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Charles Lewis is a national investigative journalist; a former ABC News and 60 Minutes producer, best-selling author and founder of several nonprofit organizations, including the Investigative Reporting Workshop and before that the Center for Public Integrity and its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Lewis began the Center from his home, and grew it to a full-time staff of 40 people. Under his leadership, the Center published about 300 investigative reports, including 14 books, from 1989 through 2004, and won more than 30 national journalism honors. Named as “one of the 30 most notable investigative reporters in the U.S. since World War I” by the Encyclopedia of Journalism (Sage Publications; 2009), in 2009, Lewis helped to create the Investigative News Network (now the Institute for Nonprofit News), which now consists of approximately 100 nonprofit news publishers. He has been a Ferris Professor at Princeton University, a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. His most recent book is 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity (2014).