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Chuck Lewis
Director, The Fund for Independence in Journalism
Charles Lewis is a Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence at American University in Washington, D.C., the founding president of the Fund for Independence in Journalism in Washington, D.C., and co-author of five books, including the bestseller, The Buying of the President, 2004.
In 1989, he founded (and served 15 years as executive director) the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative reporting organization. Under Lewis, the Center published roughly 300 investigative reports, including 14 books, which received 35 national journalism awards. In 2003, for example, in February the Center posted secret draft “Patriot II” legislation and in October posted all of the known U.S. contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Windfalls of War" also first identified Halliburton as the largest U.S. contractor in those two wars, for which the Center received the George Polk Award.
From 1977 to 1988 he did investigative reporting at ABC News and as a producer for Mike Wallace at CBS News 60 Minutes. In 1998 Lewis was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, and, in 2004, he received the PEN USA First Amendment award. He recently has been a Ferris professor at Princeton University and a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University, and is writing a book for HarperCollins.
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