Dehli, Joyce

Joyce Dehli, Vice President of Lee Enterprises, joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in May, 2008.

Lee Enterprises publishes 54 daily newspapers and their Web sites. 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.

Dehli, who was appointed vice president for news in 2006, leads strategic efforts to strengthen the company's print and online journalism. 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.

From 1996 to 2001, she served as night city editor, enterprise editor and city editor at the State Journal. She joined the newspaper in 1987 as a beat reporter and later moved into project reporting. She began her journalism career in Louisville, Kentucky, where she reported for The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times from 1981 to 1984.

Dehli, a 2002 Poynter Ethics Fellow, has been a guest teacher and roundtable panelist at The Poynter Institute, delivered a presentation for the National Institute on Computer-Assisted Reporting on mining databases for local stories, and taught journalists about analyzing databases. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Marquette University in Milwaukee and a master's degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In March of 2008, Dehli served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting.