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
editWilson graduated from Western Washington University in 1976, and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1982.[3][4]
Career
editHe 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
editWilson's father and brother published a weekly newspaper in Washington.[4] He has two children with Barbara Wilson, a high school teacher.
Works
editAwards and honors
edit- 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]
- 2002 Heywood Broun Award[10]
- 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
References
edit- ^ Wilson, Duff. "Duff Wilson Bio". The New York Times.
- ^ "Local News | Times wins more honors for articles on 'Hutch'". community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ "Duff Wilson". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Archived from the original on September 11, 2005.
- ^ a b c d "Duff Wilson". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ http://www.ire.org/cgi-bin/ask.cgi?t=%25alpha%25&s=RPD&q=duff+wilson+board[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Duff Wilson | School of Journalism". journalism.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ Jr, Stuart Taylor (29 August 2006). "The New York Times is still victimizing innocent Dukies". Slate.
- ^ Wiedeman, Reeves. "The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right". Daily Intelligencer. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ "Journal reporters win Loeb for Enron Coverage". The Wall Street Journal. June 26, 2002. p. B6.
- ^ "Newspaper Guild Award Banquet Honors Crusading Journalists". Communications Workers of America. 2002-06-01. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
External links
edit- "New FDA Regulations Could Change Smokers' Habits", NPR, April 22, 2010
- Journalist's blog
- Journalist's twitter
- http://www.reporter.org/desktop/rd/duffbio.htm Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
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