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Paul E. Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and a vice president at Dow Jones & Co., has been appointed the new chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board . Steiger, who has been a board member since 1998, replaces Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who has served on the board since 1997, fulfilling the maximum nine-year term.
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The 2006 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 17, and the awards ceremony honoring this year's winners will take place on May 22, at Columbia University, which administers the annual awards.
Steiger oversees The Wall Street Journal 's U.S. and international print and online editions. Under his leadership, Journal reporters and editors have earned 14 Pulitzers.
Steiger joined the Journal in 1966 as a reporter in the San Francisco bureau. In 1968, he moved to the Los Angeles Times as a staff writer and in 1971, transferred to the paper's Washington, D.C. bureau as an economic correspondent. He later went back to the West Coast to become the Times' business editor.
Originally from New York City, Steiger returned in 1983 to his hometown and rejoined the Journal as an assistant managing editor. He was named deputy managing editor in 1985 and in June of 1991, was appointed managing editor. A year later, Steiger became a vice president at Dow Jones & Co., which publishes the Journal , electronic news services, Web sites and community newspapers.
In 2005, Steiger was elected chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based nonprofit group that promotes press freedom by working for the rights of journalists worldwide. Also in 2005, he was honored with the Decade of Excellence Award from U.K.-based World Leadership Forum.
Steiger has received numerous awards and honors throughout his career, including the Columbia Journalism Award, the highest honor awarded by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; UCLA's 2002 Gerald Loeb Award for lifetime achievement; and The National Press Foundation George Beveridge Editor of the Year Award, among others. Steiger, co-author of The '70s Crash and How to Survive It , was named a Poynter Fellow by Yale University in 2001-2002, and he was selected in 2002 as the first recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors Leadership Award, honoring his leadership at The Wall Street Journal . He is a graduate of Yale University with a bachelor's degree in economics. |
