Curriculum Vitae Updated 03.01.10

CHARLES R.E. LEWIS

Employment:

2010 Professor with tenure, American University School of Communication. Distinguished Journalist in Residence (August 2006 – December 2009), (courses taught: In-depth Journalism and proposed new course, International Investigative Reporting).

2010 Founding Executive Editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a research center within the American University School of Communication. Proposed the idea October 2007, which was approved by the University March 2008; raised $429,500 to begin operations in 2008, and donated and earned revenue in 2009 was $1,101,420, supporting a full-time staff of 11. The Workshop began publishing in March 2009, and to date has released seven major national investigative stories, partnering with or covered by msnbc.com, Financial Times, ABC World News Tonight, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, the New York Times, the Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers and others. In 2009, the Workshop forged a formal working relationship with the award-winning PBS Frontline documentary program. The first co-production of the Workshop and Frontline was broadcast nationwide February 9, 2010. “Flying Cheap,” about the safety and working conditions of regional air carriers, received glowing reviews on NPR, in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

2008 Founding President, the Fund for Independence in Journalism, Washington, D.C. (Begun in 2003, part-time paid beginning January 2005 through December 2008)

2005-2006 Fellow, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (Spring 2006)

Ferris Professor of Journalism, Princeton University (Fall 2005 semester) (Course taught: In-depth Journalism)

Consultant to the Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia (access to information and journalism issues)

1989-2005 Founder and Executive Director, the Center for Public Integrity (and its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the first working 2

network of 100 premier reporters in the world from 50 countries producing content across borders),Washington, D.C.

1988-1989 Consultant, Kroll Associates, Washington, D.C.

1984-1988 Producer, assigned to senior correspondent Mike Wallace, CBS News 60 Minutes, New York and Washington, D.C.

1977-1984 Reportorial Producer (off-air investigative reporter), ABC News, Washington, D.C.

1975-1976 Research Assistant, Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate

1971-1975 Sportswriter and clerk, Wilmington, Delaware News Journal newspapers (part-time during college semesters, full-time otherwise)

Education:

1977 Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, M.A. (with emphasis on U.S. foreign policy, Latin America area study and international economics; oral and written language proficiency in Spanish)

1975 University of Delaware, B.A. in political science with honors and distinction; (semester internship with Senator William V. Roth (R-DE) in Washington, 1974. Named to Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science honor society. Language study in German)

Awards:

2009 Honorary doctorate degree, University of Delaware

2004 PEN USA First Amendment Award “for expanding the reach of investigative journalism, for his courage in going after a story regardless of whose toes he steps on, and for boldly exercising his freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”

1998 MacArthur Fellowship (awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundaton)

1996-2004 Center for Public Integrity reports (initiated, final edited and approved by the Executive Director), were honored 35 times by national journalism organizations, such as Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and others. In 2004, 3

“Windfalls of War: U.S. contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan” won the George Polk award. In early 2005, the Center won the Edward R. Murrow award for best Web site (www.publicintegrity.org) in the United States, (small market category). Three co-authored Center books, published by HarperCollins, were that year’s Finalist for the IRE book award: The Buying of the President, in 1996; The Buying of the Congress, in 1998, and The Buying of the President 2000. In February 2007, the Center received a Special Citation by the Harvard University Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Prize judges for its body of “superb investigative work in the public interest.”

1988 Emmy nomination for “Foreign Agent,” CBS News 60 Minutes, for “outstanding investigative journalism” by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

1987 Emmy nomination for “First Jersey Securities,” CBS News 60 Minutes, for “outstanding investigative journalism” by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

1987 nomination for outstanding achievement in the “Documentary Script – Current Events” category, for “First Jersey Securities,” CBS News 60 Minutes, Writers Guild of America Television-Radio Writing Awards

1986 nomination for outstanding achievement in the “Documentary - Current Events” category, for “The Donovan File,” CBS News 60 Minutes, Writers Guild of America Television-Radio Writing Awards

Publications: Books and Studies

The Buying of the President 2004 (with other Center for Public Integrity writers)(Perennial/HarperCollins, 2004)(New York Times Bestseller List)

The Cheating of America (with Bill Allison and other Center for Public Integrity writers)(Morrow/HarperCollins, 2001)

The Buying of the President 2000 (with other Center for Public Integrity writers)(Avon/HarperCollins, 2000)

The Buying of the Congress (with other Center for Public Integrity writers)(Avon/HarperCollins, 1998)

The Buying of the President (with other Center for Public Integrity writers)(Avon/HarperCollins, 1996)

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Well-Healed: Inside Lobbying for Health Care Reform (with other writers)(Center for Public Integrity, 1994)

The Trading Game: Inside Lobbying for the North American Free Trade Agreement (with other writers)(Center for Public Integrity, 1993)

Private Parties: Political Party Leadership in Washington’s Mercenary Culture (with other writers)(Center for Public Integrity, 1992)

Under the Influence (with other writers)(Center for Public Integrity, 1992)

America’s Frontline Trade Officials (with other writers)(Center for Public Integrity, 1990)

Works in Progress:

“If Given the Truth” a web presentation of career timelines and five- minute high definition video excerpts from on-camera interviews of 27 important, national journalists of the past half century. Upon release, it will be permanently linked to the Center for Public Integrity and to the Investigative Reporting Workshop, and the 50 hours of raw interview material eventually will also be available for use in a feature film or television documentary and NPR radio documentary which will accompany the release of a forthcoming book. It will also mark the beginning of an ongoing Investigative Reporting Workshop work-in- progress, the nation’s first, national “truth to power” journalism oral history project (June, 2010)

“Chapter 27: Civil society, media and public journalism,” 5,400 words, in The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society, Michael Edwards, editor; Oxford University Press (2011). One of 39 invited/commissioned contributors from four continents.

The End of Truth: Power, the News Media and the Public’s Right to Know (HarperCollins; forthcoming, late 2011). This book, begun in 2005, explores the relationship between truth, public and private power and the national news media. In particular, it examines the origins and trajectory of public relations and propaganda, deception by government and companies and the truth-telling capacity of journalists and their news organizations. Final manuscript is due at the end of 2010. This book, when published, may also have a different title, If Given the Truth or another title.

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Articles and Book Chapters:

“Great Expectations: An Investigative News Network is born. Now what?” Columbia Journalism Review, September/October, 2009

“Purveyors of truth about the powers that be,” Society of Professional Journalists centennial anniversary book essay, 2009

“The future of watchdog reporting brightens as nonprofit groups organize a new network,” Nieman Watchdog, July 3, 2009

“An emerging Investigative News Network,” Investigative Reporting Workshop (in the “iLab” section), June 29, 2009

“10 Rules of the nonprofit investigative reporting center road,” IRE Journal, May/June 2009

“A Social Network Solution,” Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2009

“All the News That’s Fit to Finance,” (with Bruce Sievers), Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 12, 2009

“Seeking New Ways to Nurture the Capacity to Report” Nieman Reports, Spring, 2008

“Iraq: The War Card,” The Center for Public Integrity, January 23, 2008. Created and directed this project which involved 11 researchers, editors and Web designers for two and a half years, to produce a 380,000-word chronology and database which identified 935 “false statements” by eight top administration officials who mentioned Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, or links to Al Qaeda, on at least 532 separate occasions in the two years after 9/11. Co-author of the project overview essay, “False Pretenses.” The entire online report was presented at a National Press Club news conference, weeks before the five-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq; its findings were covered by more than 100 newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today, along with five major newswire services, and two dozen television and radio interviews (BBC, NPR’s All Things Considered, etc.) featured stories about and links to the project. “Iraq: The War Card” had the most one-day Web hits of any project in the history of the Center for Public Integrity.

“The Non-Profit Road” CJR (Columbia Journalism Review), September- October, 2007

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“The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism,” Discussion paper (17,000 words) Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (on its Website) April 2007

“Back to the Future” Nieman Foundation Watchdog Project blog, December 17, 2006

“Investigative Journalism Doesn’t Win Many Friends,” Nieman Reports Summer 2006.

“Laying the Foundation,” in Crossing Borders, Opening Doors: Selected Articles from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (Center for Public Integrity, 2005)

“What the Hell Happened?” Mail & Guardian (online)(published in Johannesburg, South Africa), June 17, 2005.

"A Culture of Secrecy" (Center for Public Integrity) (Web site global review/country essays, “The State of Investigative Reporting”), February 3, 2005

“Introduction” and “United States: Legalized Corruption,” chapters in The Corruption Notebooks (The Center for Public Integrity, 2004)

“Evaluating resources, methodology, potential results at planning stage” The IRE Journal September/October 2004: 21-23

“Press vs. White House: Has the post 9/11 tug-of war between the media and the Bush administration tipped the balance in favor of the power structure?” IPI Global Journalist, Third Quarter 2004: 12-15

“Political Mugging in America: Anatomy of an ‘independent’ smear campaign.” The Center for Public Integrity, March 4, 2004.

“Who bankrolls Bush, challengers.” Sacramento Bee, Feb. 1, 2004: E1.

“The Assault on Liberty (Continued): The Bush Administration Pushes to Expand the Patriot Act.” The Center for Public Integrity. Sep. 17, 2003

“Even in Wartime, Stealth and Democracy Do Not Mix.” The Center for Public Integrity. Feb. 12, 2003

“Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act: Center Publishes Secret Draft of ‘Patriot II’ Legislation.” The Center for Public 7

Integrity. Feb. 7, 2003.

“Relaxing Media Ownership Rules Conflicts with the Public’s Right to Know.” The Center for Public Integrity. Jan. 17, 2003.

“Total Information Awareness: A Chance Encounter Raises Questions.” The Center for Public Integrity. Dec. 17 2002.

“Freedom of Information Under Attack.” The Center for Public Integrity. Jun. 26, 2002.

“The Enron Collapse: A Financial Scandal Rooted in Politics.” The Center for Public Integrity. Feb. 22, 2002.

"Perspective; Charles Lewis." Wilmington News Journal Feb. 1, 2004: 11A.

“The GOP’s New Lobbyist in Chief.” Washington Post, Dec. 20, 2001: A43.

“What price justice? Influx of money undermines public faith in judicial system.” Dallas Morning News, July 29, 2001.

“Judiciary Should Let Sunshine In To Reduce Public Skepticism.” The Center for Public Integrity. June 8, 2001.

“World’s Journalists Should Collaborate in Age of Globalization.” The Center for Public Integrity. May 4, 2001.

“D.C. Culture: Clean? How About Mercenary?” The Center for Public Integrity. Apr. 20, 2001.

“How Bush Handles McCain Will Set Tone for His Presidency.” The Center for Public Integrity. Jan 23, 2001.

“Bush’s Rugged Road: Shadows of Big Money Present.” Newsday. Jan. 21, 2001: B04.

“Gore’s Failure to Respond Is Outrageous, Unacceptable.” The Center for Public Integrity. Oct. 27, 2000.

“Media Money: How Corporate Spending Blocked Political Ad Reform & Other Stories of Influence.” Columbia Journalism Review. S September/October 2000: 20.

“Colin Powell’s Critique: Part II.” New York Times. Aug. 3, 2000: A33 8

“’Reformer With Results’? Don’t Count on it.” The Center for Public Integrity. Aug. 2, 2000.

“Denial and Hypocrisy.” The Center for Public Integrity. Feb. 24, 2000.

“How George W. Bush Scored Big With the Texas Rangers.” The Center for Public Integrity. Jan. 18, 2000.

“Foreword” Citizen Muckraking, by the Center for Public Integrity/Common Courage Press, 2000

“The Old Lion” The Washington Monthly. September 1999: 56.

“U.S. must regulate legal defense funds of public officials.” Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Mar. 7 1999: AA4.

“Legal Defense Fund: Just How Legal?” Palm Beach Post Mar. 5, 1999: 16A.

“Big Money, No Oversight.” New York Times. Mar. 3, 1999: A17.

“Revealing State Secrets.” Columbia Journalism Review. May/June 1998: 46.

“A Small but Unsettling Scandal.” New York Times. Aug. 29, 1997: A23.

“Toxic deception.” The IRE Journal. July/August 1997: 12-13.

“Anything goes. It’s the Law.” New York Times. Mar. 16, 1997: A15.

“Not 'horse race' or 'beauty contest' '96 is money.” San Antonio Express- News Feb. 18, 1996: 4L.

“The making of an investigative think tank.” The IRE Journal. March/April 1996: 18-21.

“Let’s Break a Deal; A Year After 'The Handshake,' Still No Campaign Finance Reform.” Washington Post (Outlook) Jun. 2, 1996: CO1.

“Unreformed Candidates; Despite the public's disgust, politicians show little inclination to change the way campaigns are financed.” Dallas Morning News Feb. 26, 1996.

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“A Politician and His Patrons.” Christian Science Monitor. Feb. 20, 1996: 19.

“1996 not close to ‘Year of the Outsider.’” San Antonio Express Feb. 19, 1996.

“Not 'horse race' or 'beauty contest' '96 is money.” San Antonio Express- News Feb. 18, 1996: 4L.

“Money: No Minor Matter in Politics.” Washington Post Feb. 12, 1996: A19.

“Foreword” in Toxic Deception, by Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle and the Center for Public Integrity, Birch Lane Press, 2000.

“Favorite Son of a Gun; When Aiming for the White House, Phil Gramm Counts on the NRA.” Washington Post, May 28, 1995: CO2.

“In Sickness and in Wealth; How a Swarm of Lobbyists Cornered the Debate on Health Care Reform.” Washington Post Aug. 21, 1994: C2.

“The NAFTA-Math; Clinton Got His Trade Deal, but How Many Millions Did It Cost the Nation?” Washington Post Dec. 26, 1993: C2.

”Bill's Long March; When Big Money Talked, Clinton Retreated to George Bush's Policy.” (Co-authored by John Kruger) Washington Post Nov. 7, 1993: C3.

“The Big Buy: How Mexico -- Aided and Abetted by Big Business USA - Is Waging the Most Expensive Foreign Lobbying Campaign in History for NAFTA.” The Nation. Jun. 14, 1993: 826-839. (cover story).

“The Treaty No One Could Read; How Lobbyists and Business Quietly Forged NAFTA.” Washington Post Jun. 27, 1993: C1

“Perspective on Washington: Party Animals Graze with No Ethical Fence; Nothing Prevents the National Chairman from Double-Dipping- Trading Their Insider Connections for Politics and Profit.” Los Angeles Times. Oct. 2, 1992: B7.

“Mercenary, not public, service.” The IRE Journal. Spring 1990: 18.

“For want of a nail.” New York Times. Aug. 31, 1981: A17.

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Television Production:

“Foreign Agent,” CBS News 60 Minutes, Oct. 16, 1988 (producer; correspondent Mike Wallace)

“Divorce Lawyer,” CBS News 60 Minutes, June 26, 1988 (producer; Correspondent Mike Wallace)

“Victims,” CBS News 60 Minutes, May 22, 1988 (producer; correspondent Mike Wallace)

“Who Killed Penny Serra?” Feb. 18, 1988 (producer; correspondent Mike Wallace)

“Tobacco on Trial,” Jan. 3, 1988 (co-producer with Rich Bonin; Correspondent Mike Wallace)

“The Dali Fraud,” Dec. 13, 1987 (producer; correspondent Mike Wallace)

“Killer Trucks,” March 15, 1987 (producer; correspondent Mike Wallace)

“Beware This Hospital?” Jan. 4, 1987 (producer; correspondent Mike Wallace)

“First Jersey Securities,” Dec. 7, 1986 (producer; correspondent Mike Wallace)

“Fraud,” Feb. 23, 1986 (producer; correspondent Mike Wallace)

“The Donovan File,” Nov. 3, 1985 (producer; correspondent Mike Wallace)

“The Czar of Clinton County,” November 1984 (associate producer; producer Lowell Bergman; correspondent Mike Wallace)

“The Man Who Knew the Secrets,” ABC News 20/20, aired in May 1994, (co-producer with Stanhope Gould and Jay Lamonica; correspondent Tom Jarriel)

“The Strange Career of Gary Thomas Rowe,” ABC News 20/20, July 10 and 18, 1978 (off-air investigative reporter; correspondent Sander Vanocur, senior producer Wallace Westfeldt and producer Carol Blakeslee)

Reportorial producer (off-air investigative reporter) in the Washington 11

of ABC News, traveling to more than 30 states and two countries, and contributing exclusive, “ABC News has learned” information to award- winning investigative stories and spot news coverage of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, the Sandra Day O’Connor Supreme Court nomination, the collapse of the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, the ill-fated Iran-hostage rescue attempt, the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the 1980 presidential election (from advance, “reconnaissance” reporting about upcoming caucuses and primaries including Iowa and New Hampshire, sent via internal memoranda to ABC News President Roone Arledge and other top news executives, to the concession speech of President Jimmy Carter on Election night), the FBI ABSCAM investigation and subsequent trials, etc. Assigned in 1979 by ABC News Washington bureau chief Carl Bernstein to provide investigative coverage of the U.S. Justice Department. Investigated the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama church bombing and the 1965 murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo in Selma, in the context of the violent activities of FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe.

Public Speaking and Lectures

Invited speaker, about “A New Way of Journalism” (before an estimated 100 reporters and editors, consecutive translation, available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=jnpc#p/u/0/s_Bsf0nSmTc, major news stories in Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun newspapers, and the lecture will be reprinted in the Japanese quarterly magazine General Journalism Review in March 2010). Japan National Press Club, December 11, 2009, Tokyo, Japan

Keynote speaker, “A New Way of Journalism,” three-hour symposium (consecutive translation, approximately 150 people), Waseda University Graduate School of Journalism, December 10, 2009, Tokyo, Japan

Invited participant/speaker, panel on “Public- and Foundation-Funded Journalism,” two-day workshop entitled, “From Town Criers to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?” Federal Trade Commission, December 2, 2009, Washington, D.C.

Keynote speaker, “The Importance of Investigative Journalism,” Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) second conference for approximately 200 Arab reporters and editors from 14 countries, November 20, 2009, Amman, Jordan. Also spoke November 19 to about 80 students and faculty members, Petra University, Amman, Jordan.

Invited speaker, delivering the 24th annual Silha Lecture, entitled, “Unspoken Realities about Investigative Journalism and the Law,” Silha 12

Center for the Study of Media Ethics & Law, University of Minnesota, October 21, 2009, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Overflow audience of 325 people, Minnesota Public Radio and other local media coverage.

Invited speaker/panelist, Ethnic Media Training Workshop, co-sponsored by Investigative Reporting and Editors; New America Media; American University School of Communication; Investigative Reporting Workshop, "Paper and Database Trails" panel, American University SOC, October 17, 2009, Washington, D.C.

Invited presenter of the student essay award, second annual I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence ceremonies, American University, October 1, 2009, Washington, D.C.

Invited participant/keynote speaker, Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School conference (130 attendees from four continents), City University, July 17-19, 2009, London, England

Invited participant/speaker, “Building an Investigative News Network” special meeting of 38 journalists representing 20 nonprofit news organizations (was one of four organizers of the event; formally proposed the creation of an INN, including the name itself, initial draftsman of the Pocantico Declaration forming the INN), June 29-July 1, 2009, Pocantico Conference Center, Westchester County, New York

Invited participant/speaker, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) national conference (moderated a panel entitled “Alternative models for investigative reporting”), June 11-14, 2009, Baltimore, Maryland

Invited speaker, College of Arts and Sciences graduates, immediately following the 160th Commencement of the University of Delaware, May 30, 2009, Newark, Delaware

Invited speaker/panelist, "From Gatekeepers to InfoValets: Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism," conference hosted by the George Washington University School of Media & Public Affairs, organized by the University of Missouri Reynolds Journalism Institute, May 27, 2009, Washington, D.C.

Invited participant/speaker, “The Future of Journalism,” a discussion meeting at the National Academies (the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education) chaired by Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, May 21, 2009, Washington, D.C.

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Invited participant/speaker, Duke Conference on Nonprofit Media, held May 4-5, 2009, at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke University, Durham, NC

Invited speaker, Knight-Wallace Fellowship program, University of Michigan, April 7, 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Panelist, “The State of Investigative Reporting: “What is the Answer?” (Other panelists included Bill Keller of the New York Times and David Fanning of PBS Frontline). Third annual Logan Symposium, April 3-5, 2009, at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Co-organizer, co-sponsor and speaker, “Watchdog Conference: Enlarging the spaces for investigative journalism: Countering threats, supporting innovations,” held March 12-13, 2009, at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY

Panelist in conjunction with the presentation of the first annual I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence, sponsored by the Harvard Nieman Foundation and held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., October 7, 2008.

Participant/speaker at the Sixth Austin Forum, at the University of Texas Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, Austin, Texas, which focused on investigative journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean. September 19-20, 2008 (35 journalists and others from 14 countries).

Invited speaker, opening panel, “What happened to journalism after 9/11,” Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Lillehammer, Norway, September 11-14, 2008 (500 reporters, 87 countries).

Moderator, Showcase panel: “New directions for investigative journalism,” Investigative Reporters and Editors national conference, Miami, Florida, June 6-8, 2008 (800 reporters).

Co-moderator of the 2008 Breaux Symposium, “New Models for News,” held April 25-26, 2008 at the Manship School of Mass Communication and the Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. Also authored the Introduction discussion paper.

Invited participant/speaker, Philip Meyer Symposium, “Raising the Ante: The Internet’s Impact on Journalism Education and Existing Theories of Mass Communication,” March 27-28, 2008 in honor of Philip Meyer, retiring Knight Chair in Journalism, University of North Carolina (Chapel 14

Hill, NC). Authored a discussion paper, “Goodbye, Mr. Gates: Are the gatekeepers irrelevant now that the fences are down.”

Invited keynote speaker: Beginning of the fifth annual meeting of FOPEA/Foro de Periodismo Argentino (the national association of journalists in Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2007

Invited speaker: “Government Accountability and a Free Press,” featured luncheon speaker and evening panel discussant, hosted by the College of Public Affairs and Administration and the Center for State Policy and Leadership, University of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois, November 7, 2007

Invited lecture: “How Do Democracies Deal with Corruption?” Conference co-sponsored by The American University of Cairo and the American University, Washington, D.C., entitled “Are Islam and Democracy Compatible?” Cairo, Egypt, November 4, 2007. (Paper requested and submitted)

Invited lecture: “Contemporary Issues in Public Administration,” Graduate School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, September 12, 2007

Invited discussant, “Showcase Panel: Keeping investigative journalism thriving: Strategies for the future,” Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) national conference, Phoenix, Arizona, June 8, 2007

Invited discussant, “Roundtable: Business Models for Independent Investigative Journalism Organizations,” Global Investigative Journalism conference, Toronto, Canada, May 25, 2007

Invited participant, “Access to Information: Conference Preparatory Meeting,” The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, May 21-22, 2007

Invited discussant, The Goldsmith Awards Seminar, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 14, 2007 (The nonprofit organization I had founded and directed for 15 years was given a Special Citation for its body of work at the Goldsmith Awards the evening before. Along with the current Center for Public Integrity executive director, I formally accepted it on behalf of the organization).

Invited lecture: “Under Siege: Truth, Journalism and an Informed Citizenry,” Fred W. Smith Ethics Seminar lecture 2007, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, March 1, 2007

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Invited participant, “Think Invent Act – A Conversation at the Reynolds School of Journalism,” University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, February 28, 2007

Interviewer of author Alicia Shepard, “Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate,” reception/discussion/film screening (All the President’s Men), American University School of Communication, November 10, 2006

Speaker, “You Call this Journalism? The Emerging Landscape of News” panel, part of semi-annual Integrated Media Association conference at American University School of Communication (Center for Social Media), November 9, 2006

Invited participant, “The Future of News,” conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 13-14, 2006

Invited participant, “21st Century News: Challenges and Opportunities for Public-Minded Media in the New-Media Age,” workshop sponsored by American University School of Communication (Center for Social Media), October 4, 2006

Keynote speaker, Summer School and (European) Regional Conference on investigative journalism, sponsored by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and City University, London, England, July 22, 2006 (The other keynote speaker was Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered in Moscow weeks later).

“Can Free Media Sustain Democracy?” panel speaker, “Democracy and Independence: Sharing News and Information in a Connected World” Media Giraffe Project national conference, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), June 29, 2006

“The future of investigative journalism, nonprofits, blogs and corporations,” one of two panelists, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) national conference, Ft. Worth, Texas, June 17, 2006

Invited presenter, national security, secrecy and the news media workshop held for the Carnegie-Knight journalism deans (Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, University of California (Berkeley) and University of Southern California Annenberg School), John Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 1, 2006

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Invited luncheon speaker, New England Political Science Association annual meeting, Portsmouth, NH, May 5, 2006

“Facts under Siege,” luncheon speech, national Freedom of Information Summit conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 21, 2006

Invited speaker, national annual conference, organized by Stiftelsen for en Kritisk og Undersøkende Presse (SKUP) – The Norwegian national foundation for investigative journalism, attended by 600 reporters and editors. Tønsberg, Norway, March 21, 2006

Invited speaker, First International Conference on Investigative Journalism of the Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism (ABRAJI), attended by 300 journalists, students and teachers, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 27-29, 2005

Invited speaker, international conference on “The Changing Role of the State: Visions and Experiences,” sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Issue paper requested and submitted on “Public Integrity.” Cairo, Egypt, April 23-25, 2005

Scores of past lectures and other public presentations on ethics, political influence, corruption or investigative reporting throughout the United States and around the world. Between 1989 and 2004, conducted 35 news conferences at the National Press Club in Washington. Guest lectures at more than two dozen major colleges and universities, including American, University of California at Berkeley, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), Cambridge (England), Columbia, Delaware, Duke, Florida Atlantic, Georgetown, George Washington, Harvard, Illinois, Ithaca, Louisiana State University (LSU), Marquette, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York (NYU), North Carolina, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Princeton, University of Southern California (USC), Stanford, Trinity College (San Antonio, TX), Tufts, Virginia, US Military Academy (West Point) and Wisconsin.

International speaking (or field research) on corruption or journalism in Argentina, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Norway, Russia, Sweden and South Africa. In early 1997, traveled to the troubled Ferghana Valley region of Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan in Central Asia as part of a Council on Foreign Relations conflict-prevention fact-finding mission.

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News Media:

Hundreds of media interviews about the influence of money on politics, abuses of power and other ethics-related issues at the state, national and international level. Interviewed by and quoted in such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, the Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Des Moines Register, San Diego Union Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, Seattle Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, the Guardian, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Business Week and many others.

Numerous live and taped interviews with the electronic media, including NBC’s The Today Show and Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, Nightline, CBS News 60 Minutes, Evening News, and Morning News, CNN, C-SPAN (conducted 35 news conferences at the National Press Club in Washington as Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, many broadcast in their entirety) general coverage and Washington Journal and Booknotes with Brian Lamb, Fox, PBS Frontline, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer and NOW with Bill Moyers, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Fresh Air, On the Media, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Imus in the Morning, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, ZDF (Germany), Australian Broadcasting, Nippon (Japan), South African Broadcasting Corporation, CBC (Canada), CCTV (China), etc.

Interviewed for various feature film documentaries, including Orwell Rolls in His Grave (2003); Why We Fight (2005); Iraq For Sale (2006)

Boards of Directors:

The Center for Public Integrity (2009-; prior service 1989-2004 including chair 1989-1999); The Fund for Investigative Journalism (1996- ); The Investigative News Network (2009-); The Watchdog Institute, San Diego State University (President; 2009-); Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Wisconsin (Vice President; 2008- ); Board, The News Literacy Project (2008- ); Board, The Fund for Independence in Journalism (2003-2008); Board, Management Assistance Group (2000- 2002).

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Professional Affiliations:

Advisory Board, Canadian Centre for Investigative Journalism; Advisory Board, New England Center for Investigative Reporting; International Advisor, Open Democracy Advice Centre (South Africa); Co-Founder and until 2010, Advisory Board member, Global Integrity; Advisory Board member, Sunlight Foundation; member, Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award Selection Committee (sponsored by Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois). Advisory Board, Kaiser Health News/Kaiser Family Foundation; Member: Academy of Political Science, Association for Educators In Journalism and Mass Communication; Committee of Concerned Journalists, Committee to Protect Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, National Press Club, PEN USA, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Society of Professional Journalists.