About The Center for Public Integrity

1. Our Mission
   The mission of the Center for Public Integrity is to produce original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make institutional power more transparent and accountable. To pursue its mission, the Center:

   • Generates high-quality, accessible investigative reports, databases, and contextual analysis on issues of public importance.
   • Disseminates work to journalists, policymakers, scholars, and citizens using a combination of digital, electronic, and print media.
   • Educates, engages, and empowers citizens with the tools and skills they need to hold governments and other institutions accountable.
   • Organizes and supports investigative journalists around the world who apply the Center’s values, mission, and standards to cross-border projects.
   • Remains independent by building a strong and sustainable financial base of support, including a community of committed individuals and foundations.

2. Our Organization
   The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern. The Center is non-partisan and non-advocacy. We are committed to transparent and comprehensive reporting both in the United States and around the world.

   The Center is located at 910 17th Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20006. The telephone number is (202) 466-1300.

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3. Our People
   Bill Buzenberg is the Center’s fourth executive director, joining us in December 2006. He has been a journalist and news executive at newspapers and in public radio for more than 35 years. Most recently, as senior vice president of news at American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio, Buzenberg launched such programming initiatives as American RadioWorks, public radio’s major documentary and investigative journalism unit, and Speaking of Faith, public radio’s signature program on religion. He also began Public Insight Journalism, an innovative use of technology to draw knowledge from the audience. As vice president of news and information at National Public Radio from 1990 to 1997, he was responsible for launching Talk of the Nation, as well as the expansion of All Things Considered and the extension of NPR’s newscasts services to 24 hours a day. During his tenure, the NPR News Division was honored with 9 DuPont-Columbia Batons and 10 Peabody Awards. He has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award, public radio’s highest honor.

   • Board of Directors
   • Charles Lewis, Founder
   • Bill Buzenberg, Executive Director

4. Our Work
   Among the Center’s “firsts,” was the disclosure of the use of the Lincoln Bedroom for political contributors in the Clinton administration (“Fat Cat Hotel”): the posting on the Center’s website of the secret Patriot II Act draft legislation; and reporting that Halliburton was the largest private contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan (“Windfalls of War”). The Center’s quadrennial book project, The Buying of the President, was a best-seller in 2004 and work is well underway for 2008 at www.buyingofthepresident.org.

   The National Journal referred to the Center as a “watchdog in the corridors of power”; Kevin Phillips wrote: “No other investigative organization shines so many probing flashlights into so many Washington dirty-laundry baskets”; the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said the Center is “an indispensable truth-teller in a treacherous time”; and the late John Kenneth Galbraith observed, “Nothing is so inconvenient, so unwelcome and often so powerful as the cold truth. This, the [Center] for our pleasure and for our benefit provides.”

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