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Lowell Bergman
Pulitzer Prize Winner/Correspondent, Frontline/Director, Investigative Reporting Program & Distinguished Chair, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Lowell Bergman is the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism, where he has taught a seminar dedicated to investigative reporting for more than 20 years. He is also the coordinator of a forthcoming collaboration with Univision and PBS Frontline on a sequel to the award-winning documentary “Rape in the Fields.” He was a senior producer and consultant to PBS Frontline until 2015.
Bergman co-founded the Center for Investigative Reporting in 1977. Soon after, he joined ABC News, where he became Director of Investigative Reporting and a producer at 20/20. In 1983, Bergman joined 60 Minutes, where over the course of 14 years he produced more than 50 segments. His 60 Minutes investigation of the tobacco industry was dramatized in the Academy Award-nominated feature film The Insider. In 2004, Bergman received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded to The New York Times for “A Dangerous Business,” which detailed a foundry company’s safety and environmental violations.
He has also received numerous Emmys, five Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University silver and golden Baton awards, three Peabodys, a Polk Award, a Sidney Hillman award for labor reporting, the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism and the James Madison Freedom of Information Award for Career Achievement.
Bergman co-founded the Center for Investigative Reporting in 1977. Soon after, he joined ABC News, where he became Director of Investigative Reporting and a producer at 20/20. In 1983, Bergman joined 60 Minutes, where over the course of 14 years he produced more than 50 segments. His 60 Minutes investigation of the tobacco industry was dramatized in the Academy Award-nominated feature film The Insider. In 2004, Bergman received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded to The New York Times for “A Dangerous Business,” which detailed a foundry company’s safety and environmental violations.
He has also received numerous Emmys, five Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University silver and golden Baton awards, three Peabodys, a Polk Award, a Sidney Hillman award for labor reporting, the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism and the James Madison Freedom of Information Award for Career Achievement.
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