boston Globe's Spotlight team. He won a Scripps Howard award in 2016 for exposing problems with the Massachusetts public records laws and was part of teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 and 2015. Prior to joining the Globe in 2007, he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Herald and Dayton Daily News. @twallack
Katherine Sayre|@katherinesayre|Katherine Sayre is a business reporter in New Orleans covering commercial and residential real estate. She joined NOLA.com ! The Times-Picayune in 2012 after working for newspapers in Alabama and Texas. @katherinesayre
Nils Mulvad|@nmulvad|Nils Mulvad is partner and CEO at Kaas &amp; Mulvad. He is specialized in getting and analyzing data by extracting websites, negociating, using FOI-requests and scraping. He has trained journalists and others in data for more than 20 years. Nils Mulvad cofounded DICAR, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Farmsubsidy.org and Scoop. @nmulvad
Roy Harris|@royjharrisjr|Roy Harris, author of Pulitzer’s Gold: A Century of Public Service Journalism, was a longtime Wall Street Journal reporter, and in The Economist organization, and also worked briefly at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Los Angeles Times. He contributes to Poynter.org, writing on prize-winning journalism. For Pulitzer's Gold he researched 100 years of public service Pulitzer honorees, tracing the development of team-based reporting. He lives in Hingham, MA.@royjharrisjr
James B. Steele||James B. Steele, a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter and co-author of eight books, is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. His most recent story, “A Wing And A Prayer,” on the outsourcing of aircraft maintenance, appeared in the December 2015 Vanity Fair.
James Grimaldi||James V. Grimaldi is a senior writer for the investigations desk of The Wall Street Journal in Washington DC and often writes about the intersection of money and politics. He won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and won the Selden Ring Award for uncovering a lobbying scandal. He shared a Pulitzer for investigative reporting at The Orange County Register and has won many honors, including three National Press Club awards. He is on the board of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, has been a Ferris professor at Princeton University and is past president of IRE.
Steve Eder|@steveeder|Steve Eder is an investigative reporter for The New York Times, covering the 2016 presidential campaign. He previously reported for The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and The Toledo Blade. He and colleagues have received Loeb, Scripps Howard, Polk, and APME awards, as well as being honored as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. His reporting has ranged from public corruption to hedge funds, to NFL domestic violence, to spying spouses. @steveeder
Jonathan Salant|@JDSalant|Jonathan D. Salant (@JDSalant) is NJ Advance Media's Washington correspondent. His stories appear in The Star-Ledger, The Times of Trenton and South Jersey Times and on nj.com. He has spent more than 25 years covering Congress and money and politics in Washington, and was part of a team that won the Dirksen Award and was a Toner Award finalist for a project on dark money. He sits on the Standing Committee of Correspondents and the Regional Reporters Association board.
Kathy Kiely|@kathykiely|When Kathy Kiely started her journalism career, the must-have tools were dimes (for pay phones), carbon paper and a police scanner. She has covered every presidential campaign since 1980. Restrictions over her ability to cover the 2016 edition led her to resign her post as Washington News Director of Bloomberg Politics earlier this year. She now writes, edits and commissions stories for Bill Moyers' website. Pitch her @kathykiely
Jamie Grey||Jamie Grey is an assistant professor of radio/television journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She is also managing editor of the university-owned NBC affiliate KOMU-TV, where she anchors and supervises the Target 8 investigative team. Prior to teaching, Grey worked for NBC affiliates in Iowa and Idaho, where she won numerous investigative and crime reporting awards, including a regional Emmy and several Murrows.
Jeff Harris||Jeff Harris is News Director at WEWS-TV in his home town of Cleveland, Ohio. Previously, he was News Director at KMGH and EP of Investigations/Specials at KPIX and KMGH. His career is dedicated to the cultivation and support of investigative journalism in the newsroom. His honors include three duPont-Columbia Awards; two Peabody Awards; three National Murrow Awards; the National Headliner Grand Award; and the IRE Certificate.
Jennifer Cobb|@thejencobb|Jennifer Cobb is an award winning journalist and the Executive Producer of Investigations at KHOU. She’s received a DuPont Silver Baton, two national Edward R. Murrows, and the Tom Renner Award from IRE. She’s lead successful investigative teams in Houston, Los Angeles, Cincinnati and Las Vegas. @thejencobb
Robert Gebeloff|@gebeloffnyt|Robert Gebeloff has been a database projects editor at The New York Times since 2008. Recent stories looked at the impact of mandatory arbitration on consumers and employees, regulation of the Bakken oil boom, and the demographics of Obamacare. @gebeloffnyt
Sarah Ryley|@MissRyley|Sarah Ryley is the data projects editor and an investigative reporter at the New York Daily News, where she has primarily covered criminal justice and racial disparities in Broken Windows policing. She also teaches an investigative reporting workshop at The New School. @MissRyley
Jennifer Preston||Jennifer Preston joined Knight Foundation in 2014. She was an award-winning journalist for The New York Times, as a digital journalist, reporter and senior editor. The company’s first social media editor, she then returned to reporting where she focused on the impact of social media in politics, government, business and real life. She teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. She was elected to the board of directors of the Online News Association
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries||Jennifer is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she works on the data investigations team. She was a key member of the team behind “What They Know,” the Journal’s long-running series on digital privacy, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2012. Previously, she was the lead writer and editor for the Journal’s technology blog. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.
Jerry Mitchell|@jmitchellnews|Jerry Mitchell: Investigative reporter, The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson MS. 2009 MacArthur fellow. Helped put 4 KKK members and a suspected serial killer behind bars. Writing memoir. @jmitchellnews https://www.facebook.com/jerry.mitchell.5872
Robert Cribb||Robert Cribb is an award -winning investigative reporter at the Toronto Star. Cribb is past president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, the first non­-U.S. board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and current president of Canadian journalism non-profit Veritas - Advancing Journalism in the Public Interest. He teaches investigative reporting at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism and the University of Toronto.
Jim Strickland|@wsbtv|WSB-TV's Jim Strickland's investigations have led to corporate shake-ups and federal raids on offending businesses. One groundbreaking series led to sweeping regulation of the city of Atlanta's car booting industry. Jim has more than 35 years of broadcasting experience. Jim has won six Emmys, the Edward R. Murrow Award and many other awards. strickland@wsbtv.com @JStricklandWSB facebook.com/Jim-Strickland-1030705760344162
Shaun Assael|@shaunassael|Shaun Assael is one of the original staff members at ESPN Magazine and a member of the network’s Enterprise &amp; Investigations Group. He is a regular contributor to the ESPN show Outside the Lines and has written four books, including the forthcoming "Murder of Sonny Liston," to be published Oct. 18 by Penguin-Random House. A native New Yorker, he now resides in North Carolina and can be reached @shaunassael.
John Diedrich|@john_diedrich|John Diedrich does investigative work for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, focusing on criminal justice, federal regulation and other areas. Investigations include uncovering botched federal undercover gun-buying stings, mistakes leading to the death of a kickboxer and FDA failures to protect the public from contaminated alcohol wipes. @john_diedrich
Steve Riley||Steve Riley is senior editor for investigations at The News &amp; Observer, where he has worked for 30 years. His team broke numerous stories involving the UNC academic/athletic scandal, revealed widespread spending abuse in non-profit hospitals and has helped send multiple public officials to prison. Projects he has led have won dozens of national awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy grand prize, and have twice been a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.
Kevin Merida|@meridak|Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, “The Undefeated” Kevin Merida joined ESPN in November 2015 as senior vice president and editor-in-chief of “The Undefeated,” ESPN’s media platform for exploring the intersections of race, sports and culture. He is responsible for the site’s editorial direction, tone and policies, and provides oversight and strategy leadership for key initiatives undertaken by “The Undefeated.” @meridak
Judge Arthur L. Hunter Jr.||Judge Arthur L. Hunter, Jr. was elected in 1996 to the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, New Orleans, Louisiana. Judge Hunter earned his Bachelor's Degree and Juris Doctor from Loyola University of New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a visiting faculty member of Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop. Judge Hunter was inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame and named a "2015 Legal Rebel" by the American Bar Association.
John Simerman|@johnsimerman|John Simerman covers criminal justice in New Orleans with a focus on state and federal courts and policing issues. He has worked for the New Orleans Advocate since 2013. Prior to that he worked for the Times-Picayune/NOLA.com following 16 years at the Contra Costa Times in the San Francisco Bay Area as a reporter and editor. @johnsimerman
Jorge Luis Sierra|@latinointx|ICFJ Knight Fellow Jorge Luis Sierra focuses on the intersection of cyber security, technology and investigative journalism. During his Knight Fellowship, Sierra is developing digital security tools and crowd-sourced maps to track crime, corruption and attacks on journalists. An award-winning Mexican investigative journalist, he covered a range of conflict-related topics such as drug trafficking, organized crime, and counterinsurgency before joining ICFJ. @latinointx
Mike Tigas|@mtigas|Mike Tigas is a news applications developer at ProPublica, developing tools and stories on a wide range of subjects, including healthcare data and digital privacy. He is a lead developer of Tabula (a tool to help extract data from PDF files) and Onion Browser (an anonymizing web browser for iPhone and iPad). He was a 2013 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow and previously worked at The Spokesman-Review. @mtigas
Ronnie Greene||Ronnie Greene is Washington Enterprise Editor for Reuters, and teaches graduate writing at Johns Hopkins University. His second book, Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina (Beacon Press, 2015), was awarded the IRE Book Award. Greene spent most of his career at The Miami Herald, as an investigative reporter and editor.
Nancy Stancill|@nancystancill|Nancy Stancill is the author of two suspense novels and a former investigative reporter for the Charlotte Observer and the Houston Chronicle. She is a former member of the IRE board and founder of the Godfrey Wells Stancill Fellowship, which sends a journalist to the IRE convention each year. Her new politics-and-journalism novel was published by Black Rose Writing in May. She lives in Charlotte, NC. Twitter: @nancystancill
Mike Stanton|@projomike|Mike Stanton teaches journalism at the University of Connecticut. He was a longtime investigative reporter at The Providence Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize &amp; IRE Medal. He wrote a bestselling book, The Prince of Providence, about charismatic &amp; crooked ex-mayor Buddy Cianci. He is now writing a biography of undefeated heavyweight boxing champ Rocky Marciano for Henry Holt. He is a graduate of Syracuse &amp; Northwestern &amp; former Knight fellow at Stanford. @projomike
Julian Sher|@juliansher|Julian Sher is the Senior Producer of CBC Television’s the fifth estate – Canada’s premier investigative TV program. He was an investigative journalist for the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star and his reporting has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today and Readers' Digest International. He is also the author of six books on crime and the justice system. Find out more at www.juliansher.com. @juliansher Email: julian.sher@cbc.ca
Lee Rood||A former investigative editor at The Des Moines Register, Lee Rood began the Reader’s Watchdog column in 2012 to investigate Iowans’ problems with businesses, government, nonprofits and service providers. Her work, all driven by readers, has resulted in criminal charges, state legislation, consumer protection action, life-saving assistance and good deeds for Iowans in need. It has since been replicated at several Gannett locales.
Raquel Rutledge||Raquel Rutledge is an investigative reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel where she covers a variety of subjects from health and science to crime and taxes. Her investigations have won an assortment of national awards including a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. She was honored with a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2011. In her latest work, Rutledge has uncovered how a chemical that causes deadly lung disease is endangering coffee workers and vapers.
Julie Watts||Julie is a Consumer-Investigative Reporter/Anchor at KPIX. Her reports also air weekly on KCBS and CBS stations nationwide. Her work has prompted FDA recalls, federal investigations, and new legislation. It was recently honored with a National Press Club Award &amp; has earned more than a dozen Emmys, APs &amp; Murrows. Julie's also the founder of NewsMom.com; an outlet for journalists to share their relevant reports with an audience of parents they wouldn’t otherwise reach.
Ted Han|@knowtheory|Software developer by trade, Linguist by degree, and Scifi nerd by leisure, Ted Han joined DocumentCloud as lead developer during DocumentCloud's transition to IRE. @knowtheory
Justin Reese|@reefdog|Justin Reese joined DocumentCloud's development team in 2015 and focuses on the platform’s front-end components. Before that, Justin spent years translating complicated enterprise requirements into simple, usable web apps. He also makes short films and tolerable pizza, and occasionally writes things at justinreese.com. @reefdog
Lee Zurik|@leezurik|Lee Zurik is an Evening Anchor and Chief Investigative Reporter at WVUE-TV in New Orleans. He's been honored with two Peabody Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, the IRE Medal, three IRE Certificates, seven National Edward R. Murrow Awards, and five Sigma Delta Chi awards. Before Hurricane Katrina, Lee was a sports anchor. He taught himself to be an investigative reporter by reading IRE resources (books and tipsheets) and attending eight IRE conferences. @leezurik
Karen Gadbois|@gadboislensnola|Karen Gadbois is the co-founder of The Lens. Gadbois won some of the highest honors in journalism, including a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and a gold medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. In 2012 she was awarded the Ethics in Journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her reporting on the NOPD’s policy of publicizing the criminal records of homicide victims. @gadboislensnola
Katie Moore|@KATIECMOORE|Katie Moore is an award-winning broadcast investigative journalist for WWLTV. Her work has raised questions about the use of the pulpit for politics, exposed double billing for the housing of inmates at Orleans Parish Prison, cut through the hype in the battle against human trafficking, exposed sweetheart deals in the local justice system, and detailed a gap in the security of the nation's airports. @KATIECMOORE
Robert McClendon||Robert McClendon has covered local government on the Gulf Coast for 10 years. He helped solve a cold-case homicide, covered the first public pension default since the Great Depression, and prefers the Oxford comma.
Scott Sternberg|@slslsu|Scott is an attorney at Baldwin Haspel Burke &amp; Mayer, LLC in New Orleans. Scott serves as General Counsel to the Louisiana Press Association, answering freedom of information calls from around the state and monitoring Legislative developments. Scott has represented media organizations, interest groups and citizens in open government-related matters and regularly testifies before the Louisiana Legislature. Scott also maintains a general civil litigation practice. @slslsu
Katherine Reed|@reedkath|Katherine Reed, an associate professor on the Print and Digital faculty at the Missouri School of Journalism, has been a journalist for about 30 years. In the 1990s, she was a victim’s advocate and a consultant for the National Victim’s Center. She has done training for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and the Disaster and Community Crisis Center at MU. She teaches reporting and a trauma reporting class for undergraduate and graduate students. @reedkath
Ken Armstrong||Ken Armstrong works at The Marshall Project, where he won the 2016 Pulitzer for explanatory reporting with T. Christian Miller of ProPublica. He's also won the Pulitzer for investigative reporting and shared in two others for breaking news. He previously worked at The Seattle Times and Chicago Tribune, where his work helped prompt the Illinois governor to suspend executions and empty death row. He's been a six-time IRE award winner and a writing professor at Princeton.
Ken Foskett|@KenFoskett|Ken Foskett is senior editor for investigations at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he has worked since 1989 as reporter and editor. He is the author of "Judging Thomas: The Life &amp; Times of Clarence Thomas" (William Morrow, 2004). He serves on the board of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation, which educates Georgians about government transparency and Sunshine laws. He is a graduate of Yale College and the Columbia School of Journalism. @KenFoskett
Lorie Hearn|@loriehearn|Lorie Hearn is founder, executive director and editor of inewsource, a data-driven journalism nonprofit based at San Diego State University. Hearn's Metro staff at The San Diego Union-Tribune was part of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories on the corruption of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Her inewsource reporters have won eight national awards, including two from IRE. Hearn was a Nieman fellow, and now teaches Investigative Journalism at SDSU. @loriehearn
Mark Greenblatt||Mark Greenblatt is a senior national investigative correspondent for the Scripps Washington Bureau. He is a 3-time Peabody Winner and has earned the IRE Medal, duPont-Columbia, Livingston, Natl Emmy, Natl Murrow and is a 2-time finalist for Harvard's Goldsmith Prize. His work has led to widespread national reforms.He is a board member of the D.C.-based Fund For Investigative Journalism. Mark roots for the Red Sox and brews his own beer from his home in Alexandria, VA.
Kirsten Danis|@kirstendanis|Kirsten Danis is managing editor at The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom focusing on the criminal justice system that won a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. She has been an editor and reporter at several New York newspapers, most recently at The Wall Street Journal, where her work was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize and the Selden Ring. Danis lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Robert Kolker, and their two children. @kirstendanis
Lakshmi Sarah|@lakitalki|Born and raised in California, Lakshmi is an educator and journalist with a focus on South Asia, gender, race and the arts. Over the past few years, she has worked with newspapers, radio and magazines from Botswana to Los Angeles. She has written and produced for Mic, Global Voices, Al Jazeera English, AJ+, Fusion and KQED Arts. Lakshmi is a graduate of Pitzer College and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. @lakitalki
Robert Hernandez||Robert Hernandez, aka WebJournalist, is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at USC Annenberg, but he’s not an academic… he’s more of a “hackademic.” His most recent work includes Augmented Reality, Wearables/Google Glass and Virtual Reality, in which he and his students produce VR experiences under their brand: Jovrnalism. He serves on the Online News Association board and a lifetime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Trey Bundy||Trey Bundy covers youth for the Center for Investigative Reporting. After beginning his career at the San Francisco Chronicle, he joined the Bay Citizen, where he covered child welfare, juvenile justice, education and crime. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the PBS NewsHour, the Huffington Post and other outlets. He was nominated for a national Emmy in 2015. In 2009, he won the national Hearst Journalism Award for article of the year.
Stephan Gensch||Stephan is a Berlin based software developer and co-founder of VRagments. As Head of Product Development, he directs development of the Virtual Reality platform Fader. He also leads project development of individual VR experiences for customers, balancing concept, design and coding. Current project are based on Unity3D and WebVR, with a strong focus on journalism. Stephan further creates visions to utilize Virtual Reality for smart cities. twitter.com/helrenpdm
Lea Thompson||Lea Thompson - Former Chief Correspondent, Dateline NBC (16 yrs) &amp; anchor/head of WRC-Tv's investigative unit (15 yrs). On IRE board many years - now trying to save the IRE Broadcast Archive and teaching investigative reporting around the world. Her work is behind 3 acts of Congress &amp; dozens of laws, recalls and policy changes as well as TV movies &amp; 3 books. Lea has won multiples of major awards: IRE, Peabody, Polk, Loeb, duPont, numerous Emmys, many lifetime awards.
Len Tepper||Len Tepper is the Supervising Senior Producer of the CBS News Investigative Unit. The unit contributes to all CBS News platforms. Their reports include Wounded Warrior Project Lavish Spending, Compounding Insurance fraud, ISIS Black Market Antiquities Smuggling and Automobile Seat back Safety. Len joined CBS News as Chief of Investigative Projects in 2009. Previously,he served as Chief Investigative Producer at ABC News. Len has been honored with EMMY and Peabody awards.
Rhonda Schwartz|@RhondaABC|Rhonda Schwartz is the Chief Investigative Producer of the Brian Ross Investigative team which reports for World News, Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20 , ABC Radio and "The Blotter" on ABCNews.com. In her distinguished career at both ABC News and NBC News, Schwartz has been honored to receive Peabody, Polk, DuPont, Murrow, IRE, Goldsmith, OPC and Emmy awards for stories ranging from Wal-Mart’s use of child labor overseas to the Mark Foley scandal. @RhondaABC
Tisha Thompson|@TishaOnTV|@TishaOnTV first joined IRE when she was 16 years old. She's now the data geek and investigative reporter at NBC Washington. The winner of more than 100 national and regional awards, including 21 Emmy Awards, she's been named "Best Reporter" in the nation and in every market she's worked in. On the board for The Fund for Investigative Journalism, she's a 5-time IRE Finalist, most recently for her 7 year FOI fight with the US State Department for diplomatic crime records.
Phil Williams|@NC5PhilWilliams|Phil Williams is chief investigative reporter for WTVF-TV in Nashville, specializing in government corruption and waste. A three-time winner of the George Foster Peabody Award and the duPont Award, he's also a recipient of a George Polk Award, an IRE Medal, the Hillman Prize, as well as several National Headliner Awards and Sigma Delta Chi Awards. A former print reporter, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a member of the IRE Board. Twitter: @NC5PhilWilliams
Lisa Cohen|@lisarcohen|Cohen is Director of Prizes at Columbia Journalism School for the duPont Awards, the university's audio/video counterpart to the Pulitzer Prizes, and an adjunct associate professor teaching narrative video. She is also an Emmy award winning former network TV news producer (ABC/CBS), documentary filmmaker, and author.In 2011 she directed the verité documentary “Serving LIfe,” with Executive Producer Forest Whitaker, for OWN's Doc Club. @lisarcohen
Lynn Walsh|@LWalsh|Lynn is the Executive Producer of NBC 7 Investigates, where she leads the investigative unit in San Diego. She serves as the current President-Elect for the Society of Professional Journalists. She spends more time than she would like fighting for access to public information. You can follow her on Twitter @LWalsh.
Malavika Jayaram|@MalJayaram|Malavika is the inaugural Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub, Hong Kong, incubated by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She previously practised media and technology law for over 15 years. She is Adjunct Faculty for Northwestern’s Master of Science in Law program. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, and is on the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). @MalJayaram
Sarah Morris|@sarmorris|Sarah Morris, Director of Open Internet Policy. As Director of Open Internet Policy for New America’s Open Technology Institute, Sarah Morris leads OTI’s efforts on issues related to broadband access and adoption, online consumer protections, and net neutrality. She has been quoted in a number of national publications and has appeared as an expert on radio and television outlets. She frequently writes for a variety of national outlets. @sarmorris
Manny Garcia||Manny Garcia is Editor of the Naples Daily News. In Naples, his teams expose government waste, and recently reformed Florida’s failed charter school system. Their recent work has won a Headliner and regional Edward R. Murrow awards. Manny, an IRE member since 1997, is a former board member and president. His investigations have helped convict public officials, ousted a congressman, changed Florida law and freed a man from prison. His awards include the Pulitzer, Goldsmith and IRE.
Ray Rivera|@raystypos|A former staff reporter for The New York Times, Ray Rivera took over as Editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican in late 2013. He has also worked at the Washington Post, the Seattle Times and the Salt Lake Tribune. His investigative work has included stories on NY city council members funneling millions of dollars to bogus non-profits, and the federal government’s failed espionage investigation into Capt. James Yee, Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay. Twitter @raystypos
Steve Suo||No bio
Mark Rochester|@mjrochester|Mark J. Rochester is executive editor at The Herald in South Carolina. He also has held senior management positions with The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Associated Press in San Francisco &amp; Honolulu, The Denver Post, Newsday and The Indianapolis Star overseeing investigations and enterprise. He is a former IRE board member. @mjrochester
William Lyon|@lyonwj|William Lyon is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo Technology, stewards of the Neo4j graph database. As a software developer on the Developer Relations team he works with other developers to analyze data and build graph applications. Prior to joining Neo, William worked as a software developer for startups in real estate software, fintech, and data analytics. William holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Montana. @lyonwj lyonwj.com
Peter Klein|@peterwklein|Peter Klein is the founder of the Global Reporting Centre, a non-profit focused on producing and innovating journalism on under-reported issues around the world. He was a longtime producer at 60 Minutes, is a regular columnist for The Globe &amp; Mail, and is professor and former director at the University of British Columbia School of Journalism. He's the recipient of numerous journalism awards, including several Emmy, Murrow and Sigma Delta Chi awards. @peterwklein
Martha Mendoza|@mendozamartha|Martha Mendoza is a Pulitzer Prize-winning National Writer for the Associated Press. @mendozamartha
Richard Marosi||Los Angeles Times' staff writer Richard Marosi is an RFK journalism award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, most recently in 2015 for a series that exposed widespread labor abuses at Mexican export farms. His political corruption investigations contributed to the indictment, ouster or recall of more than 10 Los Angeles County politicians. He has also covered the Mexican drug war, producing a groundbreaking series about the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Mary Rajkumar||Mary Rajkumar is the international enterprise editor for The Associated Press. She headed the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer gold medal for Public Service, for an investigation leading to the rescue of more than 2,000 enslaved fishermen. She also edited two projects named Pulitzer Prize finalists, on al-Qaida in 2014 and on child trafficking in 2009. Rajkumar, a native of Singapore, graduated from Cambridge and Stanford and has served on a Pulitzer jury twice.
Matt Goldberg||Matt Goldberg, is the Managing Editor at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles and the current vice-president of the IRE board of directors. He has been honored with many local and national awards, including the IRE certificate. He has worked in management and as an investigative producer for television stations in Phoenix, Houston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. His stories have exposed consumer fraud, government corruption and health and human rights violations.
Nicole Vap|@nicolevap|Nicole Vap is the Executive Producer of the 9Wants to Know unit at KUSA in Denver. She has been a finalist for the IRE Freedom of Information award, won a 2011 DuPont Silver Baton for excellence in Broadcast journalism along with numerous Emmy's and Edward R. Murrow awards. She can be reached at @nicolevap and Nicole.vap@9news.com. She was originally elected onto the IRE Board of Directors in 2014.
Mikel Schaefer|@mschaeferfox8|Mikel Schaefer is the News Director at WVUE-TV FOX 8 in New Orleans. Schaefer joined WVUE in November of 2008 after nearly 25 years at WWL-TV in New Orleans. Schaefer oversees news content on all platforms. Since 2010 WVUE has been honored with a Peabody, two Alfred I. duPont awards and 10 National Edward R. Murrow award including Overall Excellence. @mschaeferfox8
Meghan Hoyer|@meghanhoyer|Meghan Hoyer is a data journalist at The Associated Press, where she analyzes data and helps disseminate national data sets to reporters across the country, guiding them to find local stories in the numbers. She previously worked at USA TODAY and The Virginian-Pilot. @meghanhoyer
Miguel Barbosa||Miguel Barbosa is co-founder of CitizenAudit.org a website that helps investigative reporters analyze and search through nonprofit tax documents (form 990's).
Miranda Patrucic|@MirandaOCCRP|Miranda Patrucic is investigative reporter and editor for OCCRP focusing on Azerbaijan, Central Asia and Balkans. Highlights of her work include exposing billions in telecom bribes in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan and uncovering hidden assets of Montenegro's ruling family. She collaborated with ICIJ on Swiss Leaks and Panama Papers. She won number of international awards including Global Shining Light Award, IRE Tom Renner Award, and the European Press Prize. @MirandaOCCRP
Nick Grube|@nickgrube|Nick Grube is a reporter at Honolulu Civil Beat, an online investigative news site created in 2010 by eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar. Grube has worked in several states, including Wisconsin, California, Oregon and Hawaii. He's covered everything from politics and campaign finance to government contracting and police corruption. You can follow him on Twitter @nickgrube or contact him via email at nick@civilbeat.com.
Terri Langford|@tlangford|Terri Langford is an investigative reporter for The Texas Tribune where she covers state agencies and criminal justice issues. She has worked for the WNYC, the Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, the Associated Press and the Florida Times-Union. Langford is a University of Texas graduate. @tlangford
Travers Mackel|@TraversWDSU|Travers Mackel is an award winning investigative report at WDSU, the NBC affiliate in New Orleans. His investigative work has uncovered problems inside local police departments, government entities and the judicial system. A native New Orlranian, Travers has worked at WDSU for 13 years covering Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill and the federal corruption trial of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. @TraversWDSU
Patricia DiCarlo|@pdicarlocnn|Patricia DiCarlo is Director of CNN Investigations, based in Washington, DC. Prior to that role, she was Executive Producer for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Patricia is the recipient of dozens of awards for both investigative and show-based work, including Peabody, Emmy, Murrow, and many regional honors. Prior to joining CNN, Patricia worked on The Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago, and as Executive Producer of WTTG-Fox5 in Washington, DC. @pdicarlocnn
Patti Dennis||Patti Dennis has been working in electronic media for 38 years. Currently she is Vice President News at TEGNA Media overseeing the talent recruiting and working with several stations on news content, distribution and marketing strategies. Patti has worked at VP News Director for 20 years at KUSA in Denver and has produced thousands of daily newscasts over 3 decades. Patti is also involved in programming development at TEGNA currently hosting a weekly DIY show.
Patti DiVincenzo|@PattiWSB|Patti is an Investigative Producer and Data Specialist for WSB-TV in Atlanta. She’s honored to be a 2015 IRE certificate winner, along with colleagues at WSB and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, for a year-long series on police shootings in Georgia. The series led to a change in state law that takes effect next month. Patti trains her newsroom on data techniques and aids her team in large-scale stories with information management. @PattiWSB
Ramon Escobar||Ramon Escobar is Vice President of Talent Recruitment and Development for CNN Worldwide. He is responsible for the recruitment of all on-air talent for CNN U.S., CNN International, CNN en Español and HLN. He also advances the internal development of all anchors, correspondents and contributors. Escobar is based out of New York City and has held his current position since 2012.
Ronald Campbell|@campbellronaldw|Ronald Campbell is data editor for the NBC Owned Television Stations. He previously worked for the Center for Health Reporting and the Orange County Register. He has written about health, the census, immigration, white-collar crime and the trade in human body parts. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award, the IRE Award and the Philip Meyer Award (3rd place). He lives in Orange County, Calif. In his spare time he hikes and rock climbs. @campbellronaldw
Rui Kaneya|@ruikaneya|Rui Kaneya is an investigative reporter at Honolulu Civil Beat, specializing in covering social justice issues. He was previously a correspondent for Columbia Journalism Review and the investigations editor at The Chicago Reporter. @ruikaneya
Samantha Sunne|@samanthasunne|Samantha Sunne is freelance reporter working on data and investigative projects from a homebase in New Orleans. She also does projects with Hacks/Hackers and runs a newsletter called Tools for Reporters. She is an IRE Freelance Fellow for 2016. @samanthasunne
Sandhya Kambhampati||Sandhya Kambhampati is a 2016 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow based at Correctiv in Berlin, Germany. She is currently working on an investigation on nursing homes, as well as a personal project on newsroom processes. She is passionate about open records, data literacy and statistics. Previously, she worked at The Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington, DC, where she reported on college administrative pay and athletics.
Steve Buttry|@stevebuttry|Steve Buttry is Director of Student Media at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. He has been practicing and teaching journalism for more than 40 years, including investigative stories on sexual abuse by priests and counselors, cement production and prosecution of rape cases. Buttry was named Editor of the Year in 2010 by Editor &amp; Publisher magazine for his work as editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette. @stevebuttry
Steve Doig|@sdoig|Steve Doig (@sdoig) holds the Knight Chair at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism. Before joining ASU in 1996, he was Associate Editor/Research of the Miami Herald. Projects on which he worked at The Herald and at ASU have won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the IRE Award, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the George Polk Award, and other recognition. He is a former member of the IRE board.
Steve Reilly|@BySteveReilly|Steve Reilly is an investigative reporter and data specialist for the USA TODAY Network, where he collaborates on investigative reporting projects with Gannett journalists nationwide. He previously worked as an investigative reporter and editor for Gannett Central New York Media. @BySteveReilly
Steven Ackermann||Steven Ackermann is Vice President of News for Raycom Media. Raycom Media owns or provides services for 62 television stations in 42 markets and 20 states. Ackermann joined Raycom in February 2005 as News Director for WXIX/FOX19 in Cincinnati and joined the corporate team as a Regional News Director in 2010. Prior to working for Raycom, Ackermann launched Texas Cable News and also was an Executive3 Producer for CBS News.
Susana Schuler||Susana Schuler was just promoted to EVP Content &amp; Operations for Raycom Media after ten years with the Montgomery, AL based company overseeing news, marketing, programming and recently adding research. A native Texan &amp; TCU Alumnus, she worked almost a decade for Nexstar Broadcasting Group and prior years in news management, reporting, producing &amp; anchoring. Schuler was honored with the RTNDA First Amendment Award as well as B &amp; C's Women to Watch in Media recognition.
Thomas Thoren|@thomasjthoren|Thomas Thoren is a data reporter for The Lens, a nonprofit newsroom in New Orleans. He has designed news applications for city contracts, property sales and elections. His reporting and design work have appeared in Gambit Weekly and CU-CitizenAccess. @thomasjthoren
Troy Thibodeaux|@tthibo|Troy Thibodeaux is interactive newsroom technology editor for The Associated Press. He leads a team of data journalists based around the U.S. who work with reporters, editors and visual journalists throughout AP to find and tell stories from data. He lives in New Orleans, just downriver from the French Quarter, so hit him up if you need a recommendation from a local. @tthibo
Tyson Weister||Tyson Weister is a Survey Statistician in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey Office (ACSO). In this capacity, Tyson engages and informs data users of the survey through outreach and educational activities. Tyson holds bachelor’s degrees from Indiana University, along with his master’s degree in communication from Purdue University.