William "Bill" Buzenberg is a journalist and news executive. He is the former executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a post from which he stepped down at the end of 2014.

Education

Buzenberg is a graduate of

Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public inst ...

. He is a former

Peace Corps The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order of President John ...

volunteer, and he has been awarded fellowships at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

and

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

Career

Buzenberg worked for

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from 1978 to 1997, serving as a foreign affairs correspondent and London bureau chief before becoming Vice President of News. At NPR, Buzenberg presided over the network's major expansion of breaking news coverage. He was also responsible for helping to launch '' Talk of the Nation'' as well as a network core schedule of midday news/talk programming that was broadly adopted by NPR affiliates across the country. From 1998 through 2006, Buzenberg was senior vice president of news at American Public Media and Minnesota Public Radio. Buzenberg became executive director of the Center for Public Integrity in January 2007. Buzenberg was co-editor of the memoirs of the late

CBS News CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the '' CBS Evening News'', '' CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 4 ...

president Richard Salant. Buzenberg serves on the board of directors of the Institute for Nonprofit News. In 2014, Buzenberg was involved in a public spat with

ABC News ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast '' ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include morning news-talk show '' Good Morning America'', '' ...

over credit for a Pulitzer prize. In 2015, Buzenberg undertook a Shorenstein Fellowship, writing about collaborative journalism.

Awards and recognition

In October 2016, Buzenberg was one of 18 individuals selected to participate in a summit through the American Press Institute.

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners Peace Corps volunteers Kansas State University alumni University of Michigan fellows {{US-journalist-stub