Ira Chinoy, a visiting professor and Scripps Howard Doctoral Fellow, has been appointed as an associate professor with tenure by University President C.D. Mote Jr.

Chinoy brings more than 24 years of newspaper experience to the faculty and is one of the nation’s experts in computer assisted reporting. As director of the CAR department at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a 1998 series on the use of deadly force by the D.C. police. At The Providence Journal, where he was a reporter from 1981 to 1995, Chinoy was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for coverage of corruption and patronage in the Rhode Island courts.

Chinoy joined the Merrill College in 2001 where he’s taught courses in computer-assisted reporting, the use of archives as a resource for journalists, and news reporting and writing.