Lynne Perri

Journalist in Residence
School of Communication

• Additional Positions at AU

  Managing Editor/Investigative Reporting Workshop
  
• Lynne Perri is a full-time professor of Journalism. She is a journalist-in-residence at SOC and managing editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a professional news organization focusing on transparency and government accountability. She teaches Online News Production, in which grad students create and produce the American Observer newsmagazine, and courses in visual journalism. She is a former deputy managing editor for Graphics and Photography at USA TODAY, where she conceptualized illustrations, graphics, maps and photo packages for all sections of the newspaper and website, and wrote occasional feature articles and book reviews. She was a reporter and editor at The Tampa Tribune, the Tallahassee Democrat and the Clearwater Sun, and has been an adjunct professor at Syracuse, Northwestern, the University of Maryland and the University of South Florida. She has led workshops for The Washington Post, the Knight Center for International Journalists, the American Press Institute and the Society for News Design.

• Degrees

  Bachelor of Arts, University of South Carolina; Master's degree, Medill School of Journalism