Paul Steiger

Paul Steiger (born August 15, 1942)^[1] is an American journalist who served as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1991 until May 15, 2007.^[2] After that, he was the founding editor-in-chief, CEO and president of ProPublica from 2008 through 2012.

Paul Steiger in 2022

Steiger was born in the Bronx to a Roman Catholic family and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, and Princeton, New Jersey.^[1] He graduated from the Hun School of Princeton and was a member of Trumbull College at Yale University, where he was an editor of the Yale Daily News and a member of Manuscript Society.^[3] He worked for the Los Angeles Times from 1966 to 1983.^[1]

He is currently the executive chairman of ProPublica.^[4] He chaired the Committee to Protect Journalists and has won numerous journalism awards.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[5]

Awards

• 1974 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for "Use by Some Banks of Loan Loopholes Worries Regulators"^[6][7]
• 1978 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for "The Dollar: Its History and Current Woes"^[6][8]
• 2002 Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award^[9][10]