Huck Boyd Lecture Series Bio: Bill Buzenberg, the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., was the speaker for the eighth annual Huck Boyd Lecture in Community Media Sept. 20, 2007, at Kansas State University. The topic of Buzenberg's address was "Independent Media Matter — To You and the World." The purpose of the lecture is to recognize the role of community journalists in helping to keep their communities strong. Buzenberg became executive director of the watchdog investigative journalism organization, the Center for Public Integrity, in January 2007. He has been a correspondent, editor, and news executive at newspapers and in public radio for more than 35 years. Most recently, as senior vice president of news at American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio, Buzenberg launched such programming initiatives as American RadioWorks, public radio's major documentary and investigative journalism unit, and Speaking of Faith, public radio's signature program on religion. He also began Public Insight Journalism, an innovative use of technology to draw knowledge from the audience. Buzenberg was vice president of news and information at National Public Radio from 1990 to 1997. He was responsible for launching Talk of the Nation, as well as the expansion of All Things Considered and the extension of NPR's newscasts services to 24 hours a day. During his tenure, the NPR News Division was honored with nine DuPont-Columbia Batons and 10 Peabody Awards. Buzenberg joined NPR in 1978 as the first reporter to help start Morning Edition. For 11 years, he was a foreign affairs correspondent based mostly in Washington, D.C. He was named London bureau chief in 1986 and became NPR's first managing editor in 1989. He began his journalism career in newspapers, working for a brief time for the Manhattan Mercury and the Topeka Daily Capital, as well as for five years on the Colorado Springs Sun where he was City Editor in the early to mid 1970s. Buzenberg was a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia from 1968 to 1970. He has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award, public radio's highest honor. He was co-editor of the memoirs of the late CBS News President Richard Salant. Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism was published in 1998 by Westview Press. A Manhattan, Kan. native and graduate of Kansas State University, Buzenberg has also studied at the University of Michigan as part of its mid-career professional journalism fellowship program, in the M.A. program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy, and as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.