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IRE Radio Podcast features Marion County Record and AJC

September 23, 2024

(Sept. 23, 2024) — The IRE Radio Podcast has released two new episodes exploring recent developments since Investigative Reporters & Editors awarded its annual Don Bolles Medal and Golden Padlock Award at the 2024 IRE Conference.

Listen to the podcast episodes here:

You can find the podcast on Soundcloud, Spotify for Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and other streaming platforms. Read on for more information about each of the new episodes and additional resources and links to topics discussed.

2024 Don Bolles Medal recipient: Marion County Record

On this episode, host Nakylah Carter chats with the 2024 Don Bolles Medal winner Eric Meyer, publisher of The Marion County Record. 

The Don Bolles Medal acknowledges investigative journalists who have “exhibited extraordinary courage in standing up against intimidation or efforts to suppress the truth about matters of public importance.”

Victim to a police raid in August 2023, the newsroom of the Marion County Record received the 2024 Don Bolles Medal for refusing to be silenced. Just a mile down the road in the small Kansas town, the home of Meyer and his 98-year-old mother, Joan Meyer, was raided at the same time as the newsroom. His mother died the day after the raid.

Meyer and Carter unpack what happened with the raid, the importance of support from fellow journalists, and how he and his newsroom persevered. 

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2024 Golden Padlock Award goes to Georgia Department of Corrections

On this episode of the IRE Radio Podcast, host Nakylah Carter discovers how the Georgia Department of Corrections came to win the 2024 Golden Padlock Award for frequently and deliberately withholding public information. 

Guest Lois Norder, senior editor for investigations at The Atlanta Journal Constitution, explains her colleagues’ struggle to cover the government agency despite heavily redacted incident reports, suppressed news of worker arrests linked to contraband, undisclosed prisoner escapes, withheld video footage and more!

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Production credit: Graduate editorial assistant Nakylah Carter reported and hosted the episodes. IRE editorial director Doug Meigs edits the podcast. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Music credit: Thoughtfulness (De Wolfe Music) 

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