Walt Bogdanich is an American investigative

Investigative journalism

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 journalist.

Life

Bogdanich graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1975 with a degree in political science

Political science

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. He received a master's in journalism from Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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 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

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

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. Before joining The Times in 2001, he was an investigative producer for 60 Minutes

60 Minutes

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on CBS and for ABC News

ABC News

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. Previously, he worked as an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

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.
In 2004, he won the George Polk Award, for National Reporting.
In 2005, now a reporter at The New York Times, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

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 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

Jake Hooker (journalist)

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 won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in print journalism...

 for reporting on toxic substances that were discovered in products imported from China. Bogdanich led the team that won the 2008 Gerald Loeb Award

Gerald Loeb Award

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for the story "Toxic Pipeline", and he won a lifetime achievement Loeb Award in 2010.