As an adjunct journalism professor at Columbia University, Walt Bogdanich is loved and revered by his journalism students who think he walks on water.
The two-time Pulitzer winner kind of does—at least journalistically.
And when he goes to journalism conferences, it’s not just his students, but professionals who listen.
After his latest major story, higher ed officials should be reading and following Bogdanich’s work in The New York Times and using it as a cautionary tale.
I blogged about his story on how law enforcement and university officials at Florida State badly bungled the Jameis Winston sexual assault case.
Indeed, “bungled” may be too good a term, as it implies some kind of action when there was “virtually no investigation” done by either law enforcement or Florida State, as Bogdanich reported.
When I caught up with Bogdanich, at a journalism convention in San Francisco, I asked him what had happened since his story.
