Investigative Reporting Workshop
Wesley Lowery is an accomplished journalist and educator currently serving as an Associate Professor at American University, where Wesley teaches investigative journalism and leads an innovative training-hospital style newsroom. Previously, Wesley held the role of Journalist-in-Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and served as a Contributing Editor for The Marshall Project. Notably, Wesley was a correspondent for 60 Minutes+, reporting on significant social issues and leading the paper's coverage as a National Correspondent for The Washington Post. Wesley's impactful work at The Post includes proposing and reporting on award-winning projects related to race, policing, and criminal justice, as well as contributing to major breaking news events. Prior experience includes local journalism at Boston Globe Media, where Wesley reported on the Boston Marathon bombings. Wesley holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University.
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Investigative Reporting Workshop
The Investigative Reporting Workshop, based at the School of Communication at American University, was founded in 2008 by longtime investigative journalist Chuck Lewis, who continues to report and write for the site and national publications. Our own staff and freelancers contribute to our site. In addition, IRW pairs graduate students as researchers and reporters with professional staff at The Washington Post and PBS FRONTLINE. Other media outlets have co-reported and co-published Workshop stories, including inewsource and KPBS in San Diego; WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C.; Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting; The New Yorker; The New York Times; and the Columbia Journalism Review. Two of our most recent 2020 projects, investigations into water quality — and racial, economic and political factors contributing to lack of clean water — have been co-reported by The Weather Channel and co-published by The Fresno Bee and the Tampa Bay Times. The Workshop has published more than 200 stories, won a dozen national awards and trained more than 160 students.