About the
Workshop

About IRW

The Investigative Reporting Workshop is an innovative, editorially independent, nonprofit newsroom based at American University in Washington, D.C.

Undergraduate, graduate and early-career journalists work under the guidance of full-time professional editors and in partnership with professional newsrooms to produce investigative and enterprise projects. To date, IRW has partnered on hundreds of investigations and trained more than 275 students, many of whom have gone to to successful careers at The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, and the Toronto Star, as well as Inside Higher Ed, Bloomberg Law, Public Health Watch, the Knoxville News Sentinel, and the Baltimore Banner.