Lynne Perri is managing editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop and a journalist-in-residence in the School of Communication at American University.
She directs or co-directs several projects at the Workshop, including editing the What Went Wrong series by Don Barlett and Jim Steele, which recently was named a finalist in the 2012 Scripps Howard Awards for business and economic reporting.
She co-designed the Workshop site and directs the graphics and photography for the site, working with both professionals and students.
Her college courses include teaching online news production, in which graduate students create the American Observer news magazine. She also teaches news design and graphics reporting. In 2008 and again in 2012, she team-taught a class on presidential primary coverage, which included on-site work in New Hampshire; students published stories and radio reports for the American Observer website and for WAMU-FM.
Perri co-wrote Interviewing: A Practical Guide for Citizen Journalists for the Knight Citizen News Network, published in March 2009, and an introduction to Mothers and Children, a National Geographic photo book.
She is a former deputy managing editor for Graphics and Photography at USA TODAY, where she co-directed art and photo coverage for more than 16 years and wrote feature stories and book reviews. She has been a reporter and editor at newspapers in Florida and Indiana, including The Tampa Tribune and the Tallahassee Democrat. She also has been an adjunct professor at Syracuse, Northwestern, the University of Maryland and the University of South Florida.
Managing Editor Lynne Perri on how the Workshop staff maintains a sense of community.
