Jeffrey Dvorkin

Jeffrey A. Dvorkin (born September 15, 1946 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian-American journalist.

A former Vice President of News and ombudsman for National Public Radio , Dvorkin moved to the United States in 1997 following a lengthy career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto and Montreal, where he was Managing Editor and Chief Journalist for CBC Radio.

Since the early 1990s, Dvorkin has served as an international consultant and educator, advocating for a free press along with colleagues from around the world. Dvorkin is also a past president of the Organization of News Ombudsmen. While serving as NPR's ombudsman, Dvorkin authored a popular and well-regarded column on issues pertaining to journalistic ethics. He also co-authored with Prof. Alan Stavitsky of the University of Oregon the Ethics Guide for Public Radio under the auspices of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, for which Dvorkin has contributed a number of studies on objectivity and balance.

In 2006, Dvorkin was named Executive Director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists based in Washington, D.C. and professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Dvorkin resigned in July 2007 to be an adjunct professor of media ethics and faculty adviser for four student newspaper at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is a Fellow of the Georgetown-based Pearl Project - an investigative project looking into the murder of Danny Pearl and other journalists around the world. Dvorkin continues to serve as a lecturer and discussant on issues of journalistic ethics and practices with news organizations, and at universities around the world.

In May 2008, Dvorkin served briefly as the Executive Director of Journalism for the online video news service, The Real News . Dvorkin left The Real News in August 2008, when he was named to be the Rogers Communications Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism and Professor of Distinction at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada .

Dvorkin blogs at Now The Details and recently returned to CBC Radio as a media analyst for the CBC's US election night special. Dvorkin is also an advisor to the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, a group involved with the mental health issues of journalists in general and war correspondents in particular. In May 2009, Dvorkin was named first Executive Director of the Organization of News Ombudsmen, at ONO's annual conference in Washington, DC.

Dvorkin graduated from the University of Alberta with an Honours B.A. in History and French. He has an M.A. in Modern European History from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Philosophy in Modern History from the London School of Economics.