Ira Chinoy | Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Ira Chinoy
Associate Professor
A.B., Harvard College

Office: 4100 Journalism
Phone: 301-405-8208
E-mail: ichinoy@jmail.umd.edu

Ira Chinoy has 24 years of experience as a journalist at four newspapers: The Washington Post, The Providence (R.I.) Journal, The Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune and The Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial. As director of computer-assisted reporting 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 has been on the faculty of the College of Journalism since 2001, first as a visiting professor and now as associate professor. He teaches courses in computer-assisted reporting, the use of archives as a resource for journalists, and news reporting and writing. He was also the College's first Scripps Howard Foundation Doctoral Fellow and is pursuing a doctorate in journalism studies.

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