David Burnham
Board Member, Emeritus
David Burnham is the co-director of Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). With The New York Times from 1968 to 1986, Mr. Burnham wrote numerous prize winning investigative pieces including those depicted in "Serpico," and "Silkwood." He has been inducted into the Freedom Forum's National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame, and honored with the Polk Award, the Patterson Fellowship, and the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, among others. He is the author of several books including Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice, and A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics and the IRS.