The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting partnered with OpenNews and ProPublica for another year to offer the Data Institute at no cost to a group of deserving journalists. Like last year, the 2022 Data Institute was held virtually. The weeklong program included daily classes and Q&A sessions with well-respected journalists from various news organizations from July 18-22. The Data Institute was co-founded in 2015 by journalists Sisi Wei and Lena Groeger and its mission is to address an equity gap and make high-quality training more accessible for all journalists who want to tell powerful stories. This year's class consisted of 12 fantastic journalists from all over the country...

Farnoush Amiri is a congressional reporter at The Associated Press, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Congress team, she was a statehouse reporter in Columbus, Ohio, through the Report for America/AP partnership. Amiri was born in Tehran, Iran, before immigrating to Southern California with her family at age five. Her first journalism job was as a stringer for her hometown paper, The Orange County Register. Amiri has a bachelors and master’s in journalism from New York University. On Capitol Hill, she covers the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack as well as abortion, gun control and other hot...

Serginho Roosblad was the first fellow in a new program developed in collaboration with the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting and The Associated Press. Roosblad held his fellowship at the AP as a video producer for the global investigations team for one year beginning June 14, 2021 before transitioning to the role in a permanent capacity. You can read more about his background and the fellowship here. Tell us a little bit more about your work prior to your fellowship at the Associated Press? Prior to my fellowship at the Associated Press, I was working as an independent...