Podcast: Former WP Editor Len Downie outlines history of U.S. investigative biz reporting

Leonard Downie Jr.

Leonard Downie Jr. spent 44 years at The Washington Post, serving as executive editor from 1991 to 2008, a tenure during which the paper won 25 Pulitzer Prizes. He was an investigative reporter, editor on the local and national news staffs, London correspondent and managing editor and helped supervise the newspaper’s Watergate coverage.

He is vice president-at-large of the Post and  Weil Family Professor of Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He gave this lecture, outlining the history of investigative business journalism in the United States on March 4, 2010, to 23 international journalists, studying business and economics reporting in the United States at the invitation of the State Department.