Duff Wilson Explained

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.

Family

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

Works

• Book: Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret. HarperCollins. 2001. 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]
• 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
• USACBL champion

External links

• "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

Notes and References

1. News: Duff Wilson Bio. The New York Times . Duff . Wilson.
2. Web site: Local News Times wins more honors for articles on 'Hutch' Seattle Times Newspaper. community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. 2018-04-16.
3. Web site: Duff Wilson. UCLA Anderson School of Management. https://web.archive.org/web/20050911113818/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x5565.xml. September 11, 2005.
4. Web site: Duff Wilson. The New York Times. 10 April 2013.
5. http://www.ire.org/cgi-bin/ask.cgi?t=%25alpha%25&s=RPD&q=duff+wilson+board{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
6. Web site: Duff Wilson School of Journalism. journalism.columbia.edu. en. 2018-04-16.
7. The New York Times is still victimizing innocent Dukies. Slate . 29 August 2006 . Jr . Stuart Taylor .
8. News: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right. Wiedeman. Reeves. Daily Intelligencer. 2018-04-16. en.
9. News: Journal reporters win Loeb for Enron Coverage . June 26, 2002 . . B6.
10. Web site: 2002-06-01. Newspaper Guild Award Banquet Honors Crusading Journalists. 2020-09-17. Communications Workers of America. en.