Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter to visit

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Bogdanich, an investigative reporter and editor for The New York Times, will visit the University of Wisconsin–Madison as this fall’s Public Affairs Writer in Residence.

Bogdanich, a UW–Madison political science graduate, will visit campus during the week of Nov. 5, speaking to classes and meeting with students, faculty and local journalists.

Bogdanich won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his series “Death on the Tracks,” which documented how the nation’s politically connected railroads failed to take responsibility for fatal accidents and disclosed the unusually close ties between the railroad industry and its regulators.

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 in New York and Washington. He also worked for The Cleveland Press and The Plain Dealer.

In 1988, Bogdanich won the Pulitzer Prize for his articles in The Wall Street Journal on substandard medical laboratories. He has also won three George Polk Awards and an Overseas Press Club Award.

Although many of his presentations during the week will be in the classroom, Bogdanich will speak at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 8, in the lounge at the Chadbourne Residential College. The session is free and open to the public.

The Public Affairs Writer in Residence Program is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the La Follette School of Public Affairs and University Communications, with support from the UW Foundation.

For more information about the program, contact Dennis Chaptman at (608) 262-9406 or dchaptman@wisc.edu.