Paul Gigot

Paul A. Gigot (born 1955) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative political commentator and the editor of the editorial pages for The Wall Street Journal. He is also the moderator of the public affairs television series Journal Editorial Report, a program reflecting the Journal's editorial views which airs on Fox News Channel.

Early life

Paul Gigot was born in San Antonio, Texas, and he and his family moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin not long afterwards. He graduated from Abbot Pennings High School in DePere, Wisconsin in 1973.

He graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1977, where he wrote for and later edited The Dartmouth.

Career

Prior to becoming a Journal editor, Gigot spent 14 years writing the column "Potomac Watch". His career at the Journal began in 1980, when he became a reporter covering Chicago, Illinois. Two years later he became the paper's Asia correspondent in Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong in 1984, Gigot was placed in charge of The Wall Street Journal Asia.

During the 1990s, he was a regular guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, appearing in the program's weekly political analysis segment, opposite Mark Shields, the regular liberal pundit.

External links

• Biography of Gigot on Opinion Journal
  • January 2005 editorial exhorting Republican policy leadership
• Paul Gigot at the Internet Movie Database
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Works by or about Paul Gigot in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Gigot at WisconsinHistory.org