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| Print this article A journalism advocacy group has egg on its face following its decision to invite and then disinvite a phony “whistleblower” to star in its annual data reporting conference. Investigative Reporters and Editors had scheduled Rebekah Jones to appear Wednesday as a featured speaker on a panel titled “When doing the right thing gets you fired.” Jones claims, without evidence, that she was fired from the Florida Department of Health because she refused to manipulate the state’s COVID-19 data. However, Jones, whom Florida media, National Public Radio, CNN, MSNBC, and even the New York Times catapulted to minor celebrity, has now been removed from the conference’s agenda. ....
IRE announces winners of 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism Award The New York Times’ groundbreaking coronavirus tracking project took first place in the 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism Awards. Other top awards go to investigations that uncovered how deeply race and income determine causes of death in Massachusetts and how qualified immunity impacts excessive force cases against police. “In this difficult year, journalists and news organizations stepped up to fill the void of important information for the public,” said Sarah Cohen, a contest judge and the Knight Chair in Data Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. “In the tradition of Philip Meyer, they created data and analyzed information using social science methods to help the public understand the pandemic, racial justice and other key issues.” ....