Paul A. Gigot is an American Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

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-winning conservative

American conservatism

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 political commentator and the editor

Editing

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 of the editorial pages for The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

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. He is also the moderator of the public affairs television series

Television program

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  Journal Editorial Report

Journal Editorial Report

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, a program reflecting the Journal's editorial views which airs on Fox News Channel

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Early life

Paul Gigot was born in San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio, Texas

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 in 1955, and he and his family moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay, Wisconsin

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 not long afterwards. He graduated from Abbot Pennings High School in DePere, Wisconsin in 1973.

He graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College

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 in 1977, where he wrote for and later edited The Dartmouth

The Dartmouth

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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

Asia

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 correspondent in Hong Kong

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. While in Hong Kong in 1984, Gigot was placed in charge of The Wall Street Journal Asia

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During the 1990s, he was a regular guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

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, appearing in the program's weekly political analysis segment, opposite Mark Shields

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, the regular liberal pundit

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External links

• Biography of Gigot on Opinion Journal
  • January 2005 editorial exhorting Republican policy leadership
• Gigot at WisconsinHistory.org