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 [ edit ]

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

Career [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

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

Works [ edit ]

• 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 [ 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 ]

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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