Eric Nalder is an investigative reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and numerous other journalism awards. At the Seattle Times, he received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series of stories about corruption and waste in the federal government's Indian housing program, and the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for series of stories about oil tankers. For a 1993 investigation of U.S. Sen. Brock Adams he shared an Investigative Reporters and Editors award, the Associated Press Managing Editors Award, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the Headliner Award. The Brock Adams investigation was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category in 1992. For an investigation of the University of Washington football team, Nalder and a colleague won first prize for investigative reporting from the Associated Press Sports Editors. For an investigation of safety and security problems at the Hanford nuclear weapons plants, he won a National Sigma Delta Chi award in 1996. His book Tankers Full of Trouble won the 1995 Investigative Reporters and Editors book award and the Governor's Book Award. His work protecting whistle-blowers while bringing to light their concerns has been described in two books, Atomic Harvest by Michael D'Antonio and The Whistle-blowers by Myron and Penina Glazer. He is a native of Washington State, graduated from high school in Beirut, Lebanon and has a communications degree from the University of Washington. He was at the Seattle Times for 18 years and worked as a reporter in this Washington state for more than 30 years. He was employed previously at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Everett Herald.

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Seminar speeches given by Eric Nalder:

	Loosening Lips
	Diary of a two-day reporting effort
	Most Ferries Short of Life Rafts

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