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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

The Investigative Reporting Workshop is a professional journalism center at American University’s School of Communication.

The Workshop conducts multimedia investigative reporting projects in partnership with major news outlets, such as msnbc.com, Frontline, and the McClatchy newspapers.

It was created in 2008 by Charles Lewis, who also founded the Center for Public Integrity.

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Primary author: Andrew Phelps. Main text last updated: August 22, 2011.
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