Officers

Paul Steiger - Editor-in-Chief

Paul E. Steiger is the editor-in-chief, CEO and president of ProPublica.

Steiger served as the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1991 to 2007. During his tenure, members of the Journal’s newsroom staff were awarded 16 Pulitzer Prizes. In addition, ProPublica reporters received Pulitzer Prizes in May 2010 and 2011.

He is a member of the steering committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, based in Arlington, Va., which provides free legal assistance to journalists. He is a trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, based in Miami, that funds efforts to enhance journalism and the functioning of American communities. From 1999 to 2007, he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, serving as its chairman in his final year. For six years, from June 2005 to June 2011, Steiger was the chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based nonprofit that advocates for press freedom around the globe.

Awards include the Columbia Journalism Award, the University of Missouri Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism, the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center, the Gerald Loeb Award for lifetime achievement from the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, the Dean’s Medal for Distinguished Leadership from Brandeis University, the Fourth Estate Award from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the National Press Foundation’s George Beveridge Editor of the Year Award, the Decade of Excellence Award from the World Leadership Forum in London, and the American Society of News Editors Leadership Award.

Steiger worked for 15 years as a reporter, the Washington economics correspondent, and the business editor for the Los Angeles Times, and for 26 years as a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University in 1964.

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Stephen Engelberg - Managing Editor

Stephen Engelberg came to ProPublica from The Oregonian in Portland, where he had been a managing editor since 2002. Before joining The Oregonian, Mr. Engelberg worked for The New York Times for 18 years, including stints in Washington, D.C., and Warsaw, Poland, as well as in New York. He is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board and of the Board of Directors of the American Society of News Editors.

After beginning his career at the Times, he worked as a reporter for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and for The Dallas Morning News before returning to the Times to write news and investigative articles on national security matters. After a stint as the Times bureau chief in Warsaw immediately following the collapse of Communism, he resumed his work as an investigative reporter in 1993. Mr. Engelberg shared in two George Polk Awards for reporting: the first, in 1989, for articles on nuclear proliferation; the second, in 1994, for articles on U.S. immigration. A group of articles he co-authored in 1995 on an airplane crash was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.

Mr. Engelberg’s work since 1996 has focused largely on the editing of investigative projects. He started the Times's investigative unit in 2000. Projects he supervised at the Times on Mexican corruption (published in 1997) and the rise of Al Qaeda (published beginning in January 2001) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. During his years at The Oregonian, the paper won the Pulitzer for breaking news and was a finalist for its investigative work on methamphetamines and charities intended to help the disabled. He is the co-author of "Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War" (2001).

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Richard Tofel - General Manager

Richard Tofel is general manager of ProPublica, with responsibility for all of its non-journalism operations, including communications, legal, development, finance and budgeting, and human resources. He was formerly the assistant publisher of The Wall Street Journal and, earlier, an assistant managing editor of the paper, vice president, corporate communications for Dow Jones & Company, and an assistant general counsel of Dow Jones. More recently, he served as vice president, general counsel and secretary of the Rockefeller Foundation, and earlier as president and chief operating officer of the International Freedom Center, a museum and cultural center that was planned for the World Trade Center site. He is the author of "Why American Newspapers Gave Away the Future" (Now and Then Reader, 2012), "Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861: Abraham Lincoln and the Hazards of Transition" (St. Martin's, 2011), "Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism" (St. Martin's, 2009); "Sounding the Trumpet: The Making of John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address" (Ivan R. Dee, 2005), "Vanishing Point: The Disappearance of Judge Crater, and the New York He Left Behind" (Ivan R. Dee, 2004) and "A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939" (Ivan R. Dee, 2002).

Debby Goldberg - Vice President/Development

Debby Goldberg is the vice president/development of ProPublica.

She has nearly 20 years of senior management, fundraising and marketing experience in the not-for-profit and political sectors, focusing on institutional fundraising, organizational development and strategic communications. Most recently, Ms. Goldberg was senior vice president for development at the Center for American Progress. Prior to this role, she worked as a not-for-profit development consultant to Human Rights Watch, Brooklyn College, and the National Partnership for Women and Families in support of their historic fundraising efforts. Previously, she also served as chief of staff to New School University President Bob Kerrey.

In addition to her work in the not-for-profit sector, Ms. Goldberg worked for nine years on various political campaigns and in government. She has served as special assistant to the Secretary of Labor and as a public communications official for the U.S. Department of State during the Clinton Administration.

Debby received her MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and her undergraduate degree from Harvard College.

News Staff

Senior Editors: Tom Detzel, Robin Fields, Mark Schoofs and Eric Umansky
Senior Reporters: Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Gerth, Dafna Linzer, T. Christian Miller (on leave), Charles Ornstein, Sebastian Rotella and Tracy Weber
Reporters: Marshall Allen, Kim Barker, Lois Beckett, Jake Bernstein, Justin Elliott, Michael Grabell, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Paul Kiel, Abrahm Lustgarten, Olga Pierce, Joaquin Sapien, A.C. Thompson and Marian Wang
Contributors: Sheri Fink and Chisun Lee
Director of Computer-Assisted Reporting: Jennifer LaFleur
Director of Research: Liz Day
Editor of News Applications: Scott Klein
Social Media Editor: Daniel Victor
Deputy Editor of News Applications: Krista Kjellman Schmidt
Social Media Producer: Blair Hickman
News Applications Developers: Jeff Larson, Dan Nguyen and Al Shaw
Computer-Assisted Reporting Specialist: Joe Kokenge
Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor: Nicole Cabrera
News Applications Fellow: Lena Groeger
Interns: Kirsten Berg and Cora Currier

Reporters' Beats

Administrative Staff

Director of Finance & Operations: Barbara Zinkant
Director of Communications: Mike Webb
Communications Manager: Minhee Cho
Director of Information Technology: Nicholas Lanese
Executive Administrator Sarah Ritter Chung