James G Wright

James G. Wright is an American screenwriter, author and journalist best known for his role in leading the investigation that exposed casino magnate Sheldon Adelson's secret purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and covert efforts to undermine the Nevada judiciary, as recounted in the 2017 documentary Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press. He also was the subject of a lawsuit that led to Idaho Supreme Court ruling in Schilling v. Wright , which established limited newsman's privilege in that state in 1985. Wright is a senior editor with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the 2016-17 academic year he was a Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where researched the influence of political mega-donors on American foreign policy. Previously, he was a reporter and editor specializing in investigative reporting and coverage of government and politics at metropolitan newspapers in Denver, San Diego, Seattle and Albany, New York; as well as a media management consultant in Algeria and editor of the Twin Falls, Idaho, Times-News. Among other awards, he has received the Northwestern University James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism; the national Society of Professional Journalists Ethics in Journalism Award; the John B. Oakes Award for environmental writing; the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Champion of Justice Award and a regional Emmy award. Wright holds a masters' in public administration from the University of Colorado at Denver (1990) and a BS in journalism from the University of Idaho (1980).