Duff Wilson
Duff Wilson is an American investigative reporter, formerly with The New York Times,[1] later with Reuters.
Education
Wilson graduated from Western Washington University in 1976, and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1982.[2][3]
Career
He worked for The Seattle Times, The New York Times and Reuters and was on the board of Investigative Reporters and Editors.[4] In 2010-13 he taught investigative reporting at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. 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. His initial coverage of the Duke Lacrosse Case garnered significant criticism as the case unraveled.[5] 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. Wilson is also a webmaster of Reporter's Desktop.[3]
Family
Wilson's father and brother published a weekly newspaper in Washington.[3] 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
- Gerald Loeb Award finalist [2] for business reporting
- 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[3]
- USACBL champion
References
- ↑ Wilson, Duff. "Duff Wilson Bio". The New York Times.
- 1 2 http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x5565.xml
- 1 2 3 4 "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
- ↑ http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2006/08/witness_for_the_prosecution.html
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