Kat Aaron

Kat Aaron

Project Editor
Phone: (202) 885-6353
kaaron@investigativereportingworkshop.org

Kat Aaron is the project editor for What Went Wrong.

Before joining the Workshop, she was a staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity, where she did investigative reporting on financial and economic issues. Until July 2008, she was the co-director of People’s Production House, a nonprofit journalism and media policy organization headquartered in New York City. From 2005 to 2008, she was a producer for Wakeup Call, the morning news show at WBAI 99.5 FM in New York, and was a contributor to Free Speech Radio News, Pacifica Radio’s national evening news program. Kat is also a fellow at the Media Policy Initiative of the New America Foundation, part of a cohort of academics and journalists exploring the future of journalism.

Kat has a B.A. in Economic History from Barnard College, and a Masters in Journalism and Public Affairs from American Unversity's School of Communication.

Kat tweets about economics, politics, journalism and occasionally food at @kataaron

Project Editor Kat Aaron gives a brief introduction to the What Went Wrong: The Betrayal of the American Dream project.

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Workshop Partners

Workshop Partners

We publish online and in print, often teaming up with other news organizations. We post quarterly updates to our BankTracker project, in which you can view the financial health of every bank and credit union in the country, with msnbc.com, and we co-publish stories in our What Went Wrong project with The Philadelphia Inquirer and New America Media. Learn more on our partners page.

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