Charles ‘Chuck’ Lewis has founded four non-profit enterprises in Washington, including the Center for Public Integrity.
A national investigative journalist since 1977, Lewis left a successful career at ABC News and the CBS programme 60 Minutes to begin the Center for Public Integrity from his home. Under his leadership, the Center published roughly 300 investigative reports, including 14 books, from 1989 through 2004, and has been honoured more than 30 times by national journalism organisations.
Lewis also founded the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the world’s first global website devoted to international exposés.
In 2005, Lewis co-founded Global Integrity, and has also served as founding president of the Fund for Independence in Journalism in Washington. He has been a consultant on access to information issues to the Carter Center in Atlanta, a Ferris Professor at Princeton University, and a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University.
At the 2009 summer school, Chuck gave talks about power, the news media and the public’s right to know: In Search of Truth and about the Emerging New Investigative Journalism Ecosystem.