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Ida B. Wells Society hosts trainings in South Africa This September, the Ida B. Wells Society launched an investigative reporting workshop in South Africa, a global extension of the Society’s [...]

Sanders informs and engages in Knight Foundation program In a recent episode of the Knight Foundation’s Informed & Engaged series – “Black Voices: The Stories That Need to Be Told” – Ida B. [...]

Society connects recent Morgan State University grads to New York Times The New York Times reached out to the Ida B. Wells Society in need of help with a project tracking coronavirus cases on [...]

Morgan Minix reflects on OpenElections internship Morgan Minix, a senior journalism student at Howard University, participated in this summer’s OpenElections internship, a partnership with the [...]

The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting is being honored with the Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy — given by the Commission on the Status of Women within the Association for [...]

The Ida B. Wells Society is partnering with OpenElections to support HBCU student interns this summer helping to obtain precinct-level election results and convert them into data. The interns — [...]

The Ida B. Wells Society awards $1,200 stipends each year to two members of its chapter at Howard University. The funds support the students’ journalistic work with The Hilltop, Howard’s student [...]

Members of the Ida B. Wells Society may access recordings of recent virtual workshops via the society’s website at https://idabwellssociety.org/training/. Please share with your colleagues and in [...]

The Associated Press promoted Society co-founder Ron Nixon — acclaimed reporter, editor, data journalist and Ida B. Wells Society cofounder — to become its global investigations editor. Nixon now [...]

Ida B. Wells Society cofounder Nikole Hannah-Jones – a 2003 (M.A.) graduate and Park Fellow of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media – was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary [...]