This story is a collaboration between The Barbed Wire and the Investigative Reporting Workshop— a nonprofit newsroom at American University that trains student journalists on in-depth reporting. When she was elected mayor of Houston in 2009, Annise Parker became the first openly gay mayor of a major American city. In 2014, Houston was one of […]
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The Investigative Reporting Workshop is an innovative, editorially independent, nonprofit newsroom based at American University in Washington, D.C. There, undergraduate, graduate and early-career journalists work under the guidance of full-time professional editors and in partnership with professional newsrooms to produce investigative and enterprise projects. To date, IRW has partnered on hundreds of investigations and trained more than 275 students, many of whom have gone to to successful careers at The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, and the Toronto Star, as well as Inside Higher Ed, Bloomberg Law, Public Health Watch, the Knoxville News Sentinel, and the Baltimore Banner. IRW's partnership with The Washington Post over many years included contributions to coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.