Duff Wilson

Duff Wilson is an American investigative reporter, formerly with The New York Times,[1] later with Reuters. He is the first two-time winner of the Harvard University Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting,[2] a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, and a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Education

Wilson graduated from Western Washington University in 1976, and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1982.[3][4]

Career

He has worked for The Seattle Times, The New York Times and Reuters and has served on the board of Investigative Reporters and Editors.[5] Since 2010 he has taught investigative reporting at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[6] Wilson joined The New York Times in 2004. During his time there, Wilson covered topics such as pharmaceutical and tobacco industries along with sports-related investigations, mainly steroids. One article he wrote about the Duke Lacrosse Case garnered criticism, as the case unraveled.[7][8] Prior to working for The Times, he worked as an investigative projects reporter for The Seattle Times since 1989. Before working here, he worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Associated Press. At the Seattle PI, Wilson wrote that paper's story about Gary Little. Wilson is also a webmaster of Reporter's Desktop.[4]

Family

Wilson's father and brother published a weekly newspaper in Washington.[4] He has two children with Barbara Wilson, a high school teacher.

Works
  • Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret. HarperCollins. 2001. ISBN 978-0-06-019369-0.

Awards and honors
  • 1998; 2002 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
  • 2001; 2003 George Polk Award for medical and local reporting
  • 2002 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers[9]
  • May 2012 Sidney Award
  • 2003; 2002; 1998 three time Pulitzer finalist
  • Public-service awards from the Associated Press Managing Editors and the Newspaper Guild
  • 2002; Book-of-the-year honors from IRE for his book Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret[4]
  • USACBL champion
gollark: The UK has the exciting new "online safety bill" probably coming soon.
gollark: How wonderful.
gollark: Although it's more "complete inability to listen to anyone competent" than "lack of maths knowledge".
gollark: Politicians who don't know maths can just ignore it and demand changes somewhere, see.
gollark: Remember, even if you only studied philosophy or politics, maths can't hurt you if you just deny it constantly or ban it, and technology people can do anything if you complain enough!

References
  1. Wilson, Duff. "Duff Wilson Bio". The New York Times.
  2. "Local News | Times wins more honors for articles on 'Hutch' | Seattle Times Newspaper". community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  3. "Duff Wilson". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Archived from the original on September 11, 2005.
  4. "Duff Wilson". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  5. http://www.ire.org/cgi-bin/ask.cgi?t=%25alpha%25&s=RPD&q=duff+wilson+board%5B%5D
  6. "Duff Wilson | School of Journalism". journalism.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  7. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2006/08/witness_for_the_prosecution.html
  8. Wiedeman, Reeves. "The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right". Daily Intelligencer. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  9. "Journal reporters win Loeb for Enron Coverage". The Wall Street Journal. June 26, 2002. p. B6.


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