By: Joe Strupp Joyce Dehli, vice president for news at Lee Enterprises, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board. Dehli is the first of three new Pulitzer members to be selected this year to replace outgoing members Mike Pride, Joann Byrd, and Donald Graham.
Dehli, who was appointed vice president for news in 2006, leads strategic efforts to strengthen the company?s print and online journalism, a Pulitzer announcement stated. "She also oversees journalism training, which includes the curriculum of Lee Online University, a companywide program she helped create. From late 2004 to 2006, she served as Lee?s editorial training manager and then director of editorial development. She conducted extensive training in enterprise journalism, newsroom leadership and ethical decision-making."
"As managing editor of the Wisconsin State Journal from 2003 to 2004 and assistant managing editor from 2001 to 2003, she helped to lead the newspaper?s emphasis on investigative journalism, which included reports on statehouse corruption, a prosecutor?s justice-for-sale scheme, the unraveling of a poor neighborhood within an affluent city, and racial disparities in local schools."
Lee Enterprises publishes 54 daily newspapers. They include the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, and other mid-size and small newspapers.
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