PITTSBURGH (AP) - David Shribman, the executive editor and vice president of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is stepping down.
The 64-year-old Shribman has led the Post-Gazette’s news operation since 2003.
He will become a scholar-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University next month, and in August will begin an appointment at McGill University in Montreal.
A successor has not been named.
Shribman said being part of the newspaper’s coverage of the October massacre of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue was a “memorable but wrenching end” to his career.
Following the killings, he crafted a front-page headline in Hebrew that quoted the first words of the Jewish mourner’s prayer. It received worldwide recognition.
His long career in journalism included winning a Pulitizer Prize for political coverage at the Boston Globe.
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