Len Bruzzese is the executive director of AHCJ and its Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. He is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and serves on the executive committee of the Council of National Journalism Organizations. Bruzzese, a founding staff member of USA Today, spent 20 years in daily journalism before entering the nonprofit and academic worlds. He served as deputy director of Investigative Reporters & Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting before helping base AHCJ at the Missouri School of Journalism in 2005. He is co-author of “The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook,” (fourth edition), and has edited 15 reporter beat books focused on different reporting topics of use to daily journalists. Bruzzese’s journalism career included writing, editing and management stints at USA Today, The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, Gannett News Service (Washington, D.C.) and The Olympian in Olympia, Wash.