Investigative Journalism Now and Then by Lowell Bergman
ThemeOnline seminar
Speaker：
Lowell Bergman: an investigative journalist and the creator of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley
Price：
$10
About our guest speaker
Lowell Bergman is an investigative journalist and the creator of the Investigative
Reporting Program at UC Berkeley. He is now the Emeritus Reva & David
Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Reporting at UC Berkeley’s Graduate
School of Journalism. The story of his investigation into the tobacco industry
was chronicled in Michael Mann‘s movie The Insider, which was nominated for
seven Academy Awards. Bergman was portrayed by Al Pacino.
Bergman’s career spans more than half a century, from helping to found the
Center for Investigative Reporting in 1977 – the first non-profit investigative
reporting group – to working as an investigative reporter producer for ABC
News, CBS News’ 60 Minutes, PBS FRONTLINE, and the New York Times. His
stories in broadcast and print have received Emmys, DuPonts and Peabodys,
and a Polk, and he shared in a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He was named
one of the “Thirty Most Important Investigative Reporters” in the last century by George Washington University’s Encyclopedia of Journalism.