These days, there's more pressure than ever to rise above your competition. IRE can help put the punch into your daily reporting – with resources you won't find anywhere else.

With your membership, you’ll get:

  • IDEAS AND QUICK ADVICE: Free, online access to more than 3,000 tipsheets from leading journalists on investigations relevant to every beat (so you never have to start from scratch).

  • TIMELY TIPS: A bi-weekly email newsletter with the latest investigative ideas and tips from around the country, with links to members-only resources.

  • INSIDE INFO: Access to more than 23,000 archived stories in IRE's Resource Center, including "Getting the Story" reports detailing how entrants of the IRE Awards used documents, data and sourced to produce work – plus their advice to others pursuing similar projects.

  • NETWORKING: Make the connections for job postings and freelance opportunities, participate in members-only listservs and join IRE’s mentoring program.

  • DATA MADE EASY: Discounted access to ready-to-use data from IRE’s Database Library so you can spring into action the next time there’s a bridge collapse, a dam break or other breaking news. IRE will even do the data analysis for budget prices.

  • IN-DEPTH READING: Subscription to The IRE Journal (including past issues) with features about how journalists pulled off both in-depth and quick-turn investigations.

An overview of IRE member benefits

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Check out these tipsheets from the IRE Resource Center

IRE’s tipsheets give you a quick start investigating almost any topic. Created by speakers at our conferences and workshops, the tipsheets provide a roadmap to sources, Web sites, documents and how-to advice. IRE members can search the collection by topic and download PDF copies.