Bruce Shapiro is Executive Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma, encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide. An award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice and politics, Shapiro is a contributing editor at The Nation and U.S. correspondent for Late Night Live on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. He has taught investigative journalism at Yale University and journalism ethics at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

In 1999 he co-founded the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and served as its executive director from 2006-2025, first at the University of Washington and then Columbia University. Shapiro's books include Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America and Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future, co-authored with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Jesse Jackson Jr. Shapiro is recipient of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Public Advocacy Award for "outstanding and fundamental contributions to the social understanding of trauma." He is a member of Columbia University's Society of Senior Scholars.

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