David Burnham

David Burnham (* 1933 ) is an American author and investigative journalist based in Washington, DC . He attended Harvard University and began working as a journalist in 1958. He became known in 1970 when he wrote a series of articles for The New York Times on police corruption. He is also known for his series of articles on the union activist Karen Silkwood .

He is co-founder and one of the directors of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a project of the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University .

Awards and honors

• 1968: George Polk Award for Community Service
• 1972: Newspaper Reporters Association of New York City Schaefer Gold Typewriter Award for Public Service
• 1987: Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship
• 1990: Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Best Book: A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics, and the IRS
• 1992: Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy
• 2003: John Jay College of Criminal Justice Honorary Doctorate in Humanities
• 2006: Induced into the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame

bibliography

Books

• The Rise of the Computer State. Random House, New York 1983. ISBN 978-0394514376
• A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics, and the IRS. Random House, New York 1989. ISBN 978-0394560977
• Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and Other Misadventures of the US Department of Justice. Scribner, New York 1996. ISBN 978-0684806990

Selected items

• "Graft Paid to Police Here Said to Run Into Millions." The New York Times, April 25, 1970.
• "Death of Plutonium Worker Questioned by Union Official." The New York Times, November 19, 1974.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} David Burnham .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Christopher H. Sterling (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Journalism ( en ). SAGE Publications, September 25, 2009, ISBN 9781452261522 .
3. ↑ George Polk Awards Past Award Winners ( en )
4. ^ Times Reporter Wins Prize For Articles on Police Graft . In: The New York Times , May 20, 1972. 
5. ↑ David Burnham .
6. ↑ 1990 IRE Award Winners .
7. ↑ Commencement 2015 . June 3, 2015. Archived from the original on June 12, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 8, 2017. 
8. ↑ David Burnham ( en-US ) Archived from the original on January 10, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 8, 2017.