Lowell Bergman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and TV producer. He is the founder of the Center of Investigative Journalism, America’s oldest non-profit investigative news organisation, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Group, which was formed in 1976 as response to the slaying of an Arizona journalist.
For more than 35 years Lowell Bergman has worked in print and television, first in the alternative press at the San Diego Free Press, which became the San Diego Street Journal, then at ABC News and, finally, at CBS, where he was a producer for the television programme, 60 Minutes, for 16 years. The story of his investigation of the tobacco industry for 60 minutes was chronicled in the Academy Award nominated feature film ‘The Insider’.
In 2006 he was named the ‘David and Reva Logan Distinguished Professor of Investigative Reporting’ at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he is the Director of the Investigative Reporting Programme.
He continues to teach at the journalism school, while also working as a correspondent for The New York Times and as a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline, integrating graduate students into the research and reporting.
At the 2007 summer school, Lowell gave a talk about the history of whistleblowing in the US and his own involvement in a number of high-profile stories: Whistleblowers.