Paul Steiger

Paul was a reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal for 26 years and served as the paper’s managing editor from 1991 to 2007. He worked for 15 years at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter, the Washington economics correspondent and the business editor. From 2008 through 2012, Paul was the founding editor-in-chief and CEO of ProPublica. He remains actively involved as executive chairman. He was chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists from 2005 to 2011. From 1999 to 2007, he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, serving as its chairman in his final year. He currently is a trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and a board member and treasurer of the Global Editors Network, based in Paris.