Steiger, Paul

Paul Steiger is the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and a vice president of Dow Jones & Company. The editors of the Wall Street Journal Online, the Wall Street Journal Europe and the Wall Street Journal Asia also report to him.

Mr. Steiger joined the Journal in 1966 as a reporter in the San Francisco bureau. In 1968, he moved to the Los Angeles Times as a staff writer and in 1971 transferred to that paper's Washington, DC, bureau as an economics correspondent. He returned to Los Angeles in 1978 to serve as the Times' business editor.

In 1983, Mr. Steiger rejoined the Journal as an assistant managing editor in New York and became a deputy managing editor in April 1985. He was appointed managing editor in June 1991 and became a vice president of the Journal in May 1992. Under his leadership, Wall Street Journal reporters and editors have won 14 Pulitzer Prizes in 14 years.

In 2002, Mr. Steiger was selected the first recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Leadership Award, honoring his more than a decade of leadership at the Wall Street Journal. The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA honored him with the 2002 Gerald Loeb Award for lifetime achievement. Also in 2002, he was awarded the Columbia Journalism Award, given to honor a "singular journalistic performance in the public interest," and the highest honor awarded by the Columbia University School of Journalism. He was named a 2001-2002 Poynter Fellow by Yale University. The National Press Foundation awarded him the 2001 George Beveridge Editor of the Year Award for qualities that produce excellence in media. In 2006, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded him an Emmy for Lifetime Achievement in Business & Financial Reporting. Mr. Steiger personally won three Gerald Loeb Awards and two John Hancock awards for his economics and business coverage. He is co-author of the book, The '70s Crash and How to Survive It, published in 1970.

Born in New York City, Mr. Steiger graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in economics. He joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 1998.