2014 IRE CONFERENCE AUDIO

To access audio: Go to the IRE Conference Schedule page and click on the session you want to listen to. Under the headers for “Date/Time” and “Location” you’ll find a section called “Audio File.” If the audio has been uploaded, you’ll find a link to download the file. Full-panel audio is only available for IRE members.

Uploaded sessions:

60 (data-driven) ideas in 60 minutes

All about surveillance: Cameras, GPS, drones, databases and more

An app for that: Mobile tech and tools for reporting

Art of storytelling: Blueprints

Art of storytelling: Building chemistry

Art of storytelling: Danger from above

Art of storytelling: Deadly neglect

Art of storytelling: Forensics

Art of storytelling: Structure, organization and finding characters

Art of storytelling: Toxic pipeline

Art of storytelling: Writing the data story

Best of broadcast

Book ‘em: Getting your work published

Breaking the silence: Getting the story when officials, agencies won’t talk

Broadcast: 60 stories in 60 minutes

Broadcast: Breaking news

Broadcast: Interviewing

Broadcast: Joint investigations

Broadcast: Management - Picking the stories and staying the course

Broadcast: More personality

Broadcast: Undercover on a budget

Broadcast: Visual storytelling

Broadcast: Web collaborations

Broadcast: Writing for broadcast*

Building trust: Getting reluctant sources to talk

Campus coverage: College sports

Campus coverage: Sexual assault and other crimes on campus

Collaboration: Bringing students into your investigation

Complaints: A roadmap to killer stories

CompStat USA

Coverage, consequence and why staffing matters

Covering prisons, jails and “mass incarceration”

Data-driven ethics: Tricky questions buried in the numbers

Deep dive: Broadcast*

Deep dive: Charting the course to an investigative newsroom

Deep dive: Design thinking for journalists

Deep dive: Investigating economic disparities

Deep dive: Student investigations

Deep dives 2: Broadcast

Detecting corporate fraud: Tips from a crook and a sleuth

Docs!Docs!Docs!

Finding needles in a social media haystack

Follow the money: Tracking fraud, waste and mismanagement

Fraud: The memorabilia racket

Free the data

Friendly fire: Investigating do-gooders and crowd-pleasers

From the newsroom to the classroom

Getting lucky: Uncovering those gaming the system

Immigration and border issues

INN: The latest on philanthropy for nonprofit news and media organizations

INN: Trends in news revenue

Investigating human rights in the Americas

Investigating in a small town

Investigating inequity

Investigating natural and environmental disasters

Investigating nonprofits: From bowl games to America’s worst charities

Investigating organized crime

Investigating powerful institutions, inside & out

Investigating religion

Investigating veterans issues

IRE by Design: Help shape FOIA reform & join the #FOIAFriday community

IRE by Design: Managing your manager and wrangling your calendar

IRE by Design: More investigative interview tips and tactics with Julian Sher

IRE by Design: The freelance dilemma: How to get your investigative story made

IRE by Design: Tilling the fields of agribusiness: You should do this. Here's why and how

Lessons from the field (and off): Covering the NFL and its intersection w/ local governments

Let’s get critical: How to look at information with x-ray eyes

Lethal lessons: Overcoming secrecy laws and other obstacles to covering the death penalty

Lies, real lies and fundraising figures

Managers track: Building and protecting the watchdog brand

Managers track: Bulletproofing stories, anticipating missteps and managing blowback

Managers track: Collaboration dreams & nightmares

Managers track: Creating a culture of creativity

Managers track: Placing your bets

Managers track: Watchdog teams and newsroom teamwork

Managing and juggling investigative stories

Mapping sea surges: A model for hyperlocal reporting on climate impact

Mastering the investigative interview

Measuring impact: Determining whether your stories make a difference

Measuring mental health care in your community

Mining documents to build your investigations

Mining immigration documents and statistics

No magic bullet: How to track and report on America’s gun violence epidemic

On the beat: Education

On the beat: Healthcare

On the beat: Law enforcement

On the beat: Local government

Open records: New challenges to access

Open source tools for news

Presentation as a storytelling tool

Quick-turn stories in emerging communities

Raising the roof: Investigating housing

Red light cameras

Search gold rush: Top 100 tips, tricks and tools to mine prospects

Sex crimes: Unraveling the facts about the offenders and the evidence

SHOWCASE - They’re watching you: Investigating the surveillance society and protecting your work from prying eyes

Small newsrooms, big stories: Doing data-driven investigations with limited resources

Spiked! When media managers can’t handle the truth

Story-based inquiry (part 1)

Story-based inquiry (part 2)

Teaching investigative reporting: Tips and strategies

The data-driven story: Conceiving, launching and taking it home*

The Get: Tracking down newsmakers like Edward Snowden

The Kingmakers: Tracking money and influence in politics

The oceans: A rich source for investigative stories

The other war: Cracking down on journalists and other whistleblowers

The parched west

The power of the crowd: Sourcing investigations through audience engagement

The year in investigative reporting

Ukraine: Investigating amid political upheaval

Unmasking the cheaters: From biogenesis to BALCO

When data don’t exist

Audio will not be available for these sessions:

Beyond barriers: How to get the story when you don’t know the language & culture

Broadcast: Consumer investigations

Broadcast: The attorneys

Campus coverage: Student loans, debt and aid

Clean energy: How to find and tell the best stories

Deep dive:  Audio storytelling

Finding stories in Medicare’s vast data trove

Investigating Hollywood

IRE by Design: Local public employee salaries: Requesting and analyzing public payroll

IRE by Design: Web scraping made easier with Helium Scraper

Legacy of the Chauncey Bailey Project

On the beat: Business

Ten things you should know about searching with Google

The media’s role in reporting wrongful convictions