Georgia News Lab

The Georgia News Lab is an award-winning investigative reporting collaborative. It is a partnership between some of the top college journalism programs in Georgia along with two of the leading news outlets in the Southeast, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV, Channel 2 Action News. The News Lab’s dual mission is making the vital work of investigative reporting affordable for news organizations and increasing diversity in professional newsrooms. In training a new generation of diverse investigative reporters the News Lab helps news outlets better serve the public and bring marginalized voices into the public debate. The News Lab is widely recognized for its work. It was named the Grand Prize winner of the Online News Association’s Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education in 2015. The Society of Society of Professional Journalists has twice named the News Lab the collegiate winner of the Larry Peterson Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism. The Association of Opinion Journalists named the News Lab the winner of the Barry Bingham Sr. Award for 2016, in recognition of “outstanding efforts to encourage minority students in the field of journalism.” In 2016, the Atlanta Press Club awarded the News Lab its highest honor, the Impact Award. And in 2017, Press Club named the News Lab the inaugural winner of its News Innovation Award.