Ann Marie Lipinski

Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University

Ann Marie Lipinski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, home to an international fellowship program and an innovative group of publications about journalism, including Nieman Lab, Nieman Reports and Nieman Storyboard.

Before coming to Harvard, Ann Marie served as senior lecturer and vice president for civic engagement at the University of Chicago. Prior to that, she was the editor-in-chief and senior vice president of the Chicago Tribune, a post she held for nearly eight years following assignments as managing editor, metropolitan editor and investigations editor. As a reporter at the Tribune, Ann Marie was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for stories she wrote with two other reporters on government corruption in Chicago. While editor of the paper, she oversaw work that won Pulitzers in international reporting, feature writing, editorial writing, investigative reporting and explanatory journalism.

Ann Marie is a trustee of the Poynter Institute and a past co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize board. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a 1990 Nieman Fellow.