Bob Williams
Strategic Resource Director and HearUsNow.org
Bob Williams is a writer, blogger and web site manager for Consumers Union/Consumer Reports. He writes and blogs for Consumer Reports and Consumer Reports Online on a variety of issues including product safety, health, electronics and telecommunications. He runs www.hearusnow.org, a CU web site dedicated to communications and media issues from the consumer point of view. Bob came to Consumers Union in July 2006. Prior to joining CU he was a project director and investigative reporter with the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC. While there he headed a one year project on the oil industry that received the 2005 Society of Professional Journalists award for online investigative reporting. He also supervised or played a leading role in several other CPI projects that won national journalism awards. Prior to that he was a reporter at the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., where he covered everything from hurricanes to hog waste. He was part of a team that won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting on the hog industry in North Carolina. He also led the paper’s coverage of Hurricane Floyd, which was a Pulitzer finalist for breaking news in 1999. Before joining the News & Observer, he worked for Crain’s Communications as a Washington correspondent and operated his own business, publishing real estate newsletters. He has won numerous national and regional journalism awards and has conducted several seminars at the national conference of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
He was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in 2001, and was a member of the first class of ethics fellows at the Poynter Institute, also in 2001. Williams is a graduate of Radford University in Virginia, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
He lives in Arlington, VA, with his wife Susan, who is an editor for the Washington Post Sunday Magazine. They have an 80-pound dog named Holly, who rules over the household.
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