Author: Chris Campbell

Reporting, research aids story development The Washington Post was awarded three Pulitzers this week, for national reporting on abortion; for feature writing about post-pandemic America; and for a biography of George Floyd in the category of best general nonfiction. The Post also was honored to have five entries announced as Pulitzer finalists. Former students Vanessa Montalbano, McKenzie Beard, Megan Ruggles and Carley Welch researched hundreds of court cases as part of their …

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Latest stories Two-part deep-dive into a toxic cloud in Texas A 10-month investigation by Public Health Watch and The Texas Tribune found that many state and federal scientists documented problems at an ITC chemical-storage facility long before catastrophe struck in 2019. The story, published April 26, details how this accident unfolded in Deer Park, a tight-knit city of 30,000. It is based …

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Despite the United States being the most prepared country to fight a global pandemic, the country led the world in confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. More than 1.1 million people died, and more than 103 million were diagnosed with COVID as of March of 2023. It became clear early in 2020 that the federal government …

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The Center for Public Integrity will steward and grow a powerful tool that puts public records at the fingertips of journalists across the country, thanks to support from the Reva and David Logan Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Accountability Project, launched by the Investigative Reporting Workshop in 2019, is …

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An increasing number of U.S. adults get their news from TikTok, a new Pew Research Center study found. Nearly every social media site experienced either a decline or stagnation in its share of users who regularly get news there since 2020 — except TikTok, which saw an increase. Thirty-three percent of TikTok users said they …

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Today IRW and the School of Communication at American University will honor Charles Lewis and his distinguished career. He retires from the faculty Dec. 31 and will remain at IRW as emeritus executive editor. Lewis, a tenured professor, joined the university in 2006 and created the Investigative Reporting Workshop in 2008. IRW began publishing in the spring …

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Data is everywhere but often inaccessible.  The Accountability Project is a collaborative effort to collect what is normally siloed public data in a single, searchable database. Our team gathers public data from federal, state and municipal agencies and standardizes it for our central public database. The TAP data team has encountered almost every variation in …

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Christina Lee MacGillivray interned at IRW while working on a master’s degree in journalism at NYU. She recently talked with managing editor Lynne Perri about her work in human rights and how her storytelling skills have grown. How has your international work in human rights influenced your journalism? Or how have your journalism skills enhanced …

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In an industry in which coverage of labor concerns often overlaps with personal worries about wages and benefits, journalists are increasingly turning to unions at news outlets nationwide.  About one-in-six U.S. journalists at news outlets are part of a union, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. The survey suggests, too, that unions are …

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Michael Kirk has watched the Hartford Courant wither for years.  When Kirk worked in Washington, D.C., more than 20 years ago, he remembered several Courant reporters covering Connecticut’s lawmakers from the nation’s capital. Less than a decade later, management at Tribune, Courant’s parent company, closed that bureau.  Today, Alden Global Capital owns Tribune, putting the …

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