Paul Ingrassia

Paul J. Ingrassia (born Aug. 18, 1950) is editor at The Revs Institute, an automotive history and research center in Naples, FL. Previously managing editor of Reuters, from 2011 until 2016, he is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author or co-author of three books and a winner of the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for financial journalism

Career

Prior to his appointment as Managing Editor of Reuters in December 2012, Ingrassia was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Thomson Reuters, where he directed content creation across regions and specialty beats, in text and multimedia. He was appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief in April 2011 and later Managing Editor.[1]

In December 2007, Ingrassia completed a 31-year career at The Wall Street Journal and its parent company, Dow Jones, where he served as a reporter, editor and executive.[2] He began his news career at the former Lindsay-Schaub Newspaper group in Decatur, Illinois in 1973 and in 1977 he moved to The Wall Street Journal in Chicago.[3] Over the years he has taught as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and lectured at the business schools at Columbia and the University of Michigan. From 1998 to 2006 Ingrassia served as president of Dow Jones Newswires. In 2006-2007 he served as the company's vice president for news strategy.[3]

Ingrassia also is author or co-author of three books, and has written extensively about the auto industry for more than 30 years. His third and most recent book, published by Simon and Schuster in May 2012, is Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars. It was described by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times as “a highly informed but breezy narrative history of the vehicles that have shaped and reflected American culture.”[4]

His previous book (Random House, January 2010) was Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road from Glory to Disaster, which chronicled the bankruptcies and bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler. The book was the basis for Live Another Day, a 2016 documentary film about America’s auto bailout.

He spent 31 years at The Wall Street Journal and its parent company, Dow Jones, as a reporter, editor and executive before departing in 2007. As the Journal's Detroit bureau chief from 1985 to 1994, Ingrassia won a Pulitzer Prize -- along with his deputy, Joseph B. White -- in 1993 for coverage of the boardroom revolt at General Motors. They also received the Gerald Loeb Award that year in the deadline/beat writing category for the same coverage.

The following year, Ingrassia and White wrote Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry.[3]

Ingrassia’s broadcast appearances include Meet the Press, CNBC, National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, ABC’s 20/20, the PBS Newshour and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His work has also appeared in the Nihon Keizei Shimbun of Japan, Newsweek, Institutional Investor, and other publications. He is a member, since December 2016, of the Dow Jones Special Committee, which was established in 1997 to monitor the editorial integrity of The Wall Street Journal after the newspaper and its parent company were sold to News Corporation.

He drew media attention in 2013 when a former Reuters reporter accused him of suppressing the news organization’s coverage of climate change. However, The Daily Climate, an independent, foundation-funded news service, reported that "Reuters led the pack in climate change coverage" that year. The publication reported that Reuters' total of nearly 1,100 stories on climate issues in 2013 outstripped the Associated Press, the Guardian and The New York Times.[5]

Early life

Ingrassia is a multiple cancer survivor due to a rare genetic condition that makes him, and others with the condition, susceptible to malignancies. In accepting the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award in June 2016, he thanked the judges for their recognition and added that, due to his health history, “I often think that my biggest lifetime achievement is simply having a lifetime.”

Ingrassia, who was born in Laurel, MS, has journalism degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (bachelor's, 1972) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (master's). He and his wife, Susan, live in Naples, FL and have three adult sons.

References

  1. ↑ "Reuters Sends Paul Ingrassia to London". mediabistro.com.
  2. ↑ "Paul J. Ingrassia - Aspen Ideas Speaker". Aspen Ideas Festival.
  3. 1 2 3 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-01-14. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
  4. ↑ Kakutani, Michiko (May 12, 2012). ""History: 4 Wheels at a Time"". The New York Times.
  5. ↑ Fischer, Douglas (January 3, 2014). "Climate Central". www.climatecental.org.
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