Lowell Bergman (born July 24, 1945) is the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Reporting at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and director of the Investigative Reporting Program, where he has taught a seminar dedicated to investigative reporting for over 20 years. He is also a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline. Bergman’s career spans nearly five decades, most notably as a producer, a reporter and then the director of investigative reporting at ABC News and as CBS News producer for 60 Minutes.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. Bergman has received honors for both print and broadcasting, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded to The New York Times in 2004 for "A Dangerous Business" which detailed a record of worker safety violations coupled with the systematic violation of environmental laws in the cast-iron sewer and water pipe industry. That story is the only winner of the Pulitzer Prize to also be acknowledged with every major award in broadcasting. The recipient of numerous Emmys, Bergman has also been honored with five Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver and Golden Baton awards, three Peabodys, a Polk Award, a Sidney Hillman Award for Labor Reporting, a Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism, the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism, a Mirror Award from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and the James Madison Freedom of Information Award for Career Achievement from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Former 60 Minutes (1993) producer whose role in one of the biggest corporate scandals in American history was dramatized by actor Al Pacino in the film The Insider (1999). Bergman had contacted Jeffrey Wigand (who had served as vice president for research and development at the Brown & Williamson tobacco company until he was fired in 1993) for an interview when Bergman was preparing a story about cigarettes. Bergman got his interview, but CBS executives decided not to run the story for fear of financial repercussions. The story was exposed by the New York Times in 1995. Berman left "60 Minutes" to teach at the University of California at Berkeley and to work on freelance investigative projects for television. In 1977 he co-founded the Center for Investigative Journalism in San Francisco.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
What's Happening to the News
2007
TV Movie documentary
Frontline/World
2002
TV Series documentary writer - 5 episodes
Blackout
2001/II
TV Movie documentary
Frontline
TV Series documentary 5 episodes, 2011 - 2015 writer - 15 episodes, 1998 - 2009 written by - 2 episodes, 2009 - 2012
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