Columbia University announced Monday that it will bestow an honorary doctorate on former Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger.
In its release, Columbia stated:
After 46 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, Steiger became, in 2008, the founder, editor-in-chief, and president of ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces journalism in the public interest. During his 16 years as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, members of its newsroom staff won 16 Pulitzer Prizes. During a period of marked decline in reporting resources in much of the American news media, ProPublica focuses on important stories of accountability journalism. Its reporters won the first Pulitzer Prize for a Web-based news organization in 2010, and the first for work published only online in 2011.
Here is a Q&A that we did with Steiger back in 2009 about his career in business journalism.
