Thought Leader: Maud Beelman

Maud Beelman is the Deputy Managing Editor for Projects and Enterprise at The Dallas Morning News. Her team's reports have won numerous state and national journalism awards for print and online media, including the Online News Association award for investigative reporting and the Sigma Delta Chi award for public service in online journalism. Maud was the founding director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a global network of investigative reporters, based at the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Before becoming an editor, Maud was an Associated Press reporter for 14 years, in the United States and abroad. She chronicled the reunification of Germany, the aftermath of the first Gulf war in Iran and Iraq and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Maud's work has been honored with a George Polk, an Investigative Reporters and Editors and a Sigma Delta Chi award. A native of New Orleans, Maud (also known to old friends and family as "Missy") has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a master's in communications from the University of Florida.

Maud has written the essay, The Value of Courage as part of the IVOH Voices & Values of Journalism Project - listen to and read the entire collection of essays here.

Maud's recent work and related links:

• Texas Youth Commission coverage

• Unequal Justice Project