Ian Shapira
Ian Shapira
Ian Shapira is an award winning journalist based in Washington, D.C. Ian Shapira is an enterprise reporter at The Washington Post, covering the Washington region and beyond. [1]
Education
Ian Shapira graduated from Louisville Collegiate School in the class of 1996. He went on to complete his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor's degree in English.
In 2011, he received a Master's degree in journalism. He is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts Warren Wilson College.
Career
He joined The Washington Post after graduating from Princeton University.
The Washington Post
Shapira began as a style reporter, and then joined the Metro section, where he spent nine years covering Washington's suburbs.
In 2008, he was a member of the Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for the newspaper's coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. In 2012, his reporting on a Renoir painting scheduled for a public auction led to the piece's FBI seizure and revelation that it had been stolen decades before.