Wendell
Rawls is managing director of The Center for Public Integrity and
director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. A
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and editor, his career spans
more than 35 years in journalism and media, beginning in 1967 at The Nashville
Tennessean.
Mr. Rawls was the first national correspondent at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1977; a Washington correspondent and then Southern Bureau chief of The New York Times; and assistant managing editor for news at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also won the National Headliner Award for Outstanding Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award Grand Prize, the Heywood Broun Journalism Award and several other awards. While he was an editor in Atlanta, Mr. Rawls’s staff produced a Pulitzer Prize winner and four additional Pulitzer Prize finalists in two years.
He is the author of one book, Cold Storage; has written for magazines, motion pictures and episodic television (Law & Order); and has produced several television movies. Most recently, Mr. Rawls was a professor in the School of Journalism at Middle Tennessee State University. He occupied the Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies at MTSU in 2001.
