UCG, which publishes newsletters about industries ranging from health care to funeral homes, has given a $10,000 grant to Investigative Reporters and Editors to help it revamp its web site.
Getter joined UCG in 2005 after a successful newspaper career at the Los Angeles Times and The Miami Herald, where she was a member of two Pulitzer-prize-winning teams. Her role at UCG is chief editorial talent recruiter and trainer for the company, which employs 700 people.
IRE’s Web site, www.ire.org, has more than 40,000 visitors per month and connects thousands of journalists, journalism educators and journalism students to IRE’s resources and training that includes a library of government databases and rich index of investigative stories and tip sheets. UCG’s support will help the organization make the site easier to navigate and use.
Read more here. Isn’t it interesting that the specialty business press is now doing things that the mainstream business press used to do?
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