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The Refinery Disaster

Toxic refinery leaks imperiled Philadelphia residents.

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Foreign Influence?

Foreign influence?

‘It only took one pill’

‘It only took one pill’

‘We were right’

‘We were right’

Trump’s Trade War

Trump’s Trade War

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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.

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Charles Lewis, IRW’s founder and executive editor, is the co-author of more than six books, including, most recently, “935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity.”

Recent Projects by Charles
  • Charles Lewis receives I.F. Stone medal
  • “Why I left 60 Minutes”
  • Investigating Power
  • Journalists play key role uncovering corruption

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    When Cops Are Fired: How one attorney forces police chiefs to rehire dismissed officers.

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    Trump's Trade War: The inside story of President Trump’s gamble to confront China over trade.

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    Blackout in Puerto Rico: Examining the federal response to the humanitarian and economic crises in Puerto Rico; in partnership with FRONTLINE

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    The New Americans: How San Diego grapples with educating refugees.

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    The Accountability Project

  • The Accountability Project, a new resource for public data

    Seeing a need to streamline public data sets, we built The Accountability Project to put much of that data in one place so journalists, researchers and others could search across otherwise siloed data.

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    Site showcases powerful stories

  • Site showcases powerful stories and the reporters behind them

    Investigating Power is a history of breakthrough investigations that revealed news and changed the national narrative on many major topics since the 1950s, from war to health to civil rights.

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    Immigration Under Trump

  • How Trump is shaping immigration policy

    An interactive timeline examines President Trump’s use of executive orders to restrict access to the U.S.

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    Opiod Epidemic

  • The Opioid Epidemic

    In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation’s streets. A Washington Post investigation.

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