Charles Lewis (journalist)

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Charles Lewis
Born30 October 1953 Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationJournalist Edit this on Wikidata
Employer
WorksWindfalls of War Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Pamela Gilbert Edit this on Wikidata
Websitehttp://www.charles-lewis.com/ Edit this on Wikidata

Charles Lewis is an investigative journalist based in Washington D.C. He founded The Center for Public Integrity and several other nonprofit organizations and is currently the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University School of Communication in D.C.

He was previously an investigative producer for ABC News and the CBS news program 60 Minutes. He left 60 Minutes in 1989 and founded the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a nonprofit news organization. In 1997, he led the creation of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which focuses on cross-border crime and corruption. CPI was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for investigative reporting, with ICIJ winning 2017 in the category of explanatory reporting for the “Panama Papers” scandal.

As a bestselling author, Lewis has been called "a watchdog in the corridors of power" by the National Journal[1] and "the godfather of nonprofit investigative journalism."[2]

The Wall Street Journal said that "with the founding of the Center for Public Integrity in the 1980s... probably did more than anyone else to launch institutional nonprofit journalism in America."[3]

He was a Ferris Professor at Princeton University in 2005, a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University in the spring of 2006, and is currently a tenured professor of journalism at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the 2014 book is 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity[4] In 2018, he was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence[5] by Harvard's Nieman Foundation.

  1. ^ "Charles Lewis | Guests". BillMoyers.com. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  2. ^ Glaser, Mark (2008-06-18). "Charles Lewis Tries to Solve - Not Bemoan - State of Investigative Journalism". MediaShift. Archived from the original on 2018-04-14. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  3. ^ Tofel, Richard J. (2014-07-16). "Book Review: '935 Lies' by Charles Lewis". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  4. ^ Lewis, Charles (2014-06-24). 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America S Moral Integrity. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-61039-117-7.
  5. ^ "I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence". Nieman Foundation.