Florence Graves
| Florence George Graves | |
|---|---|
| Born | Florence George Graves |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Arizona, University of Texas at Austin |
| Known for | Investigative Journalist |
Florence George Graves is an American journalist and the founding director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.
She is an award-winning investigative reporter and editor whose work focuses on exposing abuses of government and corporate power, and on revealing inequities between the powerful and the powerless. She also is a Resident Scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center.[1] As an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, she and a colleague broke the Senator Bob Packwood sexual misconduct story,[2] which led to an historic three-year Senate investigation followed by a Senate Ethics Committee vote to expel him and then his forced resignation. She has received a number of prestigious fellowship awards, including from the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship [3] in 1993 and the Pope Foundation. She founded the award-winning and nationally circulated political and investigative journal, Common Cause Magazine.[4] Her work there led to congressional hearings[5] and to reforms in public policies, and has received such prestigious awards as the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award[5] and the 1987 National Magazine Award for General Excellence,[6][7] the highest award given in magazine journalism.
References
- ↑ Resident Scholars at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center
- ↑ The Reporter Who Knew Too Much
- ↑ Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
- ↑ Common Cause Magazine Online
- 1 2 Puchalla, Debra (March 1997). "The Little Magazine That Could". American Journalism Review archive. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ↑ "National Magazine Award Winners 1966-2015". MPA – the Association of Magazine Media. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ↑ Birnbaum, Jeffrey H. (19 February 2008). "Common Cause, Washington Monthly Explore a Common Future". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- Kemper, Vicki (Winter 1995). "The reporter who knew too much: how Florence George Graves developed the Packwood story - ex-Sen. Bob Packwood's sexual miscoduct". Common Cause Magazine. Retrieved 2007-06-20.
- Harvard University Gazette, February 08, 1996 – Radcliffe Public Policy Fellows Address Varied Issues