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2009 Silha Lecturer - Charles Lewis - Biography
A national investigative journalist for nearly 30 years, Charles “Chuck” Lewis is a bestselling author who has founded or co-founded four nonprofit enterprises in Washington, including the Center for Public Integrity. He left a successful career as an investigative producer for ABC News and the CBS News program 60 Minutes to start the Center, which published roughly 300 investigative reports under his leadership, including 14 books. From 1989 through 2004, the Center was honored more than 30 times by national journalism organizations for its work.
In 1997, Lewis established the Center’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the world’s first working network of premier reporters producing content across borders. He is the co-author of five books, including national bestseller The Buying of the President (2004). In 1998, Lewis was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, and received the PEN USA First Amendment award in 2004, “for expanding the reach of investigative journalism, for his courage in going after a story regardless of whose toes he steps on, and for boldly exercising his freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”
In 2003, the Center for Public Integrity posted secret draft “Patriot II” legislation and all of the known U.S. contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and released Windfalls of War, which first identified that Halliburton had received the most money from those contracts. Windfalls of War won the first George Polk Award for Internet Reporting. In 2008, Lewis created, directed and co-authored Iraq: The War Card, a 380,000-word chronology and analysis of the pre-war rhetoric made by leading members of the Bush administration.
Since 2005, Lewis co-founded Global Integrity, which tracks governance and corruption trends around the world. He has also served as founding president of the Fund for Independence in Journalism in Washington, D.C., an endowment and legal defense support organization for the Center for Public Integrity. He was a Ferris Professor at Princeton University in 2005, and a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University in the spring of 2006. Currently, he is a distinguished journalist in residence and executive editor of the new Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University in Washington, D.C.
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