Walt Bogdanich (born October 10, 1950) is an United States investigative journalist and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.[ Walt Bogdanich biography, nytimes.com. Retrieved on April 7, 2008]
Biography
Bogdanich graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975 with a degree in political science. He received a master's in journalism from Ohio State University in 1976.
Bogdanich is assistant editor for The New York Times Investigations Desk and an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining The Times in 2001, he was an investigative producer for 60 Minutes on CBS and for ABC News. Previously, he worked as an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
Bogdanich co-authored the 2022 book about consulting giant McKinsey & Company with Michael Forsythe
Awards
In 1988, while a reporter for
The Wall Street Journal, Bogdanich won the Pulitzer Prize for Specialized Reporting for reporting about faulty testing in American medical laboratories. He shared with
Mike Wallace the 1999 Gerald Loeb Award for Network and Large-Market Television for an "Investigative Piece on the International Pharmaceutical Industry."
In 1979, 1994, 2002 and 2004, he won the George Polk Award. The 1994 award was for an ABC Day One investigation on
Big Tobacco's addition of nicotine to cigarettes.
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In 2005, now a reporter at
The New York Times, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and the 2005 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers
for a series of reports about corporate cover-ups of fatal accidents at railway crossings. In 2008, Bogdanich and
New York Times colleague Jake Hooker won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for reporting on toxic substances that were discovered in products imported from China.
Their reporting also won the 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers.
[N.Y. Times wins 3 Loeb Awards; Sloan gets his 7th, by Joseph Altman, Associated Press, Jun 30, 2008] Bogdanich received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010,
and shared another Gerald Loeb Award in 2017 for Images/Graphics/Interactives.
Personal life
Bogdanich is of Serbian descent.
He is married to
Stephanie Saul, a reporter for
The New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize winner for her work at
Newsday.
They have two sons.
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