Datasets

Our datasets One specialty of the IRW is building and analyzing datasets that did not previously exist, and helping newsrooms use those datasets to produce journalism.

Contribute

Support Real, Rigorous Journalism Quality investigative reporting that strengthens democracy and communities requires significant time and resources — and is increasingly scarce in the for-profit media landscape. As an editorially independent nonprofit newsroom, IRW is committed to filling that void …

Collaborate

Collaborate The IRW is always looking for professional journalists and newsrooms with which to partner. Past and ongoing collaborations include The Washington Post, WAMU-FM, Reveal News, the New Yorker, ABC World News Tonight, Politico, the Philadelphia Inquirer, McClatchy newspapers, Mother …

Staff

Editorial Wesley J. Lowery Executive Editor John Sullivan Senior Editor Aarushi Sahejpal Director, The Limit Lab Hayden Godfrey Post-Graduate Fellow Daniella Jiménez Post Graduate Fellow Madison Moore Graphic Design Fellow Hamed Ahmadi Graduate Fellow Elijah Pittman Undergraduate Fellow Summer Fellows …

Apply

Apply Academic Year Fellows During the academic year, the IRW is staffed by undergraduate and graduate students from American University’s School of Communication who are paid for their work. IRW also offers a limited number of academic year positions to …

About

About IRW The Investigative Reporting Workshop is an innovative, journalistic training hospital and editorially independent, nonprofit newsroom based at American University in Washington, D.C. The IRW consists of undergraduate, graduate student journalists and early career journalists who work under the …

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