Andrew Wolfson has won some of the highest honors in journalism, including two Pulitzer Prizes and two Pulitzer finalists. He was a member of a reporting team that won the Pulitzer for breaking news in 2020 for stories about a lame-duck governor who pardoned more than 500 offenders, including some accused of rape and murder. And with another reporting team he won the 1989 Pulitzer for general news reporting, for coverage that showed that 24 children died in a bus crash not because of the drunk driver who rammed the vehicle, but because Ford Motor Co., insisted on making the bus without a steel cage to protect its gas tank, to save $300. As a member of other reporting groups, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2021 for coverage of the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor and a finalist in 2004 for a project on how delay in the legal system punishes litigants.

Wolfson also has won the George Polk Award for National Reporting; an American Bar Association Silver Gavel award for legal writing; the Anthony Lewis Media Award; the Green Eyeshade award for business reporting; the Society of Business Editors and Writers award for business project reporting; an Associated Press Sports Editors award for investigative reporting; and an Eclipse Award for coverage of racetrack safety. He has specialized in coverage of courts and the law, and his work has helped free innocent men from prison. He joined The Courier-Journal after working as a staff member on the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations. He graduated from Collegiate School in New York, Colorado College and Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.