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April 9, 2021

Topher Sanders and ProPublica Team Win Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting

Topher Sanders and ProPublica Team Win Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting Topher Sanders, Ida B. Wells Society co-founder, was among the team of investigative reporters to receive the 2021 Al Nakkula Award for their work on ProPublica’s 10-part series “The NYPD Files,” which uncovered abuse and impunity inside the New York Police Department. The…

Article by Christine Lee / Founder News

April 2, 2021

Nikole Hannah-Jones to be inducted at NC Media & Journalism Hall of Fame

Ida B. Wells Society co-founder and Pulitzer Prize-winning The New York Times Magazine journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will be among the list of acclaimed honorees inducted into the NC Media & Journalism Hall of Fame. The ceremony takes place virtually 6 p.m. April 9 and recognizes diverse individuals with ties to the state who have had…

Article by Christine Lee / Founder News

March 16, 2021

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,…

Article by Christine Lee / Member Spotlight

February 19, 2021

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…

Article by Christine Lee / Society News

February 17, 2021

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…

Article by Christine Lee / Member Spotlight

February 12, 2021

Ron Nixon to be keynote speaker at 2021 FOIAFest

Ida B. Wells Society co-founder and acclaimed global investigations editor for the Associated Press Ron Nixon will headline this year’s FOIAFest presented by the Chicago Headline Club. The conference, named after the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), focuses on public records reporting and will be held virtually this year from Feb. 19 to Feb. 21.…

Article by Christine Lee / Founder News

February 4, 2021

Reaching Back, Looking Forward: CABJ Invites Nikole Hannah-Jones for BHM

EDITORS’ NOTE: When we learned that the Carolina Association of Black Journalists (CABJ) had extended an invitation to Pulitzer Prize-winning alumna Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (M.A.) and that Hannah-Jones agreed to virtually visit, we asked Ruth Etiesit Samuel, a senior at UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and social media chair for CABJ, to write…

Article by Courtney Mitchell / Uncategorized

January 26, 2021

Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting welcomes program coordinator Christine Lee

Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting welcomes program coordinator Christine Lee Where are you from, and where did you go to school? I was born in New Jersey, and most of my extended family still lives there, but I grew up in Greensboro, NC. I earned my bachelor’s degree in psychology from Appalachian State…

Article by Christine Lee / Society News

January 26, 2021

Ida B. Wells Society kicks off New Year line-up with an examination of federal Paycheck Protection Program

Ida B. Wells Society kicks off New Year line-up with an examination of federal Paycheck Protection Program The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting kicked off its first workshop of 2021 with a close look at the federal government’s fraught Paycheck Protection Program. While the program – often referred to as PPP – was…

Article by Courtney Mitchell / Uncategorized

November 1, 2020

Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting receives record $1 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

At a time when the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and tumultuous political climate underscore the importance of vigorous investigative journalism, a new $1 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will support the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting in its efforts to strengthen and support the work of journalists of color seeking to…

Article by Courtney Mitchell / Uncategorized

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