Denise Malan joined IRE as a training director in August 2016. Previously, she worked at the Institute for Nonprofit News in a joint position with IRE for three years. She spent the first two years helping nonprofit news organizations around the country collaborate on data projects, then served as interim executive director before becoming director of training and data services, overseeing INN's training program that developed business skills among nonprofit news leaders. She was a newspaper journalist for more than a decade, covering government, education, politics, the environment and more. She was data/investigative editor at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in Texas.