Fed up USA

Center for Public Integrity

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The Center for “Public Integrity”
-910 17th St. NW Suite 700; Washington DC 20006 (202) 466-1300 | (202) 466-1102 fax | http://www.iwatchnews.org/ 
FromMission“: http://projects.publicintegrity.org/Content.aspx?context=about_mission&id=119 - “The mission of the Center for Public Integrity is to produce original ‘investigative’ journalism about significant public issues to make institutional power [not a'ready under their absolute control, etc.] more transparent and accountable.”
Note: Suffice to say, “integrity” and THEIR own accountability and transparency is NOT their aim and goal.
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Board of Directors
BILL BUZENBERG - executive director
 has been a journalist and news executive at newspapers and in public radio for more than 35 years. He was vice president of news at both National Public Radio and American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio over a span of 16 years. Buzenberg is credited with launching such programs as NPR’s Talk of the Nation, APM’s documentary unit American RadioWorks, and Speaking of Faith, public radio’s signature program on religion. He also began Public Insight Journalism, an innovative use of technology to draw knowledge from the audience. Buzenberg joined NPR in 1978 as the first reporter to help start Morning Edition. For 11 years, he was a foreign affairs correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He was named London bureau chief in 1986 and became NPR’s first managing editor in 1989. He began his journalism career in newspapers, serving as city editor of the Colorado Springs Sun. Buzenberg was a Peace Corps volunteer from 1968 to 1970. He has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award, public radio’s highest honor. A graduate of Kansas State University, Buzenberg has also studied at the University of Michigan as part of its mid-career professional journalism fellowship program, in the M.A. program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy, and as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
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HODDING CARTER III
 is an award-winning journalist and the former president and chief executive officer of the Knight Foundation. He joined the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as a professor of leadership and public policy in January 2006. Carter held the first Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of Maryland College of Journalism, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. His journalistic career began at the Delta Democrat-Times, in Greenville, Mississippi, which his family owned. He was the newspaper’s editor and associate publisher when he was tapped to serve as assistant secretary of state for public affairs under President Jimmy Carter, a role in which he most notably became the administration’s spokesman during the Iran hostage crisis. After his government service, he was the president of MainStreet, a television production company specializing in public affairs television; he later became its chairman. Carter has won four national Emmy Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award for his documentaries. He has authored two books, The Reagan Years and The South Strikes Back, and has contributed to nine others.
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ALAN J. DWORSKY
is an independent investment manager based in Boston who works primarily for nonprofit institutions. He and his wife established and serve as trustees of the Popplestone Foundation.
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CHARLES EISENDRATH
  directs two national journalism programs of professional recognition at the University of Michigan. The Knight-Wallace Fellows, which he converted to private support with a $44 million endowment drive, provides an academic year of sabbatical study to American and international journalists. As the founding director of the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, he designed and administers the largest all-media, general reporting prizes in the country. Since 2006, he has also been the chairman of the American board of the International Press Institute. Eisendrath’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, Life, Sports Illustrated, The Miami Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and the International Herald Tribune. He is an occasional commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. He has served on the international jury of the Pulitzer prizes and is a member of the Inter-American Press Association. After reporting for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Baltimore Evening Sun, Eisendrath joined Time magazine, which posted him in Washington, London, Paris, and Buenos Aires, where as bureau chief he was responsible for all news operations in Hispanic South America. He moved to the University of Michigan journalism faculty in 1975, directing a master’s program that placed all graduates on internships and jobs. Eisendrath holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan.
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BRUCE A. FINZEN
 is a partner in the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, in Washington. As a mass-tort litigator, Finzen is recognized as a highly successful manager of cases involving multistate, class-action issues, and has played a leading role in some of the most important product safety and consumer health issues of the last several decades. He was one of the partners from his firm in charge of litigation on behalf of the government of India arising out of the Bhopal gas leak disaster. He has also been in charge of several mass-tort cases involving medical devices and pharmaceutical products, including cases involving the Björk-Shiley Heart Valve, L-Tryptophan, breast implants, Gammagard, Fen-Phen, and the St. Jude Heart Valve. He has published extensively, lectured at numerous conferences on matters related to civil litigation, and testified before congressional committees. He is a native of Minneapolis.
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BILL KOVACH
 is the chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. He has been a journalist and writer for 40 years. He began his career at the Johnson City Press Chronicle in Tennessee and from 1960 to 1967 was a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean, covering the civil-rights movement, southern politics, and Appalachian poverty. In 1968, after a year of study on a journalism fellowship at Stanford University, he joined The New York Times, where he worked as a reporter and later as the chief of its Washington bureau. He left the Times in 1986 and was the editor of The Atlanta Journal Constitution for two years, during which time it won two Pulitzer Prizes, the first awarded to the newspaper in 20 years. He was appointed a Neiman Fellow in the class of 1988-89 and remained as curator.
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SUSAN LOEWENBERG
  is the founder and producing director of L.A. Theatre Works, a nonprofit organization that provides cultural programming for public radio and outreach programming for children and at-risk youth. She has produced more than 500 hours of radio dramas broadcast on National Public Radio, the BBC, Voice of America, and other outlets.
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BEVIS LONGSTRETH (ex-officio)
 is the chairman of the board of directors of the Fund for Independence in Journalism. A retired partner of Debevoise & Plimpton, he is a member of the board of trustees of New School University and the College Retirement Equities Fund. He was a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner, a member of the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange, and adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Law. 
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PAULA MADISON
 is the first African-American woman to become the general manager of a network-owned station in a top five market. In addition to being the president and general manager of NBC4 in Los Angeles, in 2002 she was named regional general manager of the three NBC/Telemundo television stations in Los Angeles. Until May 2002, Madison was the vice president and senior vice president of diversity for NBC.
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JOHN E. NEWMAN, JR.
 a businessman with investments in information and publishing companies, is the president of The John and Florence Newman Foundation, in San Antonio, Texas. He is active in many educational, health-related, and cultural nonprofit organizations.
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MICHELE NORRIS
  is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience. She hosts NPR’s newsmagazine All Things Considered, public radio’s longest-running national program, with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block. From 1993 to 2002, Norris was a correspondent for ABC News. As a contributing correspondent for the “Closer Look” segments on World News Tonight With Peter Jennings, Norris reported extensively on education, inner-city issues, the nation’s drug problem, and poverty. Norris has also reported for The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. Her Washington Post series about a six-year-old who lived in a crack house was reprinted in the book Ourselves Among Others, along with essays by Václav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Annie Dillard, and Gabriel García Márquez. Norris has received numerous awards for her work, including the National Association of Black Journalists’ 2006 Salute to Excellence Award, for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina; the University of Minnesota’s Outstanding Achievement Award; and the 1990 Livingston Award. In 2007, she was honored with Ebony magazine’s eighth annual Outstanding Women in Marketing & Communications Award. Norris also earned both an Emmy Award and Peabody Award for her contribution to ABC News’s coverage of 9/11. She is also a frequent guest on The Chris Matthews Show on NBC. Norris attended the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in electrical engineering, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she studied journalism. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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GENEVA OVERHOLSER
 board chair, holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, in its Washington bureau. A frequent media critic, she co-edited with Kathleen Hall Jamieson the recent book, The Press as an Institution of Democracy. Overholser was the editor of The Des Moines Register from 1988 to 1995. Under her leadership, the Register won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service. She was named “Editor of the Year” by the National Press Foundation and “Best in the Business” by the American Journalism Review. In 2002, Overholser received the Anvil of Freedom Award. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Wellesley College, a master’s in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and has received honorary doctorates from Grinnell College and St. Andrews Presbyterian College. Overholser was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a Congressional Fellow with the American Political Science Association.
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ALLEN PUSEY
 is the editor of the American Bar Association Journal in Chicago and a former special projects editor for the Washington Bureau of The Dallas Morning News and Belo Broadcasting. Pusey, who was one of the first reporters to uncover the savings-and-loan scandal in the early 1980s, has received numerous awards for his coverage of local and national issues.
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SREE SREENIVASAN
 is a leading technology expert and dean of students at Columbia University’s journalism school, where he runs the new media program. He is also WABC-TV’s “Tech Guru.” His tech reports can be seen on Thursday and Saturday mornings on Channel 7. His work explaining technology has appeared in The New York Times, Business Week, Rolling Stone, and Popular Science (where he’s a member of the Geek Chorus). In March 2004, Newsweek magazine named him one of the nation’s 20 most influential South Asians.
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MARIANNE SZEGEDY-MASZAK
 is a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report and a contributing writer for the Los Angeles Times. She was an Alicia Patterson Fellow in 1992. As a Pulitzer Traveling Fellow in 1986, she lived in Hungary and covered Central Europe for Newsweek magazine and ABC Radio. A former journalism instructor at the American University School of Communication, she has written extensively for major magazines and newspapers.
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Staff
Bill Buzenberg Contact this person
Executive Director
Bill Buzenberg became executive director of the Center in December 2006. Most recently, as senior vice president of news at American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio, Buzenberg launched such programming initiatives as American RadioWorks and Speaking of Faith. Buzenberg was vice president of news and information at National Public Radio from 1990 to 1997. Buzenberg joined NPR in 1978 as the first reporter to help start Morning Edition. For 11 years, he was a foreign affairs correspondent based mostly in Washington, D.C. He was named London bureau chief in 1986 and became NPR’s first managing editor in 1989. He began his journalism career in newspapers, serving as city editor of the Colorado Springs Sun in the early 70s. He was co-editor of the memoirs of the late CBS News president Richard Salant: Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism. A graduate of Kansas State University, Buzenberg has also studied at the University of Michigan as part of its mid-career professional journalism fellowship program, in the master’s program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy, and as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
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Jaime Amrhein Contact this person 
Editorial Intern
Jaime Amrhein is a senior at the University of Notre Dame, originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a history honors major and a minor in the Hesburgh Program for Public Service. Currently Amrhein is working on her senior thesis analyzing the 1928 presidential election in the South. She also studies Southern politics and voter representation as a research assistant for Professor John Griffin. Outside of her studies, Amrhein devotes most of her time to serving as co-president of the Notre Dame Habitat for Humanity Chapter.
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Sara Bularzik Contact this person 
Copy Editor
Sara Bularzik joined the Center in April 2007. She graduated cum laude from American University in May 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in print journalism and a minor in international relations. During her time at American University, Bularzik was a copy editor for the university newspaper and an editor of an online news magazine. She also held internship positions at Washingtonpost.com, Reporters Without Borders, and WAMU radio.
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Steve Carpinelli Contact this person
Media Relations Manager
Steve Carpinelli assists the Center’s communications department with media strategy, procedures, and public outreach efforts. Before joining the Center in 2006, he worked in the research and intelligence practice group at Public Strategies, Inc.’s Washington, D.C., office, focusing on client issues in the telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, health care, and technology sectors. Carpinelli has more than 10 years of experience in Washington public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications issues with policy makers, corporate executives, and all forms of the media. He graduated with honors from American University’s School of International Service with a master’s degree in international communication and policy.
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Te-Ping Chen Contact this person 
Editorial Intern
Te-Ping Chen, originally hailing from Oakland, California, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a joint bachelor’s degree in sociology and international relations. As an undergraduate, she worked extensively on electoral reform and voter-rights campaigns. In 2006, she began contributing freelance features to Rhode Island’s alt-weekly, The Providence Phoenix, as well as opinion columns to the on-campus Brown Daily Herald. Since graduating in December 2007 as a California Truman Scholar, Chen has written for The Nation magazine’s D.C.-based blog, J Street.
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Lisa Chiu Contact this person
Staff Writer and American University Fellow
Lisa Chiu received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a master’s degree in China studies from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a master’s in journalism from American University. She has reported for The Orange County Register, The Arizona Republic, and The Seattle Times, and has been a copy editor at China Daily, China’s English-language newspaper, and China Central Television International, both in Beijing. Chiu joined the Center in 2007 as a fellow from American University.
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Travis Dunn Contact this person
Staff Writer
Travis Dunn joined the Center’s staff in November 2007 to work on the Land Use Decisions Accountability Project, and he now heads the project’s office in Easton, Maryland. Dunn previously was a reporter for The Star Democrat, a daily newspaper in Easton, where he received awards from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association and the Chesapeake Associated Press News Association. He is a graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, which is known for its distinctive “great books” curriculum.
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Joe Eaton Contact this person
Staff Writer
Before he joined the Center’s staff in 2008, Joe Eaton was a staff writer at Washington City Paper and a reporter at The Roanoke Times. He has written for Salon.com, USA Today, and The (Baltimore) Sun. Eaton graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in English and earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.
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Bridget Gallagher Contact this person
Director of Development
Bridget Gallagher brings 10 years of experience as a development professional back to the Center, where she previously served as associate director of development. Gallagher has implemented hands-on major gifts cultivation, proposal writing, and prospect research strategies as a staff member and consultant for advocacy, arts, media/journalism, and educational organizations locally and nationally. Her experience encompasses development and management for organizations including the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra in Michigan, The Doe Fund in New York City, and a political party in Anchorage, Alaska, where she served as executive director from 2003-2004. Gallagher hails from Michigan and holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and English from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
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Caitlin Ginley Contact this person
Staff Writer and Soles Fellow
Caitlin Ginley joined the Center in July 2007 as the University of Delaware’s 10th James R. Soles Fellow. She graduated cum laude in May 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in English and political science, concentrating in journalism. She worked for two years on the editorial staff of the university’s award-winning student newspaper, The Review, and was an intern for Delaware Today magazine and Court TV.
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M. Asif Ismail Contact this person
Project Coordinator
In addition to editing The Public i, Ismail currently heads the Center’s investigation into the pharmaceutical industry. During his eight-year stint at the Center, Ismail has reported on a number of issues, including stem cell research, human cloning, the Enron scandal, and Pentagon contracts. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C., a master of philosophy in Middle Eastern studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and a bachelor’s and master’s in English literature from the University of Calicut in Kerala, India. Ismail worked for The Times of India in New Delhi and the Khaleej Times in Dubai prior to joining the Center.
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Josh Israel Contact this person
Project Coordinator
Josh Israel joined the Center in 2006. Previously, he spent four years working as director of research on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist/historian Nick Kotz’s acclaimed book Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America, and six months as an aide to a Virginia state legislator. Israel is a 1999 magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University and was a 2004 Political Leadership Program Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
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Caroline Jarboe Contact this person
Development Associate
Caroline Jarboe came to the Center in 2007 after eight years at National Public Radio, where she most recently served as senior development associate, and a year as development manager for the Self Reliance Foundation/Hispanic Communications Network. At NPR, Jarboe worked with the nation’s major private foundations, and she was a central development staff member in charge of writing about NPR’s news coverage plans. She graduated from Tulane University with a bachelor’s degree in American studies and received a master’s degree from the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. Under her maiden name Caroline Langston, Jarboe is a widely published writer and essayist, a winner of the Puschart Prize, and a commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered.
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David E. Kaplan Contact this person 
ICIJ Director
David E. Kaplan was named ICIJ director in April 2008. Over a 30-year career, he has investigated organized crime, terrorist groups, corporate polluters, corrupt law enforcement officials, neo-Nazis, the banking industry, and the intelligence community. Kaplan worked previously as chief investigative correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and as one of two senior editors at the San Francisco-based Center for Investigative Reporting. He has reported from two dozen countries and is a former Fulbright scholar in Japan. Among his books are YAKUZA, widely considered the standard reference on the Japanese mafia; and Fires of the Dragon, on the murder of journalist Henry Liu. Kaplan’s stories have won or shared more than 15 awards, including honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors, the American Bar Association, Overseas Press Club, and World Affairs Council.
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Sarah Laskow Contact this person
Staff Writer
Sarah Laskow, a researcher for Buying of the President, joined the Center in August 2006. She holds a bachelor’s degree in literature from Yale University and has worked with Chile Pepper magazine, the West Africa bureau of The New York Times, and National Public Radio. At Yale, Laskow was a founding editor of The (Yale) Hippolytic and senior editor of The New Journal, the magazine about Yale and New Haven.
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Tuan Le Contact this person
Web Developer
Tuan Le came to the Center in 2007 and has worked in a variety of environments, ranging from high-energy startups to blue-chip corporations to nonprofit organizations. Some of the responsibilities and roles he has held include project manager, team leader, and web developer. His background is as varied as his experience, but he specializes in web technologies that include ASP.NET, SQL, AJAX, and CSS.
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Jeremy Lewis Contact this person
Development Associate
Jeremy Lewis joined the Center in November 2007. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2005 and currently is pursuing a master’s of public administration with a focus on nonprofit management from George Washington University. Most recently Lewis worked for a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm assisting in high-dollar fundraising. Prior to that, he was a communications and governmental affairs intern at Amnesty International.
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Kristen Lombardi Contact this person
Staff Writer
Kristen Lombardi joined the Center’s staff in November 2007. She has worked as a journalist for 12 years, mainly at alternative newsweeklies. Most recently, she was a staff writer and investigative reporter at The Village Voice, where she provided groundbreaking coverage of the 9/11 health crisis. Her work has explored such social issues as the family courts, criminal justice, and child abuse. Lombardi’s investigative reports as a staff writer for The Phoenix were widely credited with helping to expose the clergy sexual-abuse scandal in Boston and were recognized by the Columbia Journalism Review and other publications. Her investigative reporting has been honored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, the New England Press Association, and The Livingston Awards, and she was awarded a fellowship from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma for her coverage of abuse, public health, and mental illness. Lombardi graduated with high honors from the University of California at Berkeley and has a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University.
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Mary Beth Lombardo Contact this person 
Editorial Intern
Mary Beth Lombardo will be starting her senior year at the University of Delaware this fall, studying political science, history, and economics. She is a staff reporter for the UD campus newspaper, The Review, serves as an undergraduate teaching assistant, and is an avid soccer player. She has recently completed a semester of research on female governors across the country, focusing on Governor Ruth Ann Minner of Delaware. She is currently writing a senior thesis on the effects of geographic targeting in political advertising during the 2004 elections. Lombardo is a volunteer at Howard County General Hospital and with the Soccer Association of Columbia/Howard County. She has previously worked at a construction law firm in Columbia, Maryland, her hometown.
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Ellen McPeake Contact this person
Chief Operating Officer
Ellen McPeake returned to the Center in November 2007 as its chief operating officer. She has spent most of her life in the nonprofit sector, working for such groups as the Center for Law and Social Policy, the Mental Health Law Project, Public Citizen, and most recently Greenpeace, as its chief operating officer. McPeake majored in international management at Georgetown University.
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Aaron Mehta Contact this person 
Editorial Intern
Aaron Mehta graduated with honors from Tufts University in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in history and communications. Hailing from the Boston area, he has worked for a national political convention, for the legal watchdog group CREW in Washington, and on several Massachusetts-based campaigns. Most recently, he filled the role of research and policy director for the John Connolly City Council race in Boston. Mehta is also an amateur musician and freelance editor in his free time. An editor of his high school paper and a former columnist for The Tufts Daily, he is excited to be returning to journalism.
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Jillian Olsen Contact this person 
Editorial Intern
Jillian Olsen, a San Francisco Bay Area native, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in June 2008. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in comparative politics, she spent at least as much time studying various forms of journalism: sports writing with Filip Bondy of the New York Daily News, international journalism with Barbara Demick with the Los Angeles Times, investigative reporting with James Grimaldi of The Washington Post, and multiplatform journalism with Craig Duff of The New York Times. Olsen continued her education in the media with a senior thesis on the independent press in Africa. Equally passionate about performing, she completed a minor in dance and served two years as artistic director of BodyHype Dance Company, one of Princeton’s premier student-run arts groups. Having spent last summer in Beijing and Tokyo expanding her language skills, Olsen is looking forward to a stint in the even more exotic Washington.
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Mike Pell Contact this person
Computer-Assisted-Reporting Specialist
Mike Pell joined the Center’s staff in December 2007. From 2002 to 2006, as a reporter for the Watertown Daily Times in upstate New York, Pell covered local politics, the Canadian border, and environmental issues related to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. His stories for the newspaper won two Associated Press awards. He then went to the University of Missouri School of Journalism to study computer-assisted reporting; in 2007 he was a Pulliam Fellow at The Arizona Republic.
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Taylor Rausch Contact this person
Editorial Intern
Taylor Rausch is a magazine journalism and history major at the University of Missouri. Originally, she hails from Zionsville, Indiana, and has had her eyes set on a political reporting career in Washington, D.C., for the past decade. She has reported extensively for Columbia’s morning daily, the Columbia Missourian, and an Indiana county daily, The Daily Sun. Rausch serves as the student representative to the Society of Professional Journalists national board. On campus, Rausch currently serves as the president of Mizzou’s SPJ chapter, the largest student chapter in the nation. A Walter Williams Scholar for academic excellence, she is also active as the vice president of membership recruitment for MU’s Journalism Scholars Association and managing her blog, Collisions with a Jument.
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Regina Russell Contact this person
Office Assistant and Executive Assistant to the Executive Director
Regina Russell studied business management at Roanoke Chowan Community College and George Washington University. She is completing her bachelor’s degree at Trinity College.
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Chatchai Sae-Tung Contact this person
Information Technology Manager
Chatchai Sae-Tung came to the Center in May 2005, bringing more than nine years of information technology experience. He began his career in 1996 as a technical support specialist with Primark Corp. (later Thomson Financial Corp.), working first in Bangkok, Thailand, and later in Hong Kong. In 2000, Sae-Tung took on the role of web developer for a start-up Internet consulting firm in Reston, Virginia. He then worked for four years as a network administrator for software reseller companies in northern Virginia. He earned a degree in business administration from Assumption University in Bangkok.
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Dusty Smith Contact this person
Staff Writer
Dusty Smith joined the Center in October 2007 to work on the Land Use Decisions Accountability Project. Smith is a 1999 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, where he helped run a news service that distributed coverage of the Virginia General Assembly to publications around the state. He also worked as an intern in the Washington bureau of Fortune magazine. After graduation, Smith covered the boards of supervisors in Fairfax, Fauquier, and Prince William counties for Times Community Newspapers, which publishes nearly 20 community newspapers in the Virginia suburbs of the nation’s capital. He then joined Leesburg Today as its chief Loudoun County government reporter. Smith has won numerous awards for his coverage of business, small-town politics, and a high-profile murder trial.
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Peter Newbatt Smith Contact this person
Research Editor
Before coming to the Center, Peter Smith was employed as a law clerk at the firm of Gaffney & Schember, P.C., in Washington, D.C. He received his bachelor’s degree in medieval European history from Harvard University and his law degree from American University.
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Tom Stites Contact this person
Consulting Editor
Tom Stites, who joined the Center in January 2007 to provide developmental editing for investigative projects and books, was for a decade the editor and publisher of UU World, the national magazine of the Unitarian Universalist religion. His long journalism career also includes ranking positions at major newspapers including managing editor of The Kansas City Times; national correspondent, national editor, and associate managing editor for project reporting at The Chicago Tribune; and night national editor of The New York Times. Projects he has directed have won every major journalism award, including the Pulitzer Prize.
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Ariel Olson Surowidjojo Contact this person
Online and Multimedia Intern
Ariel Olson Surowidjojo received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Oregon, Eugene, in 2005. She began reporting as an intern for TriCounty News in Junction City, Oregon, and later worked as a freelance reporter for the Eugene Weekly newspaper and for Eugene Magazine, covering local art and entertainment. In August, Surowidjojo married and moved to Washington, D.C., to pursue a master’s degree in journalism at American University. She recently co-authored an article for Washingtonpost.com, identifying young voters’ concerns in the 2008 presidential election.
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Marina Walker Guevara Contact this person
ICIJ Deputy Director
Marina Walker Guevara joined ICIJ in fall 2005. She has written for newspapers and magazines in Argentina and the United States on issues ranging from public health and the environment to courts and human rights. Her investigations have won and shared more than 10 national and international awards. In March 2006 she was awarded the European Commission Lorenzo Natali Prize (Latin America and the Caribbean region) for her reporting about environmental damage caused in Peru by a U.S.-based mining company; that investigation also won her the 2006 Reuters-IUCN Media Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting. She graduated magna cum laude from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, with a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences, and earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.
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Kate Willson Contact this person
Staff Writer and American University Fellow
Kate Willson received a bachelor’s degree in French from Oregon State University. Following graduation she worked briefly in Colombia and then at community and daily newspapers where she covered courts and focused on enterprise and investigative reporting. Willson joined the Center in 2007 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in journalism at American University.
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Michael Zuckerman Contact this person
Project Director
Michael (M.J.) Zuckerman’s 30 years in journalism have included a variety of stints, starting as a radio reporter at WINS All-News Radio in New York City and years as a “cops and courts beat reporter” for Gannett Newspapers in New York. He authored a book, Vengeance Is Mine, investigating a mob hit man’s rise to power as Los Angeles family crime boss and the abuses of the federal witness protection program. Most recently he’s written for the Carnegie Corporation of New York on topics ranging from the thorny U.S.-North Korean peace talks, America’s lack of bio-security readiness, and assessing threats of nuclear terrorism in the United States. Zuckerman is a frequent lecturer at the National Defense University and the Defense Intelligence Agency, and serves as an adjunct professor of journalism at the George Washington University. A “Founder” of USA Today, Zuckerman served there as rewrite desk chief, projects editor, Washington editor, and foreign editor, before working for five years as senior writer investigating, among other things: the weaknesses of U.S. policy after the holocaust in Rwanda; the influence of Russian organized crime over U.S. businesses in Moscow during the 1990s; and the threats of international terrorism and failures of U.S. national security policies to adapt to the new rules of engagement — and avoid conflicting with traditional civil liberties — in today’s cyber era.
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Foundation Support: Around Foundation * The Attias Family Foundation * Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation * Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment * Carnegie Corporation of New York * Challenge Fund for Journalism * Nathan Cummings Foundation * Deer Creek Foundation * Dudley Foundation * Educational Foundation of America * Ford Foundation * The Fund for Independence in Journalism * Hafif Family Foundation * The Heinz Endowments * JEHT Foundation * Litowitz Foundation, Inc. * John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation * The Robert & Bethany Millard Charitable Foundation * Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust * Nell Williams Family Foundation * John & Florence Newman Foundation * Park Foundation, Inc. * Karen & Christopher Payne Foundation * Popplestone Foundation * Lynn R. & Karl E. Prickett Fund * Prince Charitable Trusts * Rauch Foundation * Robins, Kaplan, Miller, & Ciresi L.L.P Charitable Foundation * Rockefeller Brothers Fund * The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation * Scherman Foundation, Inc. * Joan Shorenstein Center * Streisand Foundation * TIFF Education Foundation in Honor of Bevis Longstreth * Town Creek Foundation, Inc. * Wallace Global Fund. Integrity Circle (Individuals $10,000 and above): Harriett Crosby; Victor Elmaleh; Joannie Fischer; Willard Harzoff; Arthur D. Lipson; Donna Mae Litowitz; Bevis Longstreth; Fred Stanback. Transparency Circle (Individuals $5,000 — $9,999): Bruce A. Finzen; Donovan Rasmussen. Muckraker Circle (Individuals $1,000 — $4,999): Parks M. Adams; John Barth; Richard I. Beattie; Jack Block; Henry Button; William E. Buzenberg; Hodding Carter; Peter Case; Samuel Chapin; Russell Daniel; Curtiss E. Frank; Harvey Furgatch; Barbara J. Graves; Jimmy W. Janacek; Jerry Knoll; George W. Krumme; James J. Lippard; Susan Loewenberg; Paula Madison; Bill Manning; Janet Maughan; Jan Nicholson; Geneva Overholser; Charles Piller; Robert Price; Eugene Scanlan; Connie Schrof; Ben Sherwood; Michael Sonnenfeldt; Marianne Szegedy-Maszak; Michael Tiemann; Joe Toyoshima; Wayne Wiley. Watchdog Circle (Individuals $250 — $999): Charles Abboud Caesar Alarcon; Ira T. Anderson; George W. Bauer; Jeffrey Behnke; Murray Berrie; R. Harwood Beville; Philippe Boets; Barbara P. Boucot; David Braybrooke; Peter Broner; Ruth E. Brown; Rachel Buddenerg; William T. Burke; Jerry D. Busch; Charles Cerf; Henry C. Clifford; Jonathan Coopersmith; Edward J. Cummings; John A. Davidson; Robert DeMars; James K. Donnell; Robert D. Duke; David Earney; Eugene Edmon; Karen L. Ennis; Doug Erickson; Janice Feinberg; Ron Feldman; Joseph Firak; Eugene Foster; Grover Foster; Gina Genovese; Dan Gillmor; Milton Glicksman; Charles Gorman; Wilfred J. Gragert; James C. Grant; Lawrence K. Grossman; Gay Gwinner; Roger Hall; Aaron S. Hamburger; Kent Harbison; John Harding; Matt Heinsch; Ben Hemmen; Jonathan Ingbar; Karen Jenne; Stephen Jensen; Ted Johnson; Gilbert Katz; Thomas Kayser; Marie Kireker; Bill Kovach; Jean Lecuyer; William S. Lee; Seymour Lewin; Charles Lewis; Tom Lis; Harry Lonsdale; Martha S. Lyon; Al Mariam; Robert McCue; Kevin McKinney; Barbara J. Meislin; Morton A. Mintz; Eric Newton; Frances C. Nyce; Michael O’Keefe; James E. Palmer; John Pasquin; Marsha Pelosky; Win Phelps; Debra Potts; Alan Pye; Jacques M. Quen; Cynthia Reich; Raymundo Riva Palacio; David Rush; Barbara W. Schecter; Yosefi M. Seltzer; Andre Shashaty; Michael Skoler; David Sobelson; James R. Soles; Norman M. Spieler; Sree Sreenivasan; Donald O. Stover; Barbara Stuart; William Svrluga; Peter D. Thompson; Mark S. Thompson;  Ralph Tornberg; Roopa Unnikrishnan; Marvin Weissberg; Harold M. Williams; Mary B. Williams; Isaac J. Winograd; Stacy Woodruff.
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