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Paul Steiger

Paul Steiger is the editor-in-chief, president, and chief executive of ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism. Previously, he served as the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal for 16 years. He is the chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit that has fought for press freedom around the world since 1981.

14 October 2009

On Sunday, July 12, 2009, the Los Angeles Times published on its front page and on four full inside pages an article headed, “Problem nurses stay on job as patients suffer”. Of the many extraordinary things about this story, one stands out: it was written and principally reported by two reporters, Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, who do not work for the Times. They work at ProPublica, a New York–based nonprofit and nonpartisan team of investigative journalists founded in 2008 and funded by philanthropy, including major support from the Sandler Foundation.

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