David Boardman is an assistant managing editor of The Seattle Times, and will become managing editor July 1. His current responsibilities include oversight of investigative and computer-assisted reporting, the Sports and Business departments, news research and the newspaper's legal matters. Boardman has directed two Pulitzer Prize-winning team projects and edited four other stories that were Pulitzer finalists. The winners were an investigation of abuses in the federal tribal-housing program, which won the 1997 Pulitzer for investigative reporting, and coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath, which won the 1990 Pulitzer for national reporting. The finalists were a series on ethical and medical problems in human experiments at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (2002), an examination of the effects of affirmative-action policies (1999), an investigation on how hazardous industrial wastes are turned into fertilizers (1998) and an expose' of sexual misconduct by U.S. Sen. Brock Adams (1993). Boardman also has been the recipient of numerous other major national awards, including the Goldsmith Prize in Investigative Reporting from Harvard University, the Worth Bingham Prize in Investigative Reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and the Associated Press Managing Editors Public Service Award. He is vice president of the Board of Directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors, and a member of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Board. Boardman has been a reporter and editor at several papers in the Northwest, and worked on a construction project in Liberia, West Africa. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and has a graduate degree from the University of Washington.

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Seminar speeches given by David Boardman:

Birthing the Big Story

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