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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.

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