Andrew Tran Adjunct Instructor School of Communication

Bio: Andrew Ba Tran is an investigative data reporter for the Washington Post. He shared in winning the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2018 for the coverage of candidate Roy Moore's alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls and subsequent efforts to undermine the Post's journalism that exposed it.

Tran previously was a data editor at The Connecticut Mirror's TrendCT.org, Prior to that, he was a data producer at The Boston Globe, where he contributed to the newsroom's Pulitzer Prize award-winning coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and aftermath. He's worked in newsrooms at The Virginian-Pilot and the Sun-Sentinel. He’s a Metpro Fellow, a Chips Quinn Scholar, and a graduate of the University of Texas.

He's taught data journalism as a Koeppel Fellow at Wesleyan University, and is an advocate for open data and reproducible research.

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