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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 [...]

Akilah Johnson is a health policy reporter for ProPublica who co-presented (with Kat Stafford, national race and ethnicity reporter at the Associated Press) a virtual workshop on covering [...]

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold on the United States, it became clear the virus was having disproportionate effects on communities of color in a variety of ways – from higher death rates to [...]

Ida B. Wells Society cofounder Topher Sanders of ProPublica joined fellow ProPublica reporters Robert Faturechi, Ryan Gabrielson and OpenNews program director Sisi Wei to launch Microloans for [...]

WASHINGTON — Intelligence showing that the Islamic State is developing a bomb hidden in portable electronics spurred the United States and Britain on Tuesday to bar passengers from airports in a [...]