Paul  Ingrassia

Paul  Ingrassia

Paul J. Ingrassia retired from The Wall Street Journal at the end of 2007, after 31 years. In 1993, as the Journal's Detroit bureau chief, Mr. Ingrassia won a Pulitzer Prize -- along with his deputy, Joseph B. White --for coverage of the prior year's crisis at General Motors. The two also won a Loeb Award. Messrs. Ingrassia and White co-authored Comeback: the Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry, published by Simon and Schuster in 1994.

From 1996 to 2006, Mr. Ingrassia served as president of Dow Jones Newswires, with news and business responsibility for a $225 million of annual revenue and 700 journalists worldwide. At his retirement, Mr. Ingrassia was vice president of news strategy for Dow Jones. Mr. Ingrassia currently is writing Engines of Change, about the cars that helped define American culture, which will be published by HarperCollins. He began his journalism career in 1973 in Decatur, Ill. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.