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Ron Nixon to keynote IRE’s 2021 virtual conference

Ron Nixon, Ida B. Wells Society co-founder and global investigations editor for The Associated Press, has been announced as the keynote speaker for IRE’s 2021 virtual conference to be held from June 14-June 18. IRE said that Nixon “embodies the spirit of IRE through his commitment to mentorship, training and volunteering with the organization.” In…

May 2021 Member Spotlight: Kristal Sotomayor

May 2021 Member Spotlight: Kristal Sotomayor Kristal Sotomayor is a bilingual Latinx documentary filmmaker, festival programmer, and freelance journalist based in Philadelphia. Currently, they are in post-production on Expanding Sanctuary, an independent short documentary about the historic end to police surveillance organized by nonprofit Juntos and the Latinx immigrant community in South Philadelphia. Kristal is…

Donovan Thomas selected as the New York Times-Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting Intern

Donovan Thomas, a senior at Howard University, will join The New York Times’s Investigations desk as a summer intern. The internship is in partnership with the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting. Read more in this note from Ted Kim, The Times’s director of early career strategy, and Carla Correa, The Times’s deputy director of early…

Nikole Hannah-Jones to become Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism

Ida B. Wells Society co-founder and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and was just elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will join University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media in July as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism.…

Ron Nixon is Inaugural Winner of News Leader of the Year Award

Ron Nixon is Inaugural Winner of News Leader of the Year Award The News Leaders Association has named Ida B. Wells Society co-founder Ron Nixon its 2021 News Leader of the Year. The award was established this year by the News Leaders Association – an organization aimed at empowering journalists by offering training, support and…

March 2021 Member Spotlight: Rio Lacanlale

March 2021 Member Spotlight: Rio Lacanlale A proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Rio Lacanlale is a journalist and videographer currently based in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she writes about the criminal justice system and legal affairs for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In 2019, she helped lead an investigation into a private boarding school in rural Nevada,…

Ida B. Wells Society Makes Major Gift to Newmark J-School

Ida B. Wells Society Makes Major Gift to Newmark J-School The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting is donating $100,000 to a scholarship fund at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism aimed at supporting students who will bring more diversity into the field of journalism. Society co-founders Ron Nixon, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Topher…

February 2021 Member Spotlight: Colette Coleman

February 2021 Member Spotlight: Colette Coleman Colette Coleman is a writer, educator, and sociologist. After graduation, she began working with Teach for America in Los Angeles. During that time, she said that she witnessed firsthand how the K-12 system is failing students, especially those who are Black and brown and from low-income homes. Her experiences galvanized…

     
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