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Veteran investigative journalist Roberta Baskin recently returned to ABC7/WJLA-TV as Director of the Investigative Team. During her distinguished journalism career, she has served as the Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, the senior Washington correspondent for “NOW with Bill Moyers,” senior investigative producer for the ABC News magazine 20/20, chief investigative correspondent for the CBS News magazine 48 Hours, and has contributed special reports to the CBS Evening News.
Roberta began her career as an investigative reporter in Chicago and Washington, DC.
Roberta has won more than 75 journalism prizes, including two duPont-Columbia University Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Radio-Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow Award, and numerous Emmy awards, including the Ted Yates Emmy Award for outstanding service to the community. But her proudest achieve-ments are righting wrongs, changing laws, and transforming the way companies do business.
Roberta has been honored with a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, and an Ethics Fellowship at the Poynter Institute. She’s active in journalism organizations and has been a popular guest lecturer internationally. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism for thirteen years, was elected to a term on the Board of Directors for Investigative Reporters and Editors, and has served on the Nieman Fellows Selection Committee. Roberta now serves on the Executive Committee of the Nieman Foundation’s Advisory Board, and is on the Board of Directors of the International Communications Forum. She also serves as a judge for the duPont-Columbia Awards and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Committee. She and her husband James Trengrove, a Senior Producer for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, have lived in Washington D.C. for the past 22 years. They have two teen-age daughters, Chelsea and Vanessa. When Roberta’s not working undercover, she likes to play underwater. She is an avid scuba diver and likes to ‘baskin’ the sun whenever she can.
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