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Andrew Tran Adjunct Instructor SOC Faculty

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Andrew Tran
SOC | General Academics & Research
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 and was a finalist for Investigative Reporting in 2022. He won the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2022.

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. 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. He has taught hundreds of journalists how to use R with two massive online open courses with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.
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Teaching

Spring 2025

  • COMM-260 Quant Methods for Journalists