Roberta Baskin

Who is Roberta Baskin?

Roberta Baskin is Chief Global Communications Officer for the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where she is developing the program Business as an Agent of World Benefit showcasing innovative exemplars. Until March 2014, Baskin served as the Director of Media Communications for the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services. A career investigative journalist, Baskin was the Director of the Investigative Team at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. until early 2009. 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 newsmagazine 20/20, chief investigative correspondent for the CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours, and contributed special reports to the CBS Evening News. Baskin began her career as an investigative reporter in Chicago.

Baskin has won more than 75 journalism prizes, including three duPont-Columbia University Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Radio-Television News Directors Edward R.