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New York, NY (May 20, 2020) — Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, and Aminda Marqués González, president, publisher and executive editor of the Miami Herald, have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Stephen Engelberg
Engelberg became ProPublica's editor-in-chief on Jan. 1, 2013. He oversees its day-to-day editorial operations, long-term projects and Web strategy. During his time as managing editor, ProPublica became the first online news organization to win Pulitzer Prizes. Before joining ProPublica, he worked for The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, The Dallas Morning News, The New York Times and The Oregonian of Portland, Ore., where he was a managing editor. During his years at The Oregonian, the paper won the Pulitzer for Breaking News Reporting and was a finalist for its investigative work on methamphetamines and on charities intended to help the disabled. Engelberg is the co-author of "Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War." He shared an Emmy in 2001 for work on a documentary on biological warfare by the PBS program Nova.
A native of Lexington, Mass., Engelberg graduated from Princeton University in 1979 with a degree in history. He lives in Montclair, N.J., with his wife, Gabrielle Glaser, and three daughters.
Aminda Marqués González
Marqués González is president, publisher and executive editor of the Miami Herald Media Company and McClatchy’s Florida regional editor, which includes Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, Bradenton Herald, the Keys digital products and the Tallahassee bureau. Born in New York to Cuban immigrant parents, Marqués began her career as an intern at the Miami Herald and rose through the ranks to become the paper’s first Hispanic editor in 2010. She is only the second woman to hold the post. She is the first Hispanic chair of the Pulitzer board.
Her career has included assignments as a metro reporter, assistant city editor and deputy metro editor, directing the Miami Herald’s local, state and community news operations. She also was Miami bureau chief for People magazine, overseeing coverage for the southeast U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America. She returned to the Miami Herald in 2007, where she was a multimedia editor and Sunday/features editor before being named managing editor in May 2010 and executive editor in October 2010. During her tenure as executive editor, the Miami Herald has won two Pulitzer Prizes and has been a finalist five times. In 2017, the Herald was awarded two Pulitzers, for explanatory reporting and editorial cartooning.
Marqués is a 1986 graduate of the University of Florida, where she was honored as an Alumni of Distinction by the College of Journalism and Communications in 2012. She received the Presidential Impact award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 2016. She was awarded the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year award in 2019.
Both Engelberg and Marqués González joined the Pulitzer board in 2012.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and to establish the Pulitzer Prizes, which were first awarded in 1917.
The 19-member Pulitzer Board is composed mainly of leading journalists or news executives from media outlets across the U.S., as well as five academics or persons in the arts. The dean of Columbia Journalism School and the administrator of the Prizes are nonvoting members. The chair rotates annually to the most senior member or members. The board is self-perpetuating in the election of members. Voting members may serve three terms of three years each for a total of nine years.