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Charles Lewis (journalist)

Charles Lewis is an investigative journalist based in Washington, D.C. He founded The Center for Public Integrity and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, where he served for 16 years as executive editor.

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.

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'' In 2018, he was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard's Nieman Foundation. Provided by Wikipedia