A career investigative journalist, Wendell Rawls is director of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Previously he was the first national correspondent at The Philadelphia Inquirer where he won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1977. He went on to serve as Washington correspondent and then Southern Bureau chief of The New York Times and assistant managing editor for news at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also won the National Headliner Award for Outstanding Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award Grand Prize, the Heywood Broun Journalism Award and several other awards.
