The Team
Project manager: Steve Weinberg is a book author, magazine feature writer, and arts reviewer who lives in Columbia, Mo. After graduating from the University of Missouri Journalism School in 1970, he worked eight years as a newspaper and magazine staff writer. Since 1978, he has been freelancing. From 1983-1990, he also served as executive director of Investigative Reporters & Editors, an international journalists' organization with headquarters in Columbia, and edited the organization's magazine through 1999. Since 1978, he has taught basic reporting, investigative reporting, critical reviewing, and feature writing off and on at the Missouri Journalism School. Weinberg is the author of seven nonfiction books, including a biography of Armand Hammer published by Little, Brown in 1989. Currently, Weinberg is completing a biography of Ida Tarbell under contract to W.W. Norton.
Deputy project manager: Neil Gordon graduated from the University of Delaware in 1992 where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Golden Key National Honor Society. In 1995, he graduated cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Until May 2000 when he joined the Center for Public Integrity, Gordon was an associate at the Baltimore Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos where he worked on several tobacco cases representing various parties, including the state of Maryland, who were suing the tobacco companies.
Writer: Brooke Williams graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in December 2001. While attending college, she worked as a police and courts reporter and a sports reporter for the Columbia Missourian, a morning newspaper. From September to December 2001, she was the Washington DC correspondent for the Daily Herald, a suburban Chicago newspaper, and the Topeka Capital-Journal, a Kansas newspaper. She joined the Center for Public Integrity staff in early 2002.
Researchers: Caleb Gauen, L'Kenya Jackson, Kathleen Liu, Julia Picard, Sara Towles, Rebecca Wein
Research Assistance: AgustÃn Armendariz, Ben Coates, Bob Fagen, Morgan Jindrich, Daniel Lathrop, Alicia Oman, Katharine Widland
Executive director: Charles Lewis
Managing editor: Bill Allison
Deputy managing editor: Teo Furtado
Database editor: Aron Pilhofer
Research editor: Peter Newbatt Smith
Web developer: Han Nguyen
Graphic artist: Jonathan Werve
IT Manager: Javed Khan