Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson is deputy sports editor at The New York Times, responsible for enterprise reporting and investigations. He is the former editor of The Dallas Morning News, which was a Pulitzer finalist three times and won two national Edward R. Murrow Awards for feature writing under his leadership. At The Tampa Bay Times, he edited Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in feature writing and local reporting and several that were finalists for feature writing. Aside from The News and The Tampa Bay Times, Mike’s career includes writing and editing stops at The Miami Herald and FiveThirtyEight, where he was the founding managing editor. His first book, “Right on the Edge of Crazy” (1993), told the story of American ski racers competing in the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France. His second, “The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison” (1997), chronicled the career of Oracle’s founder.