"Paul Steiger" was managing editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1991 until May 15, 2007.[http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117692395703074442-bWvVLaBxnJ6Euh8hscwTkSEYHCQ_20080417.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top 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 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 Daily News/Yale News and Review and a member of Manuscript Society. He worked for the Los Angeles Times from 1966 to 1983.

He is currently the Executive Chairman of ProPublica. He chairs the Committee to Protect Journalists and has won numerous journalism awards.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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