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  1. A conversation about "The Wall Street Journal" with Paul Steiger
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Paul Steiger is the managing editor of “The Wall Street Journal” and a vice president of Dow Jones & Company. Steiger is the chairman for the 2006-07 year of the Pulitzer Prize Board. He is also the chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to promote press freedom by working for the rights of journalists world-wide. 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, he transferred to that paper’s Washington, D.C., bureau as an economics correspondent. He returned to Los Angeles in 1978 to serve as the Times’ business editor.

He was appointed managing editor in 1991 and became a vice president of the Journal in 1992. Under his leadership, “The Wall Street Journal’s reporters and editors have won 14 Pulitzer Prizes. In 2005, Steiger was honored with the “Decade of Excellence” award from the World Leadership Forum.

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