International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Journalist Search:

Michael Montgomery, United States, is an award-winning correspondent for American Radio Works, the largest investigative/documentary unit in U.S. public radio and a division of Minnesota Public Radio.

Michael Montgomery, United States

A veteran of radio, television and newspapers, Montgomery has reported from Europe, Africa and Latin America on such topics as human rights, war crimes tribunals, corruption, criminal justice and prisons. His work airs often on National Public Radio. Montgomery and co-producer Stephen Smith were finalists for the 2000 ICIJ Award for their investigative documentary Massacre at Cuska, an account of one massacre in Kosovo told through interviews with victims and perpetrators. The documentary also won a Dupont-Columbia gold baton, the top award in U.S. broadcast journalism. Montgomery began his career as a newspaper reporter covering the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Montgomery was a staff correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Los Angeles Times. As a Balkans-based correspondent for six years, Montgomery reported extensively on the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, including the siege of Sarajevo. In the late 1990s he worked as a television producer for CBS News in New York City. He lives in San Francisco, California.