Lorie Hearn
CEO, Editor & Founder
inewsource
About Lorie Hearn
Lorie Hearn founded inewsource, an investigative nonprofit newsroom, in 2009, after decades of working for newspapers on both coasts. She retired from The San Diego Union-Tribune, where she had been a reporter, Metro Editor and senior editor for Metro and Watchdog Journalism. Her staff members were part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning stories that exposed Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham for taking bribes from government contractors.
A graduate of the University of Delaware, Lorie was a Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard University, 1994-95. inewsource was a founding member of INN, and Lorie serves on the INN Standards Task Force.
