Steve Coll Named Dean of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll has been named dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He will succeed Nicholas Lemann, who has announced he was stepping down as dean last October. Lemann had been the school’s dean since 2003.

Coll was most recently the president of The New American Foundation and worked at WaPo from 1985 to 2004. He is also the author of seven books, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.