James West Center for Investigative Reporting

James West is Executive Editor at the U.S.-based Center for Investigative Reporting, publisher of the acclaimed magazine Mother Jones and the public radio show Reveal, heard on more than 500 stations across America. For over a decade leading the New York bureau, James has launched thriving video and social channels, podcasts, and innovative news formats, and produced stories that toppled Donald Trump’s modeling agency, exposed brutality in America’s private prisons, and uncovered animal abuse on Animal Planet sets. He began his career producing flagship news programs for Australia’s leading public broadcasters, and earned a journalism master’s from New York University. At CIR, he helps steer work that, just this year, earned Webbys, National Magazine Awards, duPonts, an Emmy, and a Pulitzer finalist nod.