Charles Lewis (journalist)

Charles Lewis ( born October 30, 1953) is an American journalist. Lewis 1989, founded the Center for Public Integrity. He left a well paid job in the investigative television magazine 60 Minutes at CBS News, because the most important issues would not be sent. In 2005, Lewis Global Integrity, an independent organization that corruption over the world studied. Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity (CPI ) was known to the general public in April 2013 by the offshore leaks. , Which falls on CPI International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reported with this revelation about the massive concealment of assets in tax havens and offshore financial centers.

Scientific activity

Lewis was Ferris Professor at Princeton University in 2005, a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University in the spring of 2006 and is a professor of journalism at the American University in Washington.

Awards

Lewis was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship 1998. The PEN Club USA drew Lewis in 2004 with its First Amendment Award, because he is an individual, the extraordinary courage shown therein have to defend freedom of expression in the U.S. and doing a selfless commitment to the rights offered by the First Amendment have shown.