- Ian Shapira
- Reporter
Ian Shapira is a features writer on the local enterprise team. He joined the Post in 2000 and has covered schools, youth culture, criminal justice, and technology. In 2007, Shapira was on the Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. Recent articles have been about one local woman’s Facebook posts that narrated her pregnancy and illness; and, children of CIA employees coping with the mysteries left behind after their parents’ deaths. Ian has an English degree from Princeton. In 2011, he earned a master’s degree in interactive journalism from American University.
The Bethesda community that no one wants to leave
Neighborhoods like Brookmont run counter to the personality of Washington: They’re filled with people who have lived on the same street for decades — or their whole lives.
A family divided and bereaved
Jennifer Matthews, a CIA operative and mother of three, was killed in a terrorist attack in 2009. Now her family is struggling with her critics and their own divisions.
Justice Department Web site inoperable after feds seize Megaupload
Anonymous, a group of Internet hackers, claimed responsibility for the attack via Twitter.
Bethesda residents seek changes in intelligence campus
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency off MacArthur Boulevard in Bethesda is slated to become something called the “Intelligence Community Campus -- Bethesda,” though precisely what will go on there is way too secret for nearby residents to know.
- A film by the son of CIA spymaster William Colby has divided the Colby clan
- Grad Katchpole, who sparked Bank of America debit fee protest, needs a job
- How a letter on Hitler’s stationery, written to a boy in Jersey, reached the CIA
- At memorial for Iran-contra figure Clair George, CIA colleagues’ loyalty endures
- A family’s hidden history is revealed after sale of their grand Georgetown estate
- Homers are nice, but a rubberized surface would be better
- Iran frees American hikers after two years
- Naval analysts honored for role in ’09 Maersk hijacking
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