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]
• 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