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Roberta Baskin is an investigative reporter, who until early 2009 was the Director of the Investigative Team at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.. As of late 2010 she has been working in the Department of Health and Human Service's office of inspector general as a senior communications adviser. She has served as the Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, the senior Washington correspondent for NOW with Bill Moyers, senior investigative producer for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20, chief investigative correspondent for the CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours, and contributed special reports to the CBS Evening News. Baskin began her career as an investigative reporter in Chicago and Washington D.C.
Baskin has won more than 75 journalism prizes, including three duPont-Columbia University Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Radio-Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow Award, and numerous Emmy awards, including the Ted Yates Emmy Award for outstanding service to the community.
Baskin has been honored with a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, and an Ethics Fellowship at the Poynter Institute. She is active in journalism organizations and has been a guest lecturer internationally. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism for thirteen years, was elected to a term on the Board of Directors for Investigative Reporters and Editors, and has served on the Nieman Fellows Selection Committee. She now serves on the Executive Committee of the Nieman Foundation's Advisory Board, and is on the Board of Directors of the International Communications Forum-America, and Images and Voices of Hope. She also serves as a juror for the duPont-Columbia Awards and Chairs the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Committee.
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