Journalist Lewis Simons Podcast – To Tell the Truth

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lewis M. Simons (Lew) has been a foreign correspondent and investigative journalist for half a century, reporting throughout Asia, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. He covered the Vietnam War, opened the world’s eyes to the terror in Tiananmen Square, was expelled from India for revealing Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s abuses and saved the life of a teen-aged Tibetan monk. Simons won the Pulitzer Prize for for exposing the billions that the Marcos family looted from the Philippines and led to the People Power Revolution and the fall of the government. Simons’ newest book, To Tell the Truth, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, chronicles those and many other extraordinary adventures.

Hear Lew discuss:

1. Why did you write To Tell the Truth?

2.What do you consider the most important story you ever covered?

3. Why did the Dalai Lama write the foreword to To Tell the Truth?

Takeaways for ongoing discussion:

1. Can Americans believe the news they read and view today?

2. What is the future of the free press in social media-obsessed America?