Lipinski, Ann Marie

Ann Marie Lipinski was named senior vice president and editor at the Chicago Tribune in February 2001. Prior to that, she served as its vice president and executive editor.

Lipinski is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She first came to the Tribune as an intern in the summer of 1978 and rose through the ranks to senior editorial posts, including associate managing editor for metropolitan news in 1991, deputy managing editor in 1994 and managing editor in 1995.

As a Chicago Tribune reporter, she won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1988 for a series of articles on conflicts of interest in the Chicago City Council. The following year, she won a Nieman Fellowship for journalists, for which she spent a year at Harvard before returning to head the Tribune's investigative team. In 1993, Lipinski oversaw the paper's prize-winning "Killing Our Children," a yearlong, front-page series on child murders in the Chicago area.

Lipinski was a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in 2001 and 2002 and currently serves on the board of visitors of the Poynter Institute, the University of Michigan Journalism Fellows program and the Stanford University Journalism Fellows program.

Lipinski joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in May 2003.