Aaron Glantz

At CASBS, Aaron Glantz will produce a series of investigative reports for the Guardian, focused on the United States’s largest integrated healthcare system,  the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Glantz will also write a book, What It Takes to Matter: A War Reporter’s Guide to Resilience, which mixes memoir and scientific research to show mission-driven professionals such as journalists, academics and lawyers how they can stay strong and make an impact in tough times. 

A two-time Peabody Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist, who has reported from a dozen countries, including Iraq, Glantz is known globally as a leader of investigative projects that drive impact. Projects he’s led have sparked new laws that curtailed the opioid epidemic, improved care for U.S. military veterans, and kept the FBI’s international war crimes office open. They have also prompted dozens of Congressional hearings and investigations by the FBI, DEA, and United Nations. His reporting has appeared in nearly every major media outlet, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, NPR, NBC News, ABC News, Reveal and the PBS Newshour, where his investigations have received three national Emmy nominations.

Glantz is author of four books, among them Homewreckers (Harper Collins, 2019), which probed hedge fund profiteering off the 2008 financial crisis.  As an executive-in-residence at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education he mentors a new generation of journalists of color. Glantz was a fellow at CASBS in 2024-25 and is a practitioner fellow in 2025-26.