The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting
Upcoming Events
Journalists of all skill levels are invited to attend a two-day investigative reporting workshop on Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22 hosted by the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting and Alabama State University. The workshop will be led by Ida B. Wells Society founders Ron Nixon and Topher Sanders.
The training will cover topics such as pitching and managing investigative projects, tips for turning a quick hit investigative story, getting public records, and developing sources.
Sign up for the training here.
The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting represents a new take on a familiar mission. We are a news trade organization with a mission of increasing the ranks, retention and profile of reporters and editors of color in the field of investigative reporting.

The inaugural Ida B. Wells Society investigative reporting boot camp at North Carolina Central University in Durham.
The Society seeks to raise the awareness of, and opportunities for, investigative reporting among journalists of color and to foster the desire for social justice journalism and accountability reporting about racial injustice.
Although there are journalism membership organizations that provide training and skills building for investigative reporting and others that serve as advocates for diversity in newsrooms and media organizations, none of these groups adequately serve journalists of color who are interested in opportunities in investigative reporting.
Today, even as ongoing racial inequality roils the national landscape, too few of the journalists doing investigative reporting come from the communities suffering the most. The ranks of investigative reporters in the nation’s newsrooms continue to be overwhelmingly white.
Our mission is to do something about that.
