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.

Latest by Ian Shapira

Barbara Robbins: A slain CIA secretary’s life and death

Barbara Robbins: A slain CIA secretary’s life and death

It took the CIA decades to publicly acknowledge Barbara Robbins as one of their own. But the first CIA woman to die in the line of duty has long been an object of curiosity within the agency.

Coffee debate at farmers markets

Coffee debate at farmers markets

Purveyors are finding tight restrictions against coffee and other non-local specialty foods.

In N.Va., white student leads school’s black union

In N.Va., white student leads school’s black union

At Alexandria’s Thomas Jefferson High, club members say senior’s leadership has been a positive for a school with few African Americans, Hispanics.

Spy vs. spouse: The pain is covert, too

Spy vs. spouse: The pain is covert, too

A couple’s divorce offers insight into the deep strains that working for the CIA can exert on marriages. Divorces involving spies are often just as clandestine as their work.