Robert W. Mong, Jr.

Robert W. Mong, Jr.
President and Editor, The Dallas Morning News

Bob Mong became president of The Dallas Morning News on October 1, 1998, and added the title editor in June 2001. He joined Belo as assistant city editor of The Dallas Morning News in 1979. During his time at The News, he also served as business editor, projects editor, assistant managing editor, deputy managing editor-news and managing editor. He also served as publisher of the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer in Kentucky and was executive vice-president of Belo’s publishing division.

He was instrumental in building and shaping news coverage at The Morning News during a time of extraordinary change and improvement at the paper. The News won six Pulitzer Prizes in the last 12 years Mr. Mong was at The News, including four Pulitzers during his tenure as managing editor. The paper also won numerous other national awards and dominated statewide journalism competition in Texas. He has been a proponent of more sophisticated newspaper reporting and was a prime mover in helping The News build its large staff of specialty reporters in religion, science, public policy, business and education.

Active in the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he has served as chairman of the Minorities Committee and the Management and Human Resources Committee. Mr. Mong served as a Pulitzer Prize juror in 1995 and 1996 and was chairman of the Pulitzer Photography categories in 1995.

He also is on the executive committee of the American Press Institute, president of the Religion Newswriters Foundation, chairman of the board of visitors of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and on the boards of the UT-Southwestern Medical School Foundation and Texas Daily Newspaper Association.

He is a graduate of Haverford College in Pennsylvania and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program.