February 2, 2007

Sheraton Hotel Burlington

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William Grueskin

William Grueskin, Managing Editor, Wall Street Journal Online will speak on
Foreign Affairs and the News Media in the Internet Age.

Bill Grueskin is managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com, Dow Jones & Company's online version of The Wall Street Journal and the largest paid subscription news site on the Web.

Mr. Grueskin joined the Journal in November 1995 as an editor on Page One and was named deputy Page One editor in January 1998, responsible for such coverage areas as the changing stock market, welfare reform, race and business, and the new economy. He was named managing editor of the Online Journal in June 2001 and oversaw the staff in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, across the street from the Journal's offices.

Mr. Grueskin began his journalism career in 1975 as a reporter and editor at the Daily American in Rome, Italy. From 1977 to 1979, he was a VISTA volunteer and the founding and managing editor of the weekly Dakota Sun on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota. After completing graduate school, he worked as a reporter at the Baltimore News American, and then as a reporter and assistant state editor at the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune from 1981 to 1985. He moved to the Miami Herald in 1985 as assistant editor, with responsibility for features and then the paper's coverage of crime and legal affairs. He was named the Herald's city editor for Broward County in 1989, and for Dade County, including Miami, in 1992.

While at the Miami Herald, Mr. Grueskin oversaw the paper's local coverage of Hurricane Andrew that won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for public service.

Mr. Grueskin has a bachelor's degree in classics from Stanford University and a master's degree in international economics and U.S. foreign policy from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He served as a juror in the Public Service category of the Pulitzer Prizes in 2004 and chaired the Features jury for the Pulitzers in 2005.