Steve Wilson (reporter)
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Steve Wilson is Chief Investigative Reporter for WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. During the early 1990s, he was a former reporter for the tabloid show Inside Edition.
Wilson came to national prominence in 1998, when, together with his wife and reporting partner Jane Akre, he filed suit against Tampa, Florida Fox television station WTVT, his former employer.
After spending some time away from the broadcast media, Wilson joined WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan.
In 2005, Wilson was at the center of a controversy involving Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. The City of Detroit later prepared and broadcast a video attacking Wilson, on its City-controlled cable access channel, entitled Steve Wilson, the Inventive Reporter.
This video was the subject of a newspaper editorial in the influential Detroit News, which the paper termed an "ill-advised video attack".
His investigations of Detroit's embattled mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as well as Ford Motor Company's Mark Fields have garnered national attention.
[edit] See also
- investigative journalism
- WXYZ-TV, Detroit
- WTVT-TV, Tampa
[edit] External links
- Oralandar Brand-Williams. "Mayor's aide gets hostile: Kilpatrick's security team member shoves a TV reporter who asks about a city car lease.", Detroit News, January 19, 2005. Retrieved September, 2005. With accompanying photograph.
- Steve Wilson and Jane Akre. "Wilson and Akre's Prepared Statement", April 2, 1998. Retrieved September, 2005.
- Detroit News. "Warren, Detroit Wrong to Use Cable Show to Target Reporter", Detroit News, Editorial, May 31, 2005. Retrieved September, 2005.
- John Sugg. "The Strange Case of Steve Wilson", Reason Magazine, May 2006
