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Lynne Perri
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Professor, American University and Managing Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop
Washington
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Biography
Lynne Perri is a journalist-in-residence and senior professorial lecturer at American University. She is also the interim executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a nonprofit, editorially independent newsroom based at AU. IRW partners with legacy media and also works with smaller nonprofit media outlets. She teaches reporting, visual journalism and journalism ethics, and a history of U.S. investigative journalism. She co-created classes to cover national and state elections, and has traveled to New Hampshire with students every four years since 2008 to cover the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, where her students have reported for major news outlets. She was awarded Outstanding Service to the University Community for 2020 and also received the School of Communication's 2020 Award for Inclusive Excellence. Before joining American University, she worked as a reporter and editor at several newspapers, including the Tallahassee Democrat and The Tampa Tribune. She later immersed herself in visual journalism as a deputy managing editor for Graphics and Photography at USA TODAY, where she also wrote features and book reviews. She has been an adjunct professor at Syracuse, Northwestern, the University of Maryland and the University of South Florida, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Iowa, Ohio University and the University of Nebraska. She has led workshops for The Washington Post, the Knight Center for International Journalists, the American Press Institute and the Society for News Design.
Crime, social services courts, health business, public safety
Anything that involves cruelty to humans or animals.
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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. 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.
Missoula, Washington, D.C., United States, , United States
Founded: 2008