Center for Public Integrity

Infobox Non-profit
Non-profit_name = The Center for Public Integrity
Non-profit_
Non-profit_type = 501(c)(3)
founded_date = March 1989
founder = Charles Lewis
location = Washington DC
origins =
key_people = Bill Buzenberg, Executive Director
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Chairperson
area_served =
focus = Investigative Journalism
method = Foundation and Member Supported
revenue =
endowment =
num_volunteers =
num_employees =
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Non-profit_slogan = Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest
homepage = [http://www.publicintegrity.org/ publicintegrity.org]
dissolved =
footnotes =

The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern. The Center is non-partisan and non-advocacy and committed to transparent and comprehensive reporting both in the United States and around the world. The mission of the Center is to produce original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make institutional power more transparent and accountable. Located in Washington, DC, USA, the Center for Public Integrity produces reports aimed to provide transparent and insightful reporting. The Center has conducted investigations into many topics; the environment, public health, public accountability, federal and state lobbying, war profiteering, and financial disclosure, all of which have a public integrity component.

The Center releases its reports via its web site, press releases, and news advisories to all forms of media; broadcast, print, online, and blogs, throughout the U.S. and around the globe. The Center's 2004, "The Buying of the President" book was on the New York Times bestseller list for three monthscite news
last=Lewis
first=Charles
url=http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/working_papers/lewis_april_07.pdf
title=The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism
publisher=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy |format=PDF] after its January 2004 publication. The Center also collects and organizes the public records it gathers into online databases so that other reporters and the public have access to the information. In 2006, Slate media critic Jack Shafer described the Center as having "broken as many stories as almost any big-city daily in the last couple of decades" [cite news | first=Jack | last=Shafer |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2152033/nav/tap1/ | title=If You Don't Buy This Newspaper … We'll shoot your democracy. | publisher=Slate.com | date=23 October 2006] .

Because it is funded by a network of private donors and philanthropic organizations rather than advertisers, the Center operates on a business model different from most traditional news organizations.

Origin of the Name

In an essay marking the 10th anniversary of the Center's founding, Lewis wrote:Quotation|Initially the idea of having "investigative reporting" in the name appealed to me. But the landscape was crowded with groups having those words in their names: the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) in Missouri, the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Washington. It was not just that figuring out a way to include investigative and reporting in a memorable name without repeating all the other memorable names was going to be a problem. The whole reputation of investigative reporters was not exactly at its highest point at the time. Was this really how I wanted this group to be identified?

So I asked a friend who was not a journalist, "What should this be called?" We tried to come up with the central theme to our discussions and we realized that the theme was integrity. And then we refined that theme to public integrity. I went to my new Board members and suggested the name. We knew that it sounded a little pompous. A little pretentious. A little strange. But it ended up being a very useful name because when anything arose remotely involving ethics, or impropriety anywhere, any time, in any field of endeavor, we would get the call.cite news | url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2000_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf | title=2000 Annual Report | publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF]

History

The Founding (1989-1990)

The Center was founded in March 1989 by Charles Lewis after an 11-year career as a television reporter that included a stint as correspondent Mike Wallace's producer for the CBS News program 60 Minutescite news | url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2000_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf | title=2000 Annual Report | publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] . Frustrated by his sense that the current system failed to adequately investigate corruption in Washington, Lewis quit his job at CBS and founded the Center. At the time, he wrote:Quotation|In recent years, a disturbing paradox has increasingly gnawed at me: America's best and brightest reporters, working for the most respected national news organizations, too often do not investigate the country's most important stories. ... While about 4,000 accredited reporters work today in Washington, not much muckraking is actually going on. There needs to be a group of respected journalists in Washington who on a regular basis are doing insightful investigative studies of the systematic problems hampering government and the political process. [cite news | title=Mercenary, not public, service | last=Lewis | first=Charles | publisher=IRE Journal | date= Spring] After starting out with headquarters in his home in Northern Virginia, Lewis began by securing funding and garnering support from a variety of a prominent public figures -- early advisers included Arthur Schlesinger Jr., James MacGregor Burns, James David Barber, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Father Theodore Hesburgh, Bill Kovach and Hodding Carter III.cite news
last=Lewis
first=Charles
url=http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/working_papers/lewis_april_07.pdf
title=The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism
publisher=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy |format=PDF] .

The Lewis Era (1990-2004)

In May 1990, Lewis used the money he had raised and his house as collateral to open an convert|1800|sqft|m2|-1|sing=on office in Washington at [http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=1910+K+Street+Nw,+Washington,+DC 1910 K Street, N.W.] cite news | url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2000_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf | title=2000 Annual Report | publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] . In its first year, the Center's budget was $200,000cite news
last=Lewis
first=Charles
url=http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/working_papers/lewis_april_07.pdf
title=The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism
publisher=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy |format=PDF] . By the 1992 elections, Lewis had added three full-time staffers. The Center continued to grow over the years, relocating to 1634 I Street, N.W. in 1994, and by 2006 it employed more than three dozen employees. Its offices are now located at [http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=910+17th+Street+Nw,+Washington,+DC 910 17th Street, N.W.]

In 1996 the Center launched its first Web site, but did not begin to publish reports online until 1999cite news
last=Lewis
first=Charles
url=http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/working_papers/lewis_april_07.pdf
title=The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism
publisher=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy |format=PDF] .

Lewis served as director until January 2005. At the time of his departure, the Center claimed to have published 14 books and more than 250 investigative reports [cite news | url=http://www.public-i.org/docs/publici/pi_2004_12.pdf | title=The Public I |month=December | year=2004| publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] and have a working staff of 40 full-time workers based in Washington partnering with a network of writers and editors in more than 25 countriescite news
last=Lewis
first=Charles
url=http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/working_papers/lewis_april_07.pdf
title=The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism
publisher=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy |format=PDF] . Years later, Lewis said he decided to leave his position at the Center because "he didn't want it to become 'an institution that was Chuck's Excellent Adventurecite news
last = Hartmann
first = Anath
title = Center of Attention
publisher = American Journalism Review
month = December | year = 2007
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4442] .'"

The departure surprised and upset philanthropists Herb and Marion Sandler, who had partially funded the Center's activitiescite news
last = Nocera
first = Joe
title = The Money Issue
publisher = The New York Times
date = 2008-03-09
url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/magazine/09Sandlers-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin] .

Lewis has continued a draw a salary. According to filings with the IRS, he received $99,000 from the Center in 2005cite news
url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2005.pdf
title=2005 Annual Return (IRS Form 990)
publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] and $86,000 in 2006cite news
url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2006.pdf
title=2006 Annual Return (IRS Form 990)
publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] . This is a reduction from his previous salary, which was reported at $180,000 at the time he stepped down as executive directorcite news
url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2004.pdf
title=2004 Annual Return (IRS Form 990)
publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] .

The Baskin-Rawls Era (2005-2007)

In December 2004, the Center's board of directors choose a successor, television journalist Roberta Baskin. Baskin came to the Center after directing consumer investigations for ABC News's 20/20 and serving as Washington correspondent for PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers [ cite news | url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2004_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf | title=2004 annual report | publisher=The Center for Public Integrity|format=PDF] .

After the handover from the founder and long-time director Lewis, many of the Center's senior staff also left the organizationcite news
last=Lewis
first=Charles
url=http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/working_papers/lewis_april_07.pdf
title=The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism
publisher=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy |format=PDF] .

In September 2005, the Center announced that it had discovered a pattern of plagiarism in the past work of staff writer Robert Moore for the Center's 2002 book "Capitol Offenders". The Center responded by hiring a copy editor to review all of Moore's work, issuing a revised version of "Capitol Offenders", sending letters of apology to all of the reporters whose work was plagiarized, authoring a new corrections policy and returning an award the book received from Investigative Reporters and Editorscite news
title = Statement on Unattributed Use of Source Materials
publisher = The Center for Public Integrity
date = September 9 [2005]
url = http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/release.aspx?aid=29] cite news
last = Baskin
first = Roberta
title = Taken Aback
publisher = American Journalism Review
date = February/March 2008
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4468] . Moore went on to work for a political consulting firm that specializes in opposition researchcite news
last = Prince
first = Richard
title = What's in the Floodwater?
publisher = Maynard Institute
date = September 14 [2005]
url = http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/050914_prince/] cite news
last = Bice
first = Daniel
title = Integrity washout finds niche dredging muck in court race
publisher = Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
date = September 14 [2005]
url = http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=583463] . In March 2007, Moore told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the Center's official version "is not accurate in telling the full story of why I left the center," but did not elaboratecite news
last = Bice
first = Daniel
title = Integrity washout finds niche dredging muck in court race
publisher = Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
date = September 14 [2005]
url = http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=583463] .

In early 2006, The National Journal reported that Center staffer Bob Williams alleged he was fired for raising concerns about a no-bid consulting contract then-Managing Director Wendell Rawls received from the Tennessee Valley Authority, "where an old friend served as chairman [cite news
last=Singer
first=Paul
date= February 18, 2006
title=Integrity's Turmoil
publisher=The National Journal ] ." Williams told a reporter he was asked to leave shortly after challenging Rawls to "step outside" in response to Rawls impugning his masculinitycite news
last = Hartmann
first = Anath
title = Center of Attention
publisher = American Journalism Review
month = December | year = 2007
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4442] .Baskin and Rawls declined to comment on Williams' accusations about his departure, but both disputed his contention that Rawls' contract was an example of cronyism and later contested the story's account of a "heated" confrontation at a staff meeting [cite news
url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/release.aspx?aid=41
date= February 23, 2006
title=The Center for Public Integrity Responds
publisher=PublicIntegrity.org ] . Writing in 2008, Baskin alleged that Williams "physically threatened" Rawls at the meeting in questioncite news
last = Baskin
first = Roberta
title = Taken Aback
publisher = American Journalism Review
date = February/March 2008
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4468] and said that "Williams was angry and hurt about having to leave and cannot possibly be viewed as a credible source...cite news
last = Baskin
first = Roberta
title = Taken Aback
publisher = American Journalism Review
date = February/March 2008
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4468] "

Baskin held the position until May 24, 2006 [cite news | url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/release.aspx?aid=109 | title=The Center for Public Integrity Announces Leadership Change | publisher=PublicIntegrity.org] , when Rawls stepped in to serve as acting director. Writing in 2007, Lewis would describe the Center's output during Baskin's tenure as "generally unremarkable," lacking "the pop" of work from his tenure, and also report that fundraising for 2005 and 2006 amounted to only half the total Lewis raised during 2004, his final yearcite news
last=Lewis
first=Charles
url=http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/working_papers/lewis_april_07.pdf
title=The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism
publisher=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy |format=PDF] cite news
last = Hartmann
first = Anath
title = Center of Attention
publisher = American Journalism Review
month = December | year = 2007
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4442] .

Baskin would later express surprise at Lewis' criticism while making a veiled referenced to the "high" salary he continued to earn after his retirement.cite news
last = Baskin
first = Roberta
title = Taken Aback
publisher = American Journalism Review
date = February/March 2008
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4468] .

The Buzenberg Era (2007-Present)

In December 2006, Rawls was succeeded by William E. Buzenberg, a vice president at American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio [cite news | url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/release.aspx?aid=73 | title=William E. Buzenberg Named Executive Director Of The Center for Public Integrity | publisher=PublicIntegrity.org | date=23 October 2006] .

Buzenberg was first interviewed for the position in 2004 during the hiring process that ultimately lead to the selection of his predecessor, Roberta Baskin.cite news
last = Hartmann
first = Anath
title = Center of Attention
publisher = American Journalism Review
month = December | year = 2007
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4442]

According to a report by Lewis, "the number of full-time staff was reduced by one-third" in early 2007cite news
last=Lewis
first=Charles
url=http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/working_papers/lewis_april_07.pdf
title=The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism
publisher=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy |format=PDF] . By December 2007, the number of full-time staff had dropped to 25, down from a high of 40.cite news
last = Hartmann
first = Anath
title = Center of Attention
publisher = American Journalism Review
month = December | year = 2007
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4442] At the time, Buzenberg said "It's a great, great place, but I will not mislead you... [Lewis] quite frankly left the center in great shape financially, but when you have a visionary who leaves, how do you continue? 'With difficulty' is the answer.cite news
last = Hartmann
first = Anath
title = Center of Attention
publisher = American Journalism Review
month = December | year = 2007
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4442] "

Baskin publicly disputed Buzenberg's claims in a letter to the American Journalism Review where she wrote:Quotation|Contrary to the statement from current Executive Director Bill Buzenberg, the center was not left "in great shape financially" by my predecessor. Much of the money raised during the year prior to my tenure was used to offset budget overruns on several previous projects. I replaced our director of development and made fundraising my number one priority, much as Buzenberg has done. As a rookie fundraiser, I take pride in the fact that I was able to raise millions of dollarscite news
last = Baskin
first = Roberta
title = Taken Aback
publisher = American Journalism Review
date = February/March 2008
url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4468] .

In 2008, Lewis reflected on the transition period following his resigination and said:Quotation|I regret what happened to my staff and the condition of the Center. It’s no secret it had a less than enviable few years. But that’s one of the reasons I thought it was important to leave. I had founded it and run it for 15 years, and at some point the founder does have to leave the building. Leaving at the 20-year mark, or 25-year mark, or 30-year mark wouldn’t have made such a transition easier; in fact, it would have made it even more difficult.

There is something called the Founder Syndrome, and one of the problems is that the transition period is difficult because people think of the organization in terms of one person. I was trying to make it something beyond “Chuck’s Excellent Adventure” — less about me and more about the idea of having a watchdog entity in the nation’s capital doing investigative work.

I don’t regret it, I think it was important that I left, but I do feel badly about the hardship it brought to people I think the world of. On a personal and human level, I feel bad for those folks and have spent dozens of hours helping people work through things.

What do I think of things currently? It’s been a bumpy time. Bill Buzenberg is the third director since I left, but they have turned an important corner, and it’s back, and will continue to do important work. I’m doing everything I can discreetly to help them from outside the organization.cite interview
last = Lewis
first = Charles
subjectlink = Charles Lewis
interviewer = Mark Glaser
title = Charles Lewis Tries to Solve — Not Bemoan — State of Investigative Journalism
program = MediaShift
callsign = PBS
date = 2008-06-18
accessdate = 2008-06-19] .

Notable Work

** The Center's first report, America's Frontline Trade Officials reported that nearly one half of White House trade officials over a 15-year period became lobbyists for countries or overseas corporations after they left public service. According to Lewis, it "prompted a Justice Department ruling, a General Accounting Office report, a Congressional hearing, was cited by four presidential candidates in 1992 and was partly responsible for an executive order in January 1993 by President Clinton, placing a lifetime ban on foreign lobbying by White House trade officialscite news
last=Lewis
first=Charles
url=http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/working_papers/lewis_april_07.pdf
title=The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism
publisher=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy |format=PDF] ."
* [http://www.public-i.org/docs/publici/pi_1996_08.pdf Fat Cat Hotel] (1996)
** "This Public i report, written by Margaret Ebrahim, won the 1996 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in Newsletter Journalism. The report profiles 75 fund-raisers and donors who stayed overnight in the Clinton White House [cite news
url=http://store.publicintegrity.org/ecom/store/default.aspx?act=details&type=report&iID=22
title=Online Store: Fat Cat Hotel
publisher=PublicIntegrity.org ] ."
* The Buying of the President, 1996, 2000, 2004
* Windfalls of War
* LobbyWatch
* Patriot Act II
* Power Trips
* Silent Partners

Honors

The Center's work has been honored by journalism awards from PEN USA, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Association of Capital Reporters and Editors, the National Press Foundation, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and otherscite news | url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/about.aspx?act=awards|title=Awards|publisher=PublicIntegrity.org] . A full listing may be found [http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/about.aspx?act=awards here] .

pinoffs

Created in 1997, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists network includes 92 leading investigative reporters and editors in 48 countries. The group has collaborated on numerous online and printed reports on corporate crime, arms trafficking, terrorism, U.S. military policy and human rights issues. Global Integrity, another international project, was launched in 2001 to systematically track and report on openness, accountability and the rule of law in various countries.

Funding

The Center for Public Integrity is supported by individual contributions and grants awarded by charitable foundations. [http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/about.aspx?act=funders A list of the Center's funders] may be found on its official Web site. Donations are tax-deductible. The Center ceased accepting contributions from corporations and labor unions in 1996cite news | url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2000_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf | title=2000 Annual Report | publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] . In its first year, the Center's budget was reported to be $200,000cite news
last=Lewis
first=Charles
url=http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/working_papers/lewis_april_07.pdf
title=The Growing Importance of Non-Profit Journalism
publisher=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy |format=PDF] .

Budget

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frame | center | | Source: IRS filings">cite news
url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2002.pdf
title=2002 Annual Return (IRS Form 990)
publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] cite news
url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2003.pdf
title=2003 Annual Return (IRS Form 990)
publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] cite news
url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2004.pdf
title=2004 Annual Return (IRS Form 990)
publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] cite news
url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2005.pdf
title=2005 Annual Return (IRS Form 990)
publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF] cite news
url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2006.pdf
title=2006 Annual Return (IRS Form 990)
publisher=The Center for Public Integrity |format=PDF]

Management and Staff

Reports and Filings

=Annual Reportscite news | url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/about.aspx?act=annual | title=Annual Reports | publisher=PublicIntegrity.org] =

* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2005_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf 2005] (PDF File: 738 KB)
* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2004_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf 2004] (PDF File: 1587 KB)
* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2003_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf 2003] (PDF File: 1264 KB)
* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2002_CPI_Highlights.pdf 2002] (PDF File: 508 KB)
* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2001_CPI_Highlights.pdf 2001] (PDF File: 584 KB)
* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/annualreports/2000_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf 2000] (PDF File: 1503 KB)

=Annual Returns [cite news | url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/about.aspx?act=irs | title=IRS Compliance | publisher=PublicIntegrity.org] ( [http://www.guidestar.org/help/faq_990.jsp#whatis990 IRS Form 990] )=

* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2006.pdf 2006] (PDF File: 3.0 MB)
* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2005.pdf 2005] (PDF File: 2.2 MB)
* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2004.pdf 2004] (PDF File: 1.9 MB)
* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2003.pdf 2003] (PDF File: 3.1 MB)
* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/IRS/tax2002.pdf 2002] (PDF File: 3.3 MB)

Published Books

cite book
coauthors= Borders, Rebecca & Dockery, C.C.
title=
publisher= University Press of America
year=1995
isbn= 081919820X

cite book
coauthors= Lewis, Charles; Benes, Alejandro; O'Brien, Meredith & The Center for Public Integrity
title= The Buying of the President
publisher= Avon Books
year=1996
isbn= 0380784203

cite book
coauthors= Fagin, Dan; Lavelle, Marianne & The Center for Public Integrity
title=
publisher= Carol Publishing Corporation
year=1997
isbn= 1559723858

cite book
coauthors= Lewis, Charles & The Center for Public Integrity
title=
publisher= Avon Books
year=1998
isbn= 0380975963

cite book
coauthors= Green, Alan
title=
publisher= Public Affairs
year=1999
isbn= 1586483749

cite book
coauthors= Lewis, Charles & The Center for Public Integrity
title= The Buying of the President 2000
publisher= Harper Perennial
year=2000
isbn= 0380795191

cite book
coauthors= The Center for Public Integrity
title=
year=2000
isbn= 1567511880

cite book
coauthors= Lewis, Charles; Allison Bill & the Center for Public Integrity
title=
publisher= William Morrow & Company
year=2001
isbn= 038097682X

cite book
coauthors= Renzulli, Diane & Center for Public Integrity, The
title=
year=2002
isbn= 1882583140

cite book
coauthors= The Center for Public Integrity
title= Harmful Error
year=2003
isbn= 1882583183

cite book
coauthors= The Center for Public Integrity
title=
year=2003

cite book
coauthors= Lewis, Charles and the Center for Public Integrity
title=
publisher= Harper Paperbacks
year=2004
isbn= 0060548533

cite book
coauthors= Center for Public Integrity, The
title= The Corruption Notebooks
year=2004
isbn= 1882583191

cite book
coauthors= The Center for Public Integrity
title=
publisher= Center for Public Integrity
year=2005
isbn= 1882583205

cite book
coauthors= Center for Public Integrity, The
title=
publisher= Louisiana State University Press
year=2007
isbn= 0807132845

Further reading

*cite interview
interviewer = Brian Lamb
last = Buzenberg
first = Bill
title = Q&A
program = Q&A
date = January 1 2008
url = http://www.c-span.org/special/Buzenberg.asp
*cite news
last = Glaser
first = Mark
title = Center for Public Integrity Leading the Way for Serious Online Journalism
publisher = Online Journalism Review
date = 25 February 2004
url = http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1077668140.php
*cite news
last = Lewis
first = Charles
title = Are We Better Off: This is Reform?
publisher = Mother Jones
date = May 3 2004
url = http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/2004/04/MJ100_200.html
*cite speech
title = Digging Where Journalists Don't Dig
first = Charles
last = Lewis
url = http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.Digging%20Where%20Journalists%20Don't%20Dig
*cite speech
title = Expanding The Definition of News Media Trust, A Jay Rosen-Led Conversation
first = Charles
last = Lewis
url = http://www.restoringthetrust.org/day4.shtml
date =August 9, 2005
location = San Antonio, Texas
*cite news
last = Lewis
first = Charles
title = The Nonprofit Road
publisher = Columbia Journalism Review
date = September/October 2007
url = http://www.cjr.org/feature/the_nonprofit_road.php
*cite interview
interviewer = Ken Adelman
last = Lewis
first = Charles
title = Stories from a Watchdog Journalist
program = Washingtonian
date = February 1 2006
url = http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/mediapolitics/1724.html
*cite interview
interviewer = Bob Garfield
last = Lewis
first = Charles
title = The Digging Life
program = On The Media
callsign = WNYC
date = March 4 2005
url = http://www.onthemedia.org/yore/transcripts/transcripts_030405_digging.html
*cite interview
last = Lewis
first = Charles
interviewer = Brian Lamb
title = The Buying of the Congress
program = Booknotes
callsign = C-SPAN
city = Washington, DC
date = November 1, 1998
url = http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1487
*cite interview
last = Lewis
first = Charles
interviewer = John McQuaid
title = Charles Lewis on the Future of Investigative Journalism on the Web
program = NewAssignment.Net
date = November 20, 2006
url = http://www.newassignment.net/tags/center_for_publi
*cite news
last = Keiger
first = Dale
title = An "i" Toward Tough Journalism
publisher = Johns Hopkins Magazine
month = November | year = 2000
url = http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/1100web/lewis.html

References

External links

* [http://www.publicintegrity.org The Center for Public Integrity's official Web site (publicintegrity.org)]
* [http://www.publicintegrity.org/icij/ The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' official Web site]
* [http://www.globalintegrity.org/ Global Integrity's official Web site]
* [http://www.charles-lewis.com/ Charles Lewis's official Web site]
* [http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/7166.htm The Center's Charity Navigator Rating]
* [http://www.shorensteincenter.org/ The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy's official Web site]