Staff Reporters
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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Mark Katches, Editorial Director, California Watch
Mark Katches, a native California who worked for 20 years in the state as a reporter and editor, joins CIR from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where he helped start a nine-person investigative reporting team. Since joining that paper his team has won numerous national awards for investigative reporting including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. A graduate of San Jose State University, Katches started his career as a reporter and editor at the Peninsula Times Tribune, and went from there to the Los Angeles Daily News. While there he worked as a reporter in Sacramento, before joining the Orange County Register in 1996 as a Sacramento reporter covering the legislature, and the governor’s office. He became an investigative reporting editor at the Register. Katches served on the IRE board from 2004-2008.
G.W. Schulz, Reporter
Schulz joined CIR in 2008 and covers homeland security. Prior to joining CIR, he wrote extensively about politics, municipal corruption, workplace safety, criminal justice and the changing national landscape in news media for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Urban Tulsa, a weekly newspaper in Oklahoma. He was an early contributor to the Chauncey Bailey Project, which won an IRE Tom Renner Award in 2008. In 2007, he won first place for investigative reporting from the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the Public Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California. Schulz graduated from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.
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Andrew Becker, Reporter
Andrew covers the federal judiciary for CIR and is currently reporting on the immigration court system. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation Web site and MotherJones.com. Before joining CIR in 2008, he was a fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he reported on human smuggling and corruption along the Southwest border for a joint New York Times and PBS FRONTLINE/World production. Previously he was a reporter for the Contra Costa Times. He has also written and reported for the Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, FRONTLINE, KQED California Report, and Los Angeles magazine. He received a master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley.
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Shahien Nasiripour, Reporting Fellow
Shahien joined CIR in 2008 and covers the federal judiciary. His work at CIR has been published by Truthdig, California Lawyer magazine and the Columbia Journalism Review. Previously, he worked as a researcher for ESPN and as a reporter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Providence Journal. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
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Correspondents
Mimi Chakarova, Correspondent
Chakarova is a documentary photographer working on two long-term projects that examine the conflict in Kashmir and sex trafficking of women in Eastern Europe. She currently teaches photography at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and is the recipient of the 2003 Dorothea Lange Fellowship and the 2005 Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award. In 2007, she became the series curator of FRONTLINE/World's photography series, FlashPoint. In 2008, Chakarova's work on sex trafficking was awarded a People's Voice Webby. She was also a 2008 nominee for a News & Documentary Emmy Award. Chakarova's work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, CBS News 60 Minutes, PBS FRONTLINE/World and the Center for Investigative Reporting among others.
Michael Montgomery, Correspondent
Michael Montgomery has been a senior correspondent for American RadioWorks since 1999. A former foreign correspondent, Montgomery has reported on human rights, justice and security issues from Africa, Latin America, Europe and the United States. He's been reporting in the Balkans for more than 20 years. In addition to American RadioWorks, Montgomery’s radio stories and investigative reports have aired on NPR shows such as "All Things Considered," the CBC and the BBC. His print work on the Balkans has appeared in the Boston Review, Los Angeles Times and Time magazine. Montgomery is the recipient of the highest honors in U.S. broadcast journalism, including a DuPont-Columbia Gold Baton for "Massacre at Cuska."
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Anna Badkhen, Correspondent
Anna Badkhen has covered wars in Afghanistan, Somalia, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Chechnya and Kashmir. She has reported extensively from Iraq since 2003. Her book, "A War Reporter's Pantry," will be published in January 2011 by Free Press/Simon&Schuster. She lives in Massachusetts.
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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, Producer
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, Producer
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.