Buzenberg worked for
National Public Radio from 1978 to 1997, serving as a foreign affairs correspondent and London bureau chief before becoming Vice President of News. At NPR, Buzenberg presided over the network's major expansion of breaking news coverage. He was also responsible for helping to launch
Talk of the Nation as well as a network core schedule of midday news/talk programming that was broadly adopted by NPR affiliates across the country. From 1998 through 2006, Buzenberg was senior vice president of news at
American Public Media and
Minnesota Public Radio. Buzenberg became executive director of the
Center for Public Integrity in January 2007. Buzenberg was co-editor of the memoirs of the late
CBS News president
Richard Salant. In 2014, Buzenberg was involved in a public spat with
ABC News over credit for a Pulitzer prize. In 2015, Buzenberg undertook a
Shorenstein Fellowship, writing about collaborative journalism. ==Awards and recognition==