Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (master's) Adam Pitluk is an American journalist, author and academic.
[1] He first met convicted vandal James Scott while working at the Columbia Missourian.
[2] After graduation, Pitluk worked as a reporter at People and Time magazines, as an editor for the Dallas Morning News and editor-in-chief of American Way [3][1] Pitluk is the author of the 2006 non-fiction book Standing Eight about the Mexican boxer Jesús Chávez.
The book documents and critiques the criminal conviction of James Scott, who was found guilty of damaging a levee in 1993, causing flooding.
[3][4][5] Pitluk contributed to the 2022 Vice News documentary Overlooked which examined the criminal conviction of Scott.