An Evening with Lowell Bergman

Join PBS for an in-studio conversation with Lowell Bergman, exploring the state of modern journalism, news and information in the internet age, and more.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and Emmy Award-winning television producer, Bergman’s longstanding career includes producing stories for FRONTLINE on PBS, 60 Minutes on CBS, and The New York Times. He was portrayed by Al Pacino in the Academy Award-nominated film The Insider. Hear behind-the-scenes stories and join the conversation during the audience Q&A in an intimate studio setting at PBS KVIE in Sacramento.

About Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is the Emeritus Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Journalism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism where he taught its first class in investigative reporting in 1991 and founded the school’s Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) in 2006. Retiring from the chair in 2019, he continues as President of the board of Investigative Studios, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the IRP.

Bergman spent three decades working in national television news with ABC, then CBS’ 60 Minutes, and PBS’ documentary series FRONTLINE. His work has been honored with multiple Emmys, duPonts, and Peabody’s. His 60 Minutes investigation of the tobacco industry was dramatized in 1999 in the Academy Award-nominated feature film The Insider. In 2004, The New York Times received journalism’s highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, for his work with David Barstow and two Berkeley graduate students on “A Dangerous Business,” which detailed thousands of egregious worker safety and environmental violations in the iron pipe and other industries. The documentary also received every major award in broadcasting. Bergman was a New York Times correspondent until 2008 and a senior producer and consultant to FRONTLINE until 2015.