- Michael Alison Chandler
Michael Alison Chandler is an education reporter at the Washington Post. She was a 2001 Coro fellow in Public Affairs in San Francisco and a 2010 Fulbright fellow in Seoul, Korea where she studied education reform in one of the world’s highest performing systems. She is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She joined the Post in 2005.
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How racy, vulgar texts hurt Justice Department sting operation
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Del Wilber answered questions on how text messages might bring down the largest sting operation targeting foreign bribery.
