by Evan Wyloge | May 30, 2017 | Announcements
TCampAZ Promoting civic data and government transparency in Arizona Last week, AZCIR, in partnership with The Sunlight Foundation, hosted TCampAZ, a local version of the Transparency Camp un-conference that Sunlight Foundation created more than a decade ago. The goal...
by AZCIR Staff | Apr 7, 2017 | Announcements
We’re living through a data revolution. To put it in reductionist terms: There’s more of it, and the tools to handle and disseminate it are easier to get and use than ever before. This presents fantastic opportunities, particularly in the area of civic...
by AZCIR Staff | Nov 28, 2016 | Announcements
PHOENIX – Longtime Arizona journalist and editor Jim Small is joining the staff of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting as its incoming executive director and editor, where he’ll oversee the Center’s journalism and business operations starting in 2017. Small...
by AZCIR Staff | Sep 26, 2016 | Announcements
The Arizona Newspapers Association recognized AZCIR’s reporting over the past year with top honors at this past weekend’s 2016 Better Newspaper Contest. In addition to being awarded second place for overall community service and journalistic achievement for daily news...
by AZCIR Staff | Aug 31, 2016 | Announcements
PHOENIX – The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, the state’s only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative and accountability reporting, was awarded a third round of operational funding from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation....
by AZCIR Staff | Aug 1, 2016 | Announcements, Elections
An explosion of “dark money” spending dominated Arizona’s 2014 election cycle, when groups that don’t disclose their donors spent millions, mostly to help elect now-Gov. Doug Ducey, two utility regulators and a handful of lawmakers. A new law...
