MEMBER NEWS

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Jul/Aug 2004

Lex Alexander has been named enterprise/ investigative team leader at the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record. he was the assistant features editor and previously worked as an investigative-projects reporter and computer-assisted reporting specialist at the newspaper. * Paul D'Ambrosio,an investigations editor at the Asbury Park Press, Neptune, N.J., led the team of Gannett New Jersey newspaper reporters who won the $25,000 Farfel Prize for Excellence in Investigative Reporting for"Profiting from Public Service/The team included Jason Method and James W.

Prado Roberts of the Press, Colleen O'Dea of the Morris County,NJ. Daily Record, and Erik Schwartz of the Cherry Hill, NJ. Courier-Post. * Cheryl Carpenter was awarded a 2004-05 Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University to study leadership and business development. She is deputy managing editor at The Charlotte Observer. * Brian Covert has returned to Japan where he is an independent print journalist. A former newspaper reporter and UPI stringer based in Japan, he was most recently the coproducer of a live radio talk show on KHSU-FM (Arcata,Calif.). * Steven Crabill has been named special projects editor at The (Newark, NJ.) StarLedger. As part of his job, he will be responsible for the newspaper's investigative work. Previously, he was regional enterprise editor. * Randy Diamond has moved to The Tampa Tribune where he will cover the tourism industry as a member of the business news staff. he was a reporter at The (Bergen, NJ.) Record's Trenton bureau * Elisabeth Donovan, research editor at The Miami Herald, won the Agnes Henebry Roll of Honor from the Special Libraries Association News Division. The award honors her service to the organization's programs and projects. * Dennis Foley has been promoted to the county government/politics editor post at The Orange County Register. Foley spent 11 years as the politics editor at the Register before serving stints as the paper's ombudsman and county hall reporter. * Holly Hacker has been named higher-education reporter at The Dallas Morning News. For the past two years, she was a data analyst at IRE and NICAR. * Julie Jargon, a former staff writer at Westword (Denver), has been awarded the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in the National Reporting j category for a series on cases of rape and sex assault in the Air Force Academy. Jargon is now a staff writer for Cram's Chicago Business. * Louise Kiernan of the Chicago Tribune has been named 2004-05 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She will focus her study on the role of women in the U.S. workforce and its impact on labor-reform movements in the 20th century. * Kimberly Kindy has been named bureau chief of The Orange County Register's Sacramento bureau. Kindy has been an investigative reporter at the Register since 2001. She will continue to do investigative reporting. * Marc Perrusquia and Michael Erskine of The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal were winners of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers' Best in Business contest. They won in the medium newspapers special projects category for the series"Habitat: Borrowed Dreams." * Paul Raeburn has published a new book, Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children, basea on his personal experiences. * Jonathan D. Salant moved to Bloomberg News to return to the money and politics beat. Previously, he worked for The Associated Press covering transportation, communication and campaign finance. * Michael Weber, coauthor of the IRE beat book Unstacking the Deck: A Reporter's Guide to Campaign Finance, will lead the investigations team at the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press. he was head of the Center for Media Initiatives. * Alan Scher Zagier and Gina Edwards, of the Naples (FIa.) Daily News, were part of the team that won the Scripps Howard Foundation's Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting for "Deep Trouble," a series about the Gulf of Mexico.