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…
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A Conversation With Ida B. Wells Society and Associated Press Fellow Serginho Roosblad
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…
June 2022 Member Spotlight: Zshekinah Collier
Zshekinah Collier is Report for America Corps member covering education at WYPR 88.1 FM in Baltimore. Previously she was a producer for Disrupted, a weekly talk show on Connecticut Public Radio, and before becoming a producer she was the Radio Production and Storytelling Intern. In 2021, as a member of the Ida B Wells Society’s…
Ida B. Wells Society hosts investigative capstone event for Riverside High students
The Ida B. Wells Society ended its yearlong partnership with Riverside High School with stories of the triumphs, trials and teachable moments of newsgathering from the student journalists. Members of the Society along with teachers, journalists and parents gathered for the capstone event at the Durham County Main Library on May 25. The evening featured…
May 2022 Member Spotlight: Indrani Basu
Indrani Basu is a senior planning producer at the BBC’s Washington bureau. She has worked as a journalist in India and in the US. She puts people at the center of her stories and especially likes interviewing people who have different lived experiences than herself. Once, she even interviewed a cow. Where is your work…
Ida B. Wells Society, AP and Maynard Institute team up on inclusive storytelling
The Associated Press, The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, and The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education announced plans to work together to improve diversity in newsrooms and news reports through journalistic and leadership training and more inclusive storytelling. The Inclusive Journalism Initiative is an effort by the organizations to move the news industry…
Alyssa Johnson named Ida B. Wells Society-Miami Herald investigative fellow
The Ida B. Wells Society and the Miami Herald are excited to announce that Alyssa Johnson will be the inaugural IBWS-Miami Herald investigative fellow. “The Miami Herald is pleased to partner with the Ida B. Wells Society on this extraordinary opportunity to support the mission of bringing more journalists of color into investigative reporting. Local investigative…
Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Intern Alumni Join Report for America 2022-2023 Reporting Corps
Three alumni of the Ida B. Wells Society’s investigative internship program will be joining Report for America’s 2022-2023 reporting corps. Zshekinah Collier, Luis Joel Méndez Gonzalez and Donovan Thomas will be among more than 300 journalists joining staffs of more than 200 local news organizations across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam.…
Meet our Summer 2022 Investigative Interns
The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting is excited to announce our class of 2022 investigative interns. This year, the Society partnered with nine news organizations to offer internships to 10 outstanding candidates. “We are so proud to be placing the second class of the Ida B. Wells Society investigative interns into some of…
Co-Founder Ron Nixon to give commencement speech at WVU
Ida B. Wells Society co-founder and global investigations editor for The Associated Press Ron Nixon will give the commencement speech to the spring 2022 graduating class of the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University. Currently based in Washington, D.C., Nixon has held a number of roles in the southeast region throughout the years.…
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