Jaimie Dowdell

Jaimi Dowdell is Senior Training Director of Investigative Reporters and Editors. Since 2008, she's trained thousands of journalists in document- and data-driven reporting. She received the 2016 Spotlight Fellowship for Investigative Reporting and previously worked as computer-assisted reporting editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She received her master's degree from the University of Missouri.

Jaimi Dowdell joined IRE as training director in October 2008. Before that she was computer-assisted reporting editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for more than three years. In addition to her work at the Post-Dispatch, she taught a CAR course for Washington University in St. Louis. Previously she worked at IRE and NICAR in the Database Library and Resource Center while completing her master’s degree at the University of Missouri.