

GIJN Board Chair Brant Houston (left) bestows the "GIJN Award for Extraordinary Service to International Investigative Journalism" to Chuck Lewis, who founded the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Accepting on Lewis' behalf are his wife, Pamela, and son, Gabriel. Image: GIJN
GIJN Co-Hosts International Journalists, Honors Investigative Reporter Chuck Lewis at IRE24
More than five dozen journalists and editors from 20 different countries around the world joined GIJN staff at the International Luncheon on Friday, June 21, at the 2024 Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference in Anaheim California.

More than five dozen journalists from 20 countries joined GIJN staff at the IRE24 International Luncheon. Image: GIJN
GIJN co-hosted the IRE event along with several other organizations, who generously donated funds to hold the luncheon. These groups included the University of Missouri School of Journalism, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the Park Foundation, and the Reva and David Logan Foundation.
After welcome remarks from IRE Executive Director Diana Fuentes, GIJN board chair Brant Houston emceed the event and led a procession of speakers honoring groundbreaking investigative reporter and editor Chuck Lewis, who was recognized with the “GIJN Award for Extraordinary Service to International Investigative Journalism” at the luncheon. During his career, Lewis was responsible for founding two of the most important nonprofit investigative journalism sites in the profession, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Lewis’ wife, Pamela, and son, Gabriel, attended the luncheon and accepted the award on his behalf.
Among those who spoke about the impact of Lewis on their personal careers and nonprofit investigative journalism as a whole were: Houston; Mark Horvit, professor of investigative journalism at the University of Missouri; Maud Beelman, ICIJ member and founding executive editor of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University; Carla Minet, executive director of the Centro de Periodico Investigative, Puerto Rico; Drew Sullivan, OCCRP co-founder and publisher; Jennifer LaFleur, CPI senior editor and assistant professor at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism; and John Sullivan, senior editor at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, based at American University.
A gallery of photos from the event are below.