'Raising Questions; Finding Answers'
“Youcan have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have thepeople raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paidto do this, you're not going to find the answers." – Lowell Bergman
Born in New York City on July 24,1945 Bergman has had one of the most prestigious careers in Americanjournalism, working nearly 6 decades in print and television news and teachingjournalism while earning almost every major journalistic award.
A native of New York City, Bergman studiedat the University of Wisconsin and UC-San Diego and co-founded the San Diego Free Press. After stints at the San Francisco Examiner and RollingStone, he moved over to TV as a producer, reporter and then executive incharge of investigative reporting at ABC News. An original producer of 20/20, he joined CBS News as a producerfor 60 Minutes, where over the course of 14 years he produced more than50 stories, many Emmy winners.
His investigative story into thetobacco industry was chronicled in the film The Insider, a gripping taleof investigative journalism. Afterleaving CBS he worked 10 years as an investigative correspondent for The NewYork Times, winning a Pulitzer Prize for the series “A Dangerous Business,”which detailed a record of worker safety violations coupledwith the systematic violation of environmental laws in the cast-iron sewer andwater pipe industry.
Namedby the Society of Professional Journalists for its James Madison Freedom ofInformation Award for Career Achievement, Bergman retired in 2019.
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