Voting Wars Investigation Receives Prestigious IRE Award

“Voting Wars”, an in-depth report on voting rights and regulations by the Carnegie-Knight News21 Initiative, produced by students from 18 universities, has  won the  Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) Award for Student Reporting in the large university category.

Ali Schmitz, B.S. Telecommunication 2016, was one of 31 News21 fellows who traveled to 31 states to interview hundreds of people for the project.

The IRE judges said the News21 students “matched or outpaced professional publications to show erosion in voter rights and scant evidence of voter fraud in states that had changed their voting requirements since 2012.”  Headquartered at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, News21 is a multimedia reporting initiative established by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

IRE is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting.

Posted: May 10, 2017
Category: Alumni News, College News, Student News
Tagged as: Carnegie-Knight News 21, IRE Awards