Daniel Zwerdling

Daniel Zwerdling is an American investigative journalist. In 2006 and 2007, he reported that officers at Fort Carson were punishing soldiers, returning from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan with post traumatic stress disorder and other serious mental health problems.

Life
From 2002 to 2004, he was NPR's television correspondent on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers, on PBS. There was some controversy about his layoff in 2002. From 1999 to 2002, he was an investigative reporter for RadioWorks, NPR News. From 1993 to 1999, he was senior host of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. He was a staff writer at The New Republic and a freelance reporter.

He was an adjunct professor of Media Ethics at American University, and an associate of the Bard College Institute for Language and Thinking in New York. His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books.

Awards

 * 2007 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
 * 2008 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
 * George Foster Peabody Award
 * Edward R. Murrow Award
 * Investigative Reporters and Editors for investigative reporting
 * Overseas Press Club Foundation award for live coverage of breaking international news
 * American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award
 * National Press Club Award for consumer reporting
 * Ohio State awards for international reporting
 * James Beard award for reporting on the food industry
 * Champion-Tuck Award for economic reporting.

Works

 * Workplace Democracy (Harper & Row, 1980)