Mark Schapiro
Senior Correspondent
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 publications such as Harper's, The Nation, Mother Jones, and The Atlantic Monthly; on television, as a correspondent for NOW with Bill Moyers and FRONTLINE/World; and on radio, as a correspondent for Marketplace. His cover story in December for The Nation, “New Power for ‘Old Europe,’” and series for public radio’s Marketplace, “Brussels Clout,” attracted wide interest and served as the springboard for an expanded investigation into the growing influence of the European Union insetting international environment, health and safety regulations. The resulting book, Exposed, was published by Chelsea Green Publishing in September 2007. His investigation for Frontline/World into the sinking of the Prestige oil tanker and the maritime system that made it possible was disseminated widely inside the European Parliament, and received an award from the Society of Environmental Journalists. Mark has worked and lived in and out of Europe for some 20 years, as a reporter and as founding editor of InterNation, a consortium of journalists producing international investigative stories.


CIR Investigations:
The number of nations seeking nuclear technology is rising. An hour-long radio documentary by CIR and American RadioWorks investigates the m ...
Mark Schapiro's new book Exposed investigates how corporations intent on thwarting stricter environmental and health guidelines here ...
Asher Karni was sentenced August 4 to three years in federal prison for his role in a plot to export nuclear weapons parts to Pakistan. Thri ...
The case of Asher Karni reveals disturbing shortcomings in the international non-proliferation system.
For many island states, the tsunami hit like a fast-action version of what they have long feared would be the result of global warming. CIR' ...
The E.U. is confronting American manufacturers with a dilemma -- conform to Europe’s stricter health and environmental standards, or give ...
CIR's Mark Shapiro reports on aging and neglected oil tankers which have the potential for creating environmental catastrophes at sea.
The sinking of the oil tanker Prestige off the Spanish coast last year caused one of Europe's worst ecological disasters. "The Lawless Sea, ...
The word “science” evokes a world of men and women driven by curiosity to explore the cosmos, the magic of chemical interactions, the de ...
An investigation into the controversy surrounding the discovery of genes from genetically altered corn in the croplands of Capulalpan, Mexic ...

Other Reporting:
Brussels Big Time
The capital of Belgium is also the center of the EU, the world's largest and most affluent market. Mark Schapiro confirms the age-old adag...
All the City's a Stage
An eccentric mayor with a flair for the dramatic is bringing hope to a notoriously troubled capital.
Drug War on Trial
A new counteroffensive has been launched in the drug war: Financiers have begun to retaliate against allegations of money laundering and d...
Serbia's Lost Generation
Thousands of Serbian draft evaders fled to Hungary rather than fight in Milosevic's dirty war. Now they find themselves in limbo-with no w...
Traumatized Refugees Build a Camp Metropolis
As NATO troops go back to war, residents develop their own civilization.