Staff



Staff

Robert Rosenthal, Executive Director
An award-winning journalist with nearly 40 years of experience, Rosenthal has worked for some of the most respected newspapers in the country, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer and, most recently, the San Francisco Chronicle. As a reporter, his awards include the Overseas Press Club Award for magazine writing, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished foreign correspondence, and the National Association of Black Journalists Award for Third World Reporting.
Carrie Ching, Web Producer
A former newspaper reporter and magazine editor, Carrie produces and manages multimedia reports for CIR's website and edits The Muckraker Blog. Prior to joining CIR, she produced video reports for Washingtonpost.com and Current TV. In 2000 she launched the online youth magazine WireTap (which later won a Webby Award in 2004). She completed a master's in journalism from UC Berkeley in 2005.
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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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Christa Scharfenberg, Associate Director
Christa works closely with the executive director on setting the strategic direction for the organizations, managing projects and fundraising. She joined CIR in 2003 and has served previously as acting executive director and communications director. She is senior producer of CIR's independent film "Banished," co-produced with Two Tone Productions, and executive producer of "Hot Politics" and "A Dangerous Business Update," documentary co-productions with PBS FRONTLINE.
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