Roberta Baskin

Roberta Baskin is Director of the Investigative Team at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.. In her distinguished journalism career, she has served as the Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, the senior Washington correspondent for "NOW with Bill Moyers", senior investigative producer for the ABC newsmagazine "20/20", chief investigative correspondent for the CBS newsmagazine "48 Hours", and contributed special reports to the CBS Evening News. Roberta began her career as an investigative reporter in Chicago and Washington D.C.

Roberta has won more than 75 journalism prizes, including two duPont-Columbia University Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Radio-Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow Award, and numerous Emmy awards, including the Ted Yates Emmy Award for outstanding service to the community. She was named a “Washingtonian of the Year in 1989. Her investigative reporting specialty has been public corruption and corporate misconduct. Some of her investigations have led to congressional hearings, new regulations, and criminal prosecutions. Many of her enterprising reports have transformed the way companies do business.

Roberta’s been honored with a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, and an Ethics Fellowship at the Poynter Institute. She’s active in journalism organizations and has been a popular guest lecturer internationally, from Budapest to Borneo. She’s served on the Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism for thirteen years, was elected to a term on the Board of Directors for Investigative Reporters and Editors, and has served on the Nieman Fellows Selection Committee. Roberta now serves on the Executive Committee of the Nieman Foundation's Advisory Board, and is on the Board of Directors of the International Communications Forum-America, and Images and Voices of Hope. She also serves as a juror for the duPont-Columbia Awards and Chairs the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Committee.