Thomas E. Fiedler

Thomas E. Fiedler is Dean of Boston University’s College of Communication, which he joined in 2008 after a 36-year career as a journalist. During those years, he earned many of journalism’s highest honors for his work as an investigative reporter, political columnist, White House correspondent, war correspondent, editorial-page editor, and, ultimately, as the executive editor of The Miami Herald. His investigative report into an extremist cult’s political tactics was part of a Herald series that won a 1991 Pulitzer Prize. During his 2001–2007 tenure as executive editor, the newspaper was awarded two additional Pulitzer Prizes.