Staff Reporters
Will Evans, Staff Reporter
Will currently covers money and politics, and previously reported on judicial conflicts of interest. His work at CIR has been published by the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Salon.com, Politico, ABCNews.com and the CBS Evening News. Before coming to CIR in 2005, Will was a reporter at The Sacramento Bee for three years, where his reporting won first place in the Best of the West competition. Will has also written for the national Chilean newspaper La Tercera.
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Craig Pyes, Senior Correspondent
Craig specializes in international investigations at CIR. He shared two Pulitzer Prizes for New York Times reporting on the threat of Al Qaeda prior to 9/11 and the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico. Craig has worked as an off-air investigative producer for CBS 60 Minutes, NBC Dateline, and ABC Primetime Live. He is the former co-director of CIR's Human Rights Project. Before that, he was a staff investigative reporter for the Albuquerque Journal.
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Mark Schapiro, Editorial Director
Schapiro has been an investigative journalist for more than two decades and has built an award-winning track record with a focus on environmental and international affairs. His work has appeared in Harper's, The Nation, Mother Jones, and The Atlantic Monthly. He's also been a correspondent on NOW with Bill Moyers, FRONTLINE/World, and Marketplace. His new book, Exposed, was published by Chelsea Green in September 2007.
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Correspondents
A.C. Thompson
A veteran of the alternative weeklies, A.C. spent nine years writing for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly. He is co-author of Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (Melville House 2006), the first book about the agency’s secret anti-terror program. He was recipient of the 2005 George Polk award for local reporting.
Deborah Amos
Deborah Amos covers Iraq for NPR News. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She has returned to work with NPR after a decade in television news, including ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight and the PBS programs NOW with Bill Moyers and Frontline.
Robert O Harrow Jr., CIR Senior Advisor
Robert O'Harrow is a reporter on the financial desk of the Washington Post, where he created a beat covering information technology, marketing and privacy. He worked as lead reporter for "No Place to Hide" under CIR sponsorship. O'Harrow was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for a series of Post articles in 2000 on privacy and technology. Before joining the Post in 1990, he reported for The Record (Bergen County, NJ) and The Times Herald-Record (Orange County, NY).
Peter Bull
Peter Bull has been producing, writing and directing long-form documentaries and public affairs programs for public, network, and cable television for twenty years. Most recently, Bull wrote and produced “Hot Politics”, a one-hour FRONTLINE documentary about the politics of global warming. In 2002, Bull helped to launch the weekly PBS public affairs program NOW with Bill Moyers. Prior to NOW, Bull was a staff producer in the long-form documentary unit at ABC News for nine years.
Justin Weinstein
Justin is a documentary producer who specializes in reporting on science and environmental subjects. He has worked on projects for PBS, National Geographic, ABC News Peter Jennings Reporting, as well as independent films. Recent projects include a 2-hour special for ABC News and FRONTLINE's "Hot Politics." He has a B.F.A in film-making from NYU and a Ph.D. in biological sciences from Columbia University.