Why faculty members are fleeing Florida
By the time she took a faculty position with Florida State University College of Law, Mary Ziegler had earned a degree from Harvard Law School, worked as a postdoctoral associate at Yale Law School, and clerked at the Vermont Supreme …
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Dig into Maine counties’ stimulus spending The Maine Monitor A first-of-its-kind breakdown of how Maine counties spent the $261 million received through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Image by the Maine Monitor The story of mercy The Washington Post …
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Lynne PerriInterim Executive Editor • lperri@irworkshop.org Aarushi SahejpalDirector, The Limit Lab IRW fellows (Spring 2025) IRW fellows are paid reporting fellows, from American University and other colleges and universities across the country, who are partnered with professional journalists. Hamed Ahmadi, …
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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 …