Gyllenhaal, Anders

Anders Gyllenhaal was named executive editor of the The Miami Herald in 2007. From 2002 to 2007, Gyllenhaal (pronounced JILL-in-hall), was editor and senior vice president at the Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul. Previously, he was executive editor and senior vice president of the News & Observer in Raleigh, NC. He joined the News & Observer in 1991 and worked as metro editor and managing editor before becoming editor in 1997.

Born in Cleveland, OH, and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania, Gyllenhaal is a graduate of George Washington University. His first reporting job was at the Daily News Record in Harrisonburg, VA. Following that, he worked at The Press in Atlantic City, and then the Miami Herald, where he spent 12 years as a reporter, editor and head of the paper's Fort Lauderdale office.

He is married to Beverly Mills Gyllenhaal, who writes a weekly cooking column that appears in approximately 115 papers across the U.S. and Canada. He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Gyllenhaal joined the Pulitzer Board in 2001.