Our Journalists: United States

  • Rosental Calmon Alves, United States/Brazil, is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the first John S. & James L. Knight Chair in International Journalism. For a decade, Alves worked as a foreign correspondent for Brazil’s daily newspaper, Jornal do Brasil, reporting from Spain, Argentina, Mexico, and the United States. He taught journalism at two Rio de Janeiro universities and in 1987-88 became the first Brazilian to be selected as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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  • Ana Arana, United States, is an investigative journalist who reports on Latin American criminal organizations.

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  • Maud Beelman, United States, is deputy managing editor at The Dallas Morning News, where she directs a team of special projects reporters.

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  • David Burnham, United States, is an award-winning investigative reporter and the co-founder and co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which provides data on federal investigative and regulatory agencies.

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  • Pete Carey, United States, is an investigative and business reporter for the The (San Jose) Mercury News.

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  • David Donald, United States, is data editor at the Center for Public Integrity, where he oversees data analysis and computer-assisted reporting at the Washington-based investigative journalism nonprofit.

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  • Steven Dudley, United States, is co-director of InSight Crime, an online media initiative based at American University in Washington, D.C. that monitors and investigates organized crime in the Americas.

    Dudley is a senior fellow at American University's Center for Latin American and Latino Studies. Before that he was Andean Region bureau chief for the Miami Herald. Dudley has reported from Haiti, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba and Miami for many media outlets including National Public Radio, the BBC, the Economist and The Washington Post.

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  • Florence George Graves, United States, is founding director of The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, which includes the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project.

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  • Stephen Handelman, United States/Canada, is managing editor of Americas Quarterly, a journal specializing in Latin American affairs; executive editor of The Crime Report, the U.S.'s only online investigative news & resources site for criminal justice.

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  • Michael Hudson, USA, is a senior editor at ICIJ. His two decades of work on mortgage and banking fraud has prompted media critics to call him the reporter "who beat the world on subprime abuses" and the "guru of all things predatory lending." He previously worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and as an investigator for the Center for Responsible Lending. Hudson has also written for Forbes, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Mother Jones. His work has won many honors, including a George Polk Award for magazine reporting, a John Hancock Award for business journalism and accolades from the National Press Club, the White House Correspondents’ Association, the American Bar Association and the New York State Society of CPAs. He edited the award-winning book Merchants of Misery and appeared in the documentary film Maxed Out. His latest book, THE MONSTER: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis, was named 2010 Book of the Year by Baltimore City Paper and called "essential reading for anyone concerned with the mortgage crisis" by Library Journal. His recent series of stories for the Center, "The Great Mortgage Cover-Up," has been selected to appear in Columbia University Press's Best Business Writing, 2012. Read complete profile »

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