Board of Directors

2009 Board of Directors

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Board Chair

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, a former senior writer for U.S. News & World Report and contributing writer to the Los Angeles Times, was an Alicia Patterson Fellow in 1992. As a Pulitzer Traveling Fellow in 1986, she lived in Hungary and covered Central Europe for Newsweek and ABC Radio. A former journalism instructor at the American University School of Communication, she has written extensively for a number of major magazines and newspapers.

William Buzenberg, President

Bill Buzenberg became Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity in January 2007. He has been a journalist and news executive at newspapers and in public radio for more than 35 years. He was in charge of News for National Public Radio from 1990 to 1997, and the head of News at American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio from 1998 through 2006. He was responsible for launching such national programs as Talk of the Nation, American Radioworks, and Speaking of Faith. He was co-editor of the memoirs of CBS News President Richard Salant, Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism.

Ellen McPeake, Treasurer and Secretary

Ellen McPeake returned to the Center in November 2007 as its chief operating officer. She has spent most of her life in the nonprofit sector, working for such groups as the Center for Law and Social Policy, the Mental Health Law Project, Public Citizen, and most recently Greenpeace, as its chief operating officer. McPeake majored in international management at Georgetown University.

2008 Board of Directors

Bevis Longstreth, Board Chairman

Bevis Longstreth is a retired partner of Debevoise & Plimpton and a member of the board of trustees of New School University and the College Retirement Equities Fund. He served as a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner, a member of the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange, and adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Law.

Amy McCombs, Board Treasurer

Amy McCombs is the former president and chief executive officer of Heald College, an 11-campus private college serving 7,200 students. She has served as president and CEO of Chronicle Broadcasting Company and president and general manger of KRON-TV, prior to which she was a broadcast manager for the Washington Post Company in Michigan, Florida, and Connecticut.

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Board Secretary

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, senior writer of U.S. News & World Report and contributing writer to the Los Angeles Times, was an Alicia Patterson Fellow in 1992. As a Pulitzer Traveling Fellow in 1986, she lived in Hungary and covered Central Europe for Newsweek and ABC Radio. A former journalism instructor at the American University School of Communication, she has written extensively for a number of major magazines and newspapers.

Charles Lewis

Charles Lewis is the president of the Fund for Independence in Journalism and co-author of five books, including the bestseller, The Buying of the President 2004 (HarperCollins). He founded and for 15 years was the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative reporting organization. From l977 to l988 he did investigative reporting at ABC News and CBS News's 60 Minutes. In 1998, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and in 2004 received the PEN USA First Amendment award.

William Buzenberg

Bill Buzenberg became Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity in January 2007. He has been a journalist and news executive at newspapers and in public radio for more than 35 years. He was in charge of News for National Public Radio from 1990 to 1997, and the head of News at American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio from 1998 through 2006. He was responsible for launching such national programs as Talk of the Nation, American Radioworks, and Speaking of Faith. He was co-editor of the memoirs of CBS News President Richard Salant, Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism.

Sheila Coronel

Sheila Coronel is the director of The Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.  For 16 years she was the co-founder and director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and the Creative Communication Arts in 2003.

Susan Loewenberg

Susan Loewenberg is the founder and producing director of L.A. Theatre Works, a nonprofit organization that provides cultural programming for public radio and outreach programming for children and at-risk youth. She has produced over 500 hours of radio dramas broadcast on National Public Radio, the BBC, Voice of America and other outlets.

John Newman

John Newman, a businessman with investments in information and publishing companies, is the president of the John and Florence Newman Foundation, located in San Antonio, Texas. He is active in many educational, health-related and cultural nonprofit organizations.

Geneva Overholser

Geneva Overholser holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, in its Washington, D.C., bureau. She is a former editor of the Des Moines Register, ombudsman of the Washington Post, and editorial board member of the New York Times. A regular media commentator, she has also been a Nieman fellow at Harvard, Congressional Fellow with the American Political Science, and an officer of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Allen Pusey

Allen Pusey, managing editor of the American Bar Association Journal, formerly special projects editor for the Washington Bureau of The Dallas Morning News and Belo Broadcasting, was one of the first reporters to uncover the Savings & Loan scandal in the early 1980s. Pusey has received numerous awards for his coverage of local and national issues.

Paul A. Volcker

Paul A. Volcker, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee, served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He is former North American Chairman of The Trilateral Commission and former Chairman of Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., as well as Professor Emeritus of International Economic Policy at Princeton University. He divided the earlier stages of his career between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Chase Manhattan Bank, and the U.S. Treasury Department.