-
Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | September 28, 2011, 5:33 pm
In this week’s round-up: In Chile, telephone surveillance by police is invading the privacy of ordinary citizens; In Iraq, recruiters for extremist organizations increasingly target poor women to carry out suicide missions; and in the U.S. , Florida school officials redirected millions of federal stimulus dollars – meant to improve poor-performing schools -- to delaying layoffs and budget cuts. Read More
-
Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | August 25, 2011, 4:46 pm
In this week’s round-up: One of the world’s largest diamond mines, in Zimbabwe, is also a torture camp; in Colombia, people close the National Narcotics Agency are found in possession of confiscated goods from drug lords and the mafia; and western-made computer spy equipment is legally exported to authoritarian countries who use it to monitor human rights activists. Read More
-
New ICIJ Members
By Simona Raetz | August 15, 2011, 2:32 pm
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has added 15 new reporters to its roster of more than 100 journalists in 50 countries. Read More
Charles Lewis, United States, is a distinguished journalist in residence and founding executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University in Washington, D.C.
Charles Lewis, United States
He has been a national investigative journalist for 30 years, and is the founder of the Center for Public Integrity and its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Lewis left a successful career as a producer for ABC News and the CBS News program 60 Minutes and began the Center, which under his 15-year leadership published roughly 300 investigative reports, including 14 books, its work honored more than 30 times by national journalism organizations. He is the co-author of five books, including the bestseller, The Buying of the President 2004. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 and the PEN USA First Amendment award in 2004.
Lewis co-founded the Fund for Independence in Journalism in 2003, which he led as its president for five years, and Global Integrity in 2005. He has been a Ferris Professor at Princeton University and a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Facebook
Twitter
Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter and get the latest from our in-depth investigations, articles, interviews, blogs, videos, and more.
Your support will help us bring you more investigations, articles, interviews and news related materials relevant to U.S. politics and politics abroad.
Do you have important information for an investigative project? A question or comment? Pass it on to the Center.
- Investigations |
- PaperTrail Blog
- © 2012, The Center for Public Integrity®. All Rights Reserved. Read our privacy policy and the terms under which this service is provided to you.