Ellen Soeteber’s journalism leadership placed her on the mastheads of three major U.S. newspapers. At the Chicago Tribune, she moved up through the ranks from reporter and copy editor to associate managing editor and deputy editorial board editor. She was named managing editor of the Fort Lauderdale-based South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 1994, then the top editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2001. The many awards won by her staffs include the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and top honors from the National Headliner Awards, Society of Professional Journalists, World Press Photo and Picture of the Year. She was the visiting professor in journalism ethics and diversity at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications in 2008. Soeteber has been recognized in the Hall of Achievement of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she is a graduate and member of its Board of Advisers. She serves on the Selection Committee of the Knight-Wallace Fellows at the University of Michigan, where she also is an alum.