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.
