Andrew McIntosh has been named Investigations Desk Editor for the Montreal-based QMI Agency, a newly launched multimedia news service of Quebecor Media, a Canadian-based media company. Previously, McIntosh was a senior writer and investigative reporter with The Sacramento Bee.

Bob Mahlburg, who worked at newspapers in Texas and Florida, is now a financial investigator for the Florida Attorney General, Economic Crimes Division.

Several IRE members were honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards for excellence in broadcast journalism. They are:

Kristin Carlson and WCAX-TV, Burlington, for “Foreigners on the Farm.”

Mark Greenblatt and KHOU-TV, Houston, for “Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard.”

Tony Kovaleski and KMGH-TV, Denver, for “33 Minutes to 34 Right.”

By Mike McGraw
The Kansas City Star

This is a "Collected Wisdom" centerpiece story from The IRE Journal, Fall 2009

Jim Parsons, Kendall Cross and Michael Lazorko, WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, received first place, outstanding story, for small-market television, from the Society of Environmental Journalists, for their report on natural gas drilling’s impact on water supplies.

California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, announced its investigative team. They are: Mark Katches, editorial director, Robert Salladay, contributing editor, Lance Williams, senior investigative reporter, and investigative reporters Christina Jewett, Chase Davis, Erica Perez, Agustin Armendariz and Corey Johnson. Multimedia producers are Lisa Pickoff-White and Mark Luckie.

Debbie Cenziper and Robert O’Harrow Jr, both reporters at the Washington Post, have been named to the paper’s investigative staff.

R. Scott Moxley’s “Hate and Death,” a probe into a California white supremacist’s crime spree and brutal murder of a Vietnamese student, was included in “Best American Crime Reporting 2009.”

Karen Magnuson, editor of the Democrat and Chronicle, and Troy Turner, editor of the Daily Times, received the Robert G. McGruder Awards for diversity leadership.

Hagit Limor, investigative reporter, WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, was elected President-Elect of the Society of Professional Journalists.