most powerful women in Chicago journalism.<\/a><\/p>\nRichard Lobo, a former vice president and general manager of NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5, who chaired the search committee, said Richardson has \u201ca unique blend of experience in both nonprofit and commercial media, and a track record as an innovative leader in newsrooms big and small. She brings a fresh and bold outlook we need.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Center was founded in 1989 by Charles Lewis, former investigative reporter for ABC News and a producer for CBS News\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d Since then it has won several Pulitzer Prizes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Center has a proud legacy of hard-hitting journalism,\u201d Richardson said in a statement.\u201dI plan to build on that legacy, focusing on making our work more accessible and more relevant to communities across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a time of disinformation and disaffection with institutions, we have to rethink what issues we cover, how we cover them and whose stories define what is newsworthy, if we truly are to hold power to account.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Susan Smith Richardson, former editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter, has been named chief executive officer of the Center for Public Integrity. Her appointment, effective May 20, was announced today. Based in Washington, D.C., the nonprofit investigative journalism organization is marking its 30th year of exposing abuses of power by government and corporate interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21281,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275\/revisions\/21281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}