By: Joe Strupp Paul E. Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and a vice president at Dow Jones & Company, has been appointed the new chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board, the organization announced Monday.
Steiger, a board member since 1998, replaces Harvard University former professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who had served on the Pulitzer Board since 1997 and will leave. Members of the board serve a maximum of nine years.
The 2006 prizes were announced on April 17. The annual awards ceremony honoring those winners will take place on May 22 at Columbia University, which administers the prizes.
Steiger oversees The Wall Street Journal's U.S. and international print and online editions, the Pulitzer board said in a statement. Under his leadership, The Wall Street Journal's reporters and editors have earned 14 Pulitzer Prizes.
Steiger joined the Journal in 1966 as a reporter in San Francisco. In 1968, he moved to the Los Angeles Times as a staff writer, and in 1971 he transferred to that paper's Washington, D.C. bureau as an economics writer. He later returned to the West Coast to become the Times' business editor.
Steiger returned to New York 1983 and rejoined the Journal as an assistant managing editor. He became deputy managing editor in 1985, and in 1991 he was appointed managing editor. A year later, Steiger became a vice president at Dow Jones & Company, which publishes the Journal, electronic news services, Web sites and community newspapers.
In 2005, Steiger was elected chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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