Logan Distinguished Professor of Investigative Reporting, Lowell Bergman, bringing together more than 200 of the top reporters, editors and producers from media outlets around the world.
Among them include, Len Downie (Arizona State University), Lisa Frazier (The Bay Citizen), Alan Mutter (Newsosaur), John Thornton (The Texas Tribune), and Robert Rosenthal (Center for Investigative Reporting). This panel is moderated by Jack Shafer from Slate.
Bio
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline. Bergman is also the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught a seminar dedicated to investigative reporting for over 10 years.
Bergman's career spans nearly four decades. In 1977, he co-founded the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. From 1978 to 1983, he was a producer, a reporter and then the director of investigative reporting at ABC News. He was one of the original producers of "20/20." In 1983, Bergman joined CBS News as a producer for "60 Minutes" where, over the course of 14 years, he developed stories on subjects ranging from organized crime to terrorism to corporate crime. The story of his investigation into the tobacco industry was chronicled in the Academy Award–nominated film "The Insider." From 1999 to 2008, Bergman was an investigative correspondent for the New York Times.
Creating collaborative investigative projects using broadcast, print and the Web became his specialty and he was rewarded with nearly every award in all media platforms. In addition, Professor Bergman consistently integrates students from his seminar into various projects, a practice that continues to this day.
Leonard Downie Jr.
Leonard Downie Jr. was named Executive Editor of The Washington Post on September 1, 1991, after serving as Managing Editor for seven years. He worked on the Metropolitan staff as a reporter and editor for 15 years, and ran the staff as Assistant Managing Editor for Metropolitan news from 1974 until 1979.
As Deputy Metropolitan Editor, Downie helped supervise The Post's Watergate coverage. He was named London correspondent in 1979 and returned to Washington in 1982 as National Editor. In 1984, he became Managing Editor. Downie is a director of The Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service.
Lisa Frazier
Prior to joining as CEO of The Bay Citizen, Lisa Frazier was a partner at McKinsey & Company where she led the West Coast Media and Entertainment practice. During her close to nine years at McKinsey & Company, she served several of the leading online, broadcast and cable TV, newspaper, and information companies on a variety of issues, including growth strategy, operations, and marketing and sales.
She has also had the opportunity to support a number of non-profit organizations including the New York Fire Department post 9/11, the Robin Hood Foundation and others. Currently, Frazier is on the Board of Governors of The Commonwealth Club, the nation's oldest public forum. She is also an advisory board member to both The Texas Tribune, a Texas based non-profit public media organization, and Link TV, an organization focused on educating and activating the community about world events.
She holds an M.B.A. in strategy, marketing and finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
William Marimow
William Marimow is the editor and executive vice president of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Alan Mutter
Alan Mutter began his career as a newspaper columnist and editor in Chicago, starting at the Chicago Daily News and later rising to City Editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1984, he became the No. 2 editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. He left the newspaper business in 1988 to join InterMedia Partners, a start-up company that became one of the largest cable-TV companies in the U.S. Mutter was the COO of InterMedia when he moved to Silicon Valley in 1996 to lead the first of the three start-up companies he led as CEO.
The companies he headed were a pioneering Internet service provider and two enterprise-software companies. Mutter now is a consultant specializing in corporate initiatives and new media ventures that combine his twin passions, journalism and technology. He also is on the adjunct faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California- Berkeley, where he teaches a class entitled "Journalism in an Age of Disruption."
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal is the Executive Director of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
An award-winning journalist with nearly 40 years of experience, Rosenthal has worked for some of the most respected newspapers in the country, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer and, most recently, the San Francisco Chronicle.
As a reporter, his awards include the Overseas Press Club Award for magazine writing, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished foreign correspondence, and the National Association of Black Journalists Award for Third World Reporting.
Jack Shafer
Jack Shafer is a writer for the online magazine Slate. He currently edits and writes the column Press Box. Before joining Slate, he was editor for two city weeklies, Washington City Paper and SF Weekly.
John Thornton
John Thornton has been a software and media investor at Austin Ventures (AV) since 1990, and was the managing partner of the firm from 2005 to 2008. AV is the largest non-coastal venture capital firm in the U.S., with $4 billion under management. Prior to joining AV, he was with McKinsey & Co., where he served clients in the U.S. and Europe. He was a co-founder of the Austin Entrepreneur's Foundation; a former trustee of Ballet Austin, where he co-chaired a successful capital campaign; a former trustee of the Austin Museum of Art, where he chaired strategic planning; and a former trustee of Trinity University.
He currently serves on the advisory boards of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas and the New American Foundation. He graduated first in his class from Trinity University, and received an MBA from Stanford.
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