Jeffrey Dvorkin

Jeffrey A. Dvorkin (born September 15, 1946 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian-American journalist. A former Vice President of News and ombudsman for National Public Radio, Dvorkin moved to the United States in 1997 following a lengthy career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto and Montreal, where he was Managing Editor and Chief Journalist for CBC Radio. Since the early 1990s, Dvorkin has served as an international consultant and educator, advocating for a free press along with colleagues from around the world. Dvorkin is also a past president of the Organization of News Ombudsmen. While serving as NPR's ombudsman, Dvorkin authored a popular and well-regarded column on issues pertaining to journalistic ethics. In 2006, after leaving NPR, Dvorkin was named Executive Director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists based in Washington, D.C. [http://journalism.missouri.edu/news/2006/06-20-jeffrey-dvorkin.html] and professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Dvorkin resigned as executive director of CCJ in July 2007. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and continues to serve as a lecturer and discussant on issues of journalistic ethics and practices with news organizations, and at universities around the world. He blogs at http://nowthedetails.blogspot.com/. In May 2008, Dvorkin became the Executive Director of Journalism for the online video news service, The Real News http://www.therealnews.com.

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* [http://journalism.missouri.edu/news/2006/06-20-jeffrey-dvorkin.html]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?columnId=2781901]
* [http://www.current.org/rad/rad710d.html]