About the
Howard Center

Greenblatt is a three-time Peabody award-winner who teaches how to report and collaborate on high-impact multimedia investigations. Prior to joining the Cronkite School he worked as senior national investigative correspondent in Washington D.C. for Scripps News, where for more than a decade he led investigations and mentored early-career journalists.  Greenblatt’s reports have earned the duPont-Columbia Award, the I.R.E. Medal, the Livingston Award, multiple national Edward R. Murrow Awards, two Sigma Delta Chi Awards, the national Emmy for investigative reporting and he has twice been named a finalist for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize (and has served on its five-member jury).  He currently serves as the elected Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), the world’s leading investigative journalism training organization.

Contact: mark.greenblatt@asu.edu

Mucciolo is the executive producer of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and teaches multimedia storytelling and investigative reporting at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She has made more than a dozen broadcast and digital films for PBS Frontline, many of which are co-productions with British broadcasters. Mucciolo is a five-time Emmy nominee who has won two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, an ONA award for storytelling innovation, a SXSW Jury Prize and a Best Director prize from the Royal Television Society, among other honors.

Contact: lauren.mucciolo@asu.edu

Downie is the former executive editor of The Washington Post. Downie led the newspaper to more Pulitzer Prizes than any other editor in history. A founding member of Investigative Reporters & Editors, he specialized in investigative reporting throughout his career and teaches Cronkite courses on accountability journalism.

Cohen came to the Cronkite School from The New York Times, where she served as data editor. She won a Pulitzer Prize at The Washington Post, where she also was data editor. Cohen was president of Investigative Reporters & Editors and served as the Knight Professor at Duke University. She teaches data journalism at Cronkite.

Foskett is an award-winning investigative reporter and editor who teaches the Techniques of Investigative Reporting skills class in Cronkite’s MA in Investigative Journalism program. Prior to coming to Cronkite, he spent 32 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, including work as a Washington correspondent, investigative reporter, senior editor for investigations and leader of the organization’s internship program. He is the past board chair of the Atlanta Press Club and president of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation. Foskett is author of a 2004 biography of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and he is a graduate of Yale College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Beelman was the founding executive editor of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism from January 2019 to mid 2023. She is the former U.S. Investigations Editor for The Associated Press and was the founding director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Beelman also directed investigations at The Dallas Morning News for 10 years and served as a domestic, foreign and war correspondent for AP. She has received numerous awards over a nearly four-decade career, including the George Polk, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Society of Professional Journalists and Online Journalism Awards.

Leslie was previously a staff attorney with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit association that provides legal assistance to journalists, and served as the organization’s legal defense director for 17 years. Leslie serves on the governing committee of the Communications Law Forum of the American Bar Association.