show bio Wendell Rawls

A career investigative journalist, Wendell Rawls is director of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Previously he was the first national correspondent at The Philadelphia Inquirer where he won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1977. He went on to serve as 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.

Debating Ethics Reform on Capitol Hill
Date: 3/14/2007

Wendell Rawls, head of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., discusses the national debate on ethics reform in the halls of Congress and in state legislatures throughout the country. Rawls also recalls memories of traveling to Arkansas to cover Bill Clinton’s congressional race in the late 1970s and returning to cover his run for the White House in 1992.