Investigative Reporters and Editors has launched a revamped Web site aimed at better serving current members and drawing future members. The site, while containing many of the features of the former site, is easier to navigate, offers more options for doing business with IRE staff and debuts some new features. There are more online registration forms and order forms. The IRE Store offers books, tapes and other IRE goods for easy purchase. Along with the popular job posting board, a fellowship/grant posting board is now available. The site will soon make use of members only areas allowing members to access the latest issue of The IRE Journal, reporter tipsheets, archived listservs, a personal information update area and more. Members will receive passwords in the mail before any members only gates go up. Work on the site will continue. Educators especially will be sought out to contribute to the IRE Journalism Education Center. Suggestions are welcome. Contributions are urged. E-mail should be sent directly to Deputy Director Jen Bruzzese at jen@ire.org.
Sarah Cohen, formerly the trainer for IRE and NICAR, has joined The Washington Post. If you have recently switched locales, let us hear from you. Send an e-mail to Brent Johnson at bjohnson@nicar.org.
Tom McGinty, a reporter with The Times of Trenton, has joined Investigative Reporters and Editors as its new on the road trainer.
McGinty will primarily teach computer-assisted reporting techniques at regional and newsroom workshops for NICAR.
McGinty, who coordinated the CAR efforts of The Times, served in beats ranging from cops and courts to local and state government and general assignment.
Reporters and editors will identify with this front line experience, said Brant Houston, IRE's executive director. Tom knows how to translate the training into terms news people will understand. McGinty earned a journalism degree from Jaca College of Syracuse University.