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Wesley Lowery Associate Professor Journalism

Bio
Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and one of the nation's leading reporters on issues of race and justice. He is the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, an innovative "training hospital" journalism non-profit based at American University in Washington DC, where he is also an associate professor of investigative journalism. The IRW trains a rising generation of journalists by partnering them with professional newsrooms to work on projects that fill crucial gaps in media coverage. He is also a Journalist-in-Residence at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and a contributing editor at The Marshall Project.
For the Media
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • COMM-419 In-Depth Journalism

  • HNRS-050 Honors Supplement: In-Depth Journalism

Spring 2025

  • COMM-462 Journalism Capstone