Craig Wolff
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Craig Wolff is an American journalist and author and a former sports, feature, and news writer for The New York Times. He was a journalism professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a former senior enterprise editor and writer at The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.
While reporting for The New York Times, Wolff was part of the team that won the
Tawana Brawley
, which he and four of his colleagues turned into Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax.
He shared in a second Pulitzer Prize in 2017 as an editor for an investigative project examining an NYPD enforcement policy targeting people of color and minority-owned businesses; presented jointly to ProPublica and the New York Daily News.
In 2003, he co-wrote My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou with Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of
Amadou Diallo. It won a 2004 Christopher Award
for "work that raises the human spirit."
Books
- Tennis Superstars: The Men
- Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax
- My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou
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