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IRE Radio — 109 episodes

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A conversation with Ben Welsh

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2024 IRE Awards: Behind the scenes

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2024 Philip Meyer Award winner: “How Thousands of Middlemen Are Gaming the H-1B Program”

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IRE Radio: “40 Acres and a Lie"

5

The quest for diversity evolves

6

IRE Radio: Supporting journalists with disabilities

7

Disability is part of every beat

8

Introducing the Knight Election Hub

9

2024 Golden Padlock Award winner: Georgia Department of Corrections

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2024 Don Bolles Medal recipient: Marion County Record

11

The legacy of Philip Meyer

12

A look inside Uvalde: 365

13

Finding stories on the education beat

14

Broken Breath Tests

15

Fighting Fentanyl

16

SPECIAL: Rediscovering Don Bolles

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BONUS: Telling an Unbelievable Story

18

Hooked on Fines

19

When Police Kill

20

BONUS: In The Clear

21

Inside the Missouri Investigative Journalism Workshop

22

BONUS: Always Be Curious

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Silenced by the Church

24

A Doctor Named Susy

25

The Graduates

26

Neglected in Memory Care

27

BONUS: Under Pressure

28

The Housing Authority

29

Storytelling with Sound

30

Reaching Behind Bars

31

A Pattern of Injustice

32

Staining The System

33

Harvey’s Exploited Workers

34

Denied Proof

35

A Psychic Scam

36

What Happened Next

37

The Dean’s Double Life

38

The Shooter

39

Homeless on the Road

40

The Examiners

41

Three Strikes

42

Vouching for Education

43

Eviction City

44

BONUS: The Rules of Undercover Reporting

45

A Workforce at Risk

46

America’s Lost Mothers

47

Sheriff Joe

48

The Adjustment Factor

49

Prison to the Pulpit

50

Hate, On the Record

51

Crisis in Coal Country

52

The Needs of a Nation

53

One Killer Algorithm

54

Beyond the Border

55

Not-So-Special Education

56

Afflicting the Powerful

57

The Human Face of Heroin

58

BONUS: The State of the FOIA

59

Making a List, Checking it Twice

60

Mobile Tech, Human Cost

61

The Killer That Got Away

62

Protect and Surveil

63

Fostering Disparity

64

Wards of Neglect

65

White Coat Criminals

66

Profiting from Prisoners

67

Regulated by God

68

BONUS: Tips from a FOIA Terrorist

69

Los Desaparecidos

70

The Disappeared

71

The Fairbanks Four

72

Life and Death in Lowell

73

BONUS: The Sounds of NICAR16

74

Chicago’s Secret Cash Machine

75

America’s Exploited Guest Workers

76

The Journalists and the Death Squad

77

BONUS: Spotlight

78

The Forgotten Dead

79

The Toughest Interview of My Life

80

The NFL’s Concussion Cover-Up

81

BONUS: Interviewing Liars

82

Ghost Schools

83

The Bite Ratio

84

ICE’s Secret List

85

Indiana Daily Student

86

Solitary to the Streets

87

BONUS: A Conversation with Laura Poitras

88

Biking While Black

89

BONUS: A Conversation with Seymour Hersh

90

The Story That Freed Hundreds of Slaves

91

The Problem with Witness Protection

92

The Reporter Who Brought Down the Governor

93

BONUS: A Conversation with Bob Woodward

94

The Navy’s Most Crash-Prone Helicopter

95

Product of Mexico

96

Killed by the Cops

97

Navigating Nonprofits

98

Housing Horror Stories

99

Hazardous Health Care

100

Policing the Players

101

The Dark Side of the Oil & Gas Boom

102

Scrutinizing Your Schools

103

Beyond Breaking News

104

Building Chemistry in Your Newsroom

105

Scandals at the VA

106

Cracking the Crime Stats

107

True Believers

108

FOIA Frustrations

109

Dealing with Difficult Data