Paul is Editor-in-Chief, President and CEO of ProPublica, the non-profit investigative newsroom based in New York. In 2008, ProPublica pioneered a new model for investigative journalism, producing stories for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, and many others, on topics including police corruption, the financial bailout, natural gas drilling, and private military contractors. In 2010, a ProPublica reporter received a Pulitzer Prize. Prior to ProPublica, he was the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1991 until May 2007. Under his leadership, The Wall Street Journal’s reporters and editors won 16 Pulitzer Prizes. He is also the chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists and a trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In 2008, he received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Paul is Editor-in-Chief, President and CEO of ProPublica, the non-profit investigative newsroom based in New York. In 2008, ProPublica pioneered a new model for investigative journalism, producing stories for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, and many others, on topics including police corruption, the financial bailout, natural gas drilling, and private military contractors. In 2010, a ProPublica reporter received a Pulitzer Prize. Prior to ProPublica, he was the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1991 until May 2007. Under his leadership, The Wall Street Journal’s reporters and editors won 16 Pulitzer Prizes. He is also the chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists and a trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In 2008, he received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.