Paul Anger

Mr. Anger was named vice president and editor of the Detroit Free Press in August 2005. He supervises 260 journalists, including reporters, photographers, videographers, artists, editors and Web producers who craft news coverage, multimedia content and commentary for the Free Press and Freep.com. Under his leadership, the newspaper has enhanced its commitment to watchdog and investigative journalism, launched new products, become an industry leader in video production and video quality (winning more national Emmy awards than any newspaper-based Web site) and shown record growth on Freep.com.

Mr. Anger serves on the Detroit Media Partnership executive committee and is a board member of Detroit’s Metropolitan Affairs Coalition. He has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize judge and has been recognized four times with the Gannett Company’s President’s Ring, awarded annually to the top 10 editors across the company’s 80-plus newspapers.  

Before coming to Detroit, he was vice president and editor of the Des Moines Register. The Register was a Pulitzer finalist in investigative reporting during his tenure there.  

Mr. Anger has more than 40 years’ experience as a reporter, editor and publisher. He worked for the Miami Herald for 29 years, including stints as sports editor, Broward County editor and Broward publisher of the Herald. After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, he worked as a news editor for the Knight Ridder News Service in Washington, D.C., editing national and international coverage that included the war on terrorism and domestic security issues.

Mr. Anger grew up in Oshkosh, Wis. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and did news and sports reporting for The Paper for Central Wisconsin, the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern and the Fond du Lac Reporter before taking a job in the Miami Herald sports department in 1972. He attended API’s Sports Editors seminar in 1979.