Christopher Drew

Christopher Drew is the co-author of “Blind Man’s Bluff,” a best-selling book about submarine spying during the Cold War. The book was on best-seller lists for nearly a year, and "60 Minutes" and the History Channel based shows on it. Drew also co-wrote "Into the Deep: A Memoir of the Man Who Found Titanic" with Robert D. Ballard, the famed ocean explorer. Drew was an investigative reporter and editor for The New York Times for 22 years in Washington and New York. Before that, he was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and The Times-Picayune in his native New Orleans. He received two awards for national reporting from the White House Correspondents’ Association and won a George Polk Award with other Times journalists for a series of stories about Navy SEALs. Drew taught investigative reporting at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism for 10 years as an adjunct professor. He now holds the Fred Jones Greer, Jr. Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication. He leads the school's experiential journalism curriculum, including its Statehouse Bureau and its racial and criminal-justice reporting programs.