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Investigative Journalist Walt Bogdanich

Walt Bogdanich in glasses, dark gray suit jacket, white open-necked Oxford shirt

Back when I was in high school . . . I had that part of me that always looked at issues and was troubled by unfairness, by powerful people who take advantage of less powerful people. And I’ve always wanted to do something about it.

Walt Bogdanich is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been an investigative producer for 60 Minutes and ABC News.

In 2008, Bogdanich shared the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for “A Toxic Pipeline,” articles that tracked how poisonous pharmaceutical ingredients from China have flowed into the global market.

He won Pulitzer Prizes in 2005 for National Reporting for his series that examined the safety record of the U.S. railroad industry, and in 1988 for his articles in The Wall Street Journal on substandard medical laboratories.

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