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Ricardo Sandoval, who until recently led international investigative teams at the Center for Public Integrity, helped the ICIJ published Smoke Screen: Big Tobacco’s Global Lobbying,” in 2010. He has worked as an Assistant City Editor at the Sacramento Bee newspaper, and as a foreign correspondent, based in Mexico City, for the Dallas Morning News and Knight Ridder Newspapers. Sandoval’s career has spanned three decades and has included award-winning coverage of California agriculture, immigration, the savings and loan scandal and the deregulation of public utility companies. His awards include those from the Overseas Press Club, the InterAmerican Press Club, the Gerald Loeb prize for business journalism and two honors from the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. With his wife, journalist Susan Ferriss, Sandoval co-authored the biography “The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement” published in 1997 by Harcourt Brace. He is currently an investigator at Human Rights Watch.
