Sig Gissler

Sig Gissler

Sig Gissler, former editor of The Milwaukee Journal, joined the faculty in 1994 as an associate professor, teaching RW1 and creating a new course on covering racial issues in urban America. He became administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes in 2002.

A native of Chicago and a graduate of Lake Forest College, he worked on the Libertyville ( Ill.) Independent-Register and was executive editor of the Waukegan ( Ill.) News-Sun before joining The Milwaukee Journal in 1967, working as a reporter, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editor. Gissler was a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center.

At Columbia, he founded the “Let’s Do It Better” workshops on journalism, race and ethnicity. In 1997, he served as the journalism school’s interim associate dean. In 1998, he was named “teacher of the year” by journalism students and in 2002 he received the university’s Presidential Teaching Award.

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