Charles Lewis

Mr. Lewis is a national investigative journalist; a former ABC News and CBS News 60 Minutes producer, best-selling author and founder or co-founder of four nonprofit organizations, including the Center for Public Integrity and its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Lewis began the Center from his home, and grew it to a full-time staff of 40 people. Under his leadership, the Center published about 300 investigative reports, including 14 books, from 1989 through 2004, and won more than 30 national journalism honors. Named as “one of the 30 most notable investigative reporters in the U.S. since World War I” by the Encyclopedia of Journalism (Sage Publications; 2009), Lewis recently has helped to create the Investigative News Network of more than 20 nonprofit news publishers. He has been a Ferris Professor at Princeton University and a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University.