Paul Steiger

{{Short description|Chairman of ProPublica and former head of The Wall Street Journal}}

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Paul Steiger (born August 15, 1942){{cite web|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/details.asp?aID=10060& |title=So what do you do, Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica? |publisher=Mediabistro.com |date=February 13, 2008 |first=David S. |last=Hirschman |accessdate=January 1, 2015 }} is an American journalist who served as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1991 until May 15, 2007.[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117692395703074442 Journal Names Marcus Brauchli Managing Editor - WSJ.com] After that, he was the founding editor-in-chief, CEO and president of ProPublica from 2008 through 2012.

Steiger was born in the Bronx to a Catholic family and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, and Princeton, New Jersey. 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 News and Review and a member of Manuscript Society.Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/20/archives/paul-steiger-to-wed-jo-ann-e-mckenna.html "Paul Steiger to Wed Jo Ann E. McKenna"], The New York Times, February 20, 1964. Retrieved March 6, 2011. He worked for the Los Angeles Times from 1966 to 1983.

He is currently the executive chairman of ProPublica.{{Cite web|url=https://www.propublica.org/about/leadership#steiger|title=Leadership}} He chaired the Committee to Protect Journalists and has won numerous journalism awards.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=S|title = Council on Foreign Relations}}