The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting is excited to announce our class of 2022 investigative interns. This year, the Society partnered with nine news organizations to offer internships to 10 outstanding candidates. “We are so proud to be placing the second class of the Ida B. Wells Society investigative interns into some of…
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Co-Founder Ron Nixon to give commencement speech at WVU
Ida B. Wells Society co-founder and global investigations editor for The Associated Press Ron Nixon will give the commencement speech to the spring 2022 graduating class of the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University. Currently based in Washington, D.C., Nixon has held a number of roles in the southeast region throughout the years.…
Riverside High School students visit Raleigh’s News & Observer office
Students in Riverside High School’s journalism class, who are participating in Ida B. Wells Society’s inaugural high school investigative partnership program, got an up-close, newsroom experience at the News & Observer in Raleigh this month. The group of 19 students and teacher Bryan Christopher took a bus to the newspaper’s downtown office. For a number…
IBWS Co-Founder Ron Nixon visits UNC’s campus
Ida B. Wells Society co-founder Ron Nixon visited the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to share his work and experiences with students and staff in the School of Journalism and Media. Although not his first visit to UNC, this was the first time that Nixon was able to visit the Ida B. Wells…
Q&A with Mc Nelly Torres
Mc Nelly Torres is an award-winning journalist currently serving as editor at the Center for Public Integrity. Based in South Florida, Torres previously spent three years as an investigative producer for NBC6 in Miami. Prior to that, she worked as a consumer watchdog reporter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, education reporter for the San Antonio…
March 2022 Member Spotlight: Danny McArthur
Danny McArthur is the community voices reporter for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo, Mississippi. She writes about social issues and nonprofits. In her first year at the Daily Journal, she received the third place award for general news story from the Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Broadcasters and Media Editors and second place for general…
“The Legacy of Ida B. Wells: A Conversation with the Co-Founders of the Society” Recap
In honor of Black History Month and its fifth anniversary, the Ida B. Wells Society hosted a special evening with co-founders Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ron Nixon and Topher Sanders reflecting on the lasting legacy of the organization’s namesake. The discussion, held Feb. 23, focused on what it means to have Wells as the Society’s namesake and…
February 2022 Membership Spotlight: Jonathan Custodio
Jonathan Custodio is a fellow for POLITICO based in Washington, D.C. He was born and raised in the Bronx, NY, and enjoys playing chess and proudly indulging in his Dominican heritage with some pastelitos, bachata, and merengue. Where is your work featured/what organizations are you affiliated with? In addition to POLITICO, my reporting has been…
The Society announces summer 2022 investigative internship partners
UPDATE: The application deadline for this program has been extended until March 12. The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting is excited to announce the expansion of its investigative internship program this summer, offering watchdog journalism skills-building with some of the country’s top newsrooms. This year’s internship program has expanded to include 10 internships…
The Ida B. Wells Society Partners with The Diversity Pledge Institute
The Ida B. Wells Society is teaming up with The Diversity Pledge Institute in a new effort to create a sustainable model of recruitment and retention of diverse talent in investigative reporting. The Diversity Pledge Institute is a nonprofit dedicated to research, analysis and education related to diversity in journalism with a goal of solving the…
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