The Investigative Reporting Workshop, based at the School of Communication at American University, was founded in 2008 by longtime investigative journalist Chuck Lewis, who continues to report and write for the site and national publications.
IRW pairs graduate students as researchers and reporters with professional staff at The Washington Post and PBS FRONTLINE.
Other media outlets have co-reported and co-published Workshop stories, including inewsource and KPBS in San Diego; WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C.; Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting; The New Yorker; The New York Times; and the Columbia Journalism Review.