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June 2022 Member Spotlight: Zshekinah Collier

Zshekinah Collier is Report for America Corps member covering education at WYPR 88.1 FM in Baltimore. Previously she was a producer for Disrupted, a weekly talk show on Connecticut Public Radio, and before becoming a producer she was the Radio Production and Storytelling Intern. In 2021, as a member of the Ida B Wells Society’s…

May 2022 Member Spotlight: Indrani Basu

Indrani Basu is a senior planning producer at the BBC’s Washington bureau. She has worked as a journalist in India and in the US. She puts people at the center of her stories and especially likes interviewing people who have different lived experiences than herself. Once, she even interviewed a cow. Where is your work…

Ida B. Wells Society, AP and Maynard  Institute team up on inclusive storytelling

The Associated Press, The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, and The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education announced plans to work together to improve diversity in newsrooms and news reports through journalistic and leadership training and more inclusive storytelling. The Inclusive Journalism Initiative is an effort by the organizations to move the news industry…

Alyssa Johnson named Ida B. Wells Society-Miami Herald investigative fellow

The Ida B. Wells Society and the Miami Herald are excited to announce that Alyssa Johnson will be the inaugural IBWS-Miami Herald investigative fellow. “The Miami Herald is pleased to partner with the Ida B. Wells Society on this extraordinary opportunity to support the mission of bringing more journalists of color into investigative reporting. Local investigative…

Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Intern Alumni Join Report for America 2022-2023 Reporting Corps

Three alumni of the Ida B. Wells Society’s investigative internship program will be joining Report for America’s 2022-2023 reporting corps. Zshekinah Collier, Luis Joel Méndez Gonzalez and Donovan Thomas will be among more than 300 journalists joining staffs of more than 200 local news organizations across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam.…

Meet our Summer 2022 Investigative Interns

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…

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…

     
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