A TEACHING LAB DEDICATED TO INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Meet the Students
Our mission follows the Missouri Method of learning by doing. WWG student researchers work with experienced investigative journalists writing books for major publishers.
The Students 2025-2026
Cayli Yanagida
Cayli Yanagida is a second-year graduate student with an emphasis in cross-platform editing and producing at the University of Missouri.
Maggie LeBeau
Maggie LeBeau is a sophomore at the University of Missouri studying journalism and history.
Laine Cibulskis
Laine Cibulskis is a senior studying journalism and economics at the University of Missouri. She covered international trade in Brussels for MLex in the fall of 2024.
Ivy Reed
Ivy Reed is a junior at the University of Missouri majoring in journalism and women and gender studies.
Amber Roldan
Amber Roldan is a senior in the accelerated masters program studying reporting and writing with a women and gender studies minor.
Cristal Sanchez
Cristal Sanchez is a bilingual reporter at the University of Missouri focused on solutions journalism and covering marginalized communities.
Students 2024 – 2025
Paige Gerling
Paige Gerling is a senior at the University of Missouri studying journalism and political science.
Bryan Chou
Bryan Chou is a second-year Master’s student at the University of Missouri studying data and investigative reporting.
Anna Colletto
Anna Colletto is now a reporter at the Tulsa Flyer, a new nonprofit newsroom in Oklahoma.
Students 2023
Valerie Nava
Valerie Nava is now an education lab reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. She reports on K-12 and higher education.
Evy Lewis
Evy Lewis is now working full-time as a daily reporter at the Daily Southtown, a subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune.
Sophia Anderson
Sophia is a sophomore at the University of Missouri studying journalism and sociology.
Jocelyn Heimsoth
Jocelyn Heimsoth is a senior at the University of Missouri double-majoring in Journalism and Environmental Science, studying environmental journalism.
Anna Colletto
Anna Colletto is now a reporter at the Tulsa Flyer, a new nonprofit newsroom in Oklahoma.
Students 2022
Kelly Dereuck
Kelly Dereuck is a graduate student researching the use of public records to report on private equity.
Beatrice Bankauskaite
Beatrice Bankauskaite is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism.
Teghan Simonton
Teghan Simonton is a graduate student at the University of Missouri studying investigative reporting.
Mavis Chan
Mavis Chan is a senior majoring in journalism and
political science at the University of Missouri.
Students 2021
Students 2020
Peng “Fion” Chen
Working with P.J. Huffstutter to build a unique, searchable database of farm debt and loan defaults across America.
Steven Garrison
Working with Pamela Colloff to investigate the criminal justice system in Missouri and other states.
Kelly Dereuck
Kelly Dereuck is a graduate student researching the use of public records to report on private equity.
Lessons from the Field: Thursday, April 2, 2026
New York Times Magazine Writer Caleb Gayle
Lessons from the Field: Thursday, March 12, 2026
Michelle García, Winner of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize
Ted Genoways
Food & Environment Reporting Network
February 2026
Dan Kaufman
The New York Times Magazine
January 2026