Jacqui Banaszynski holds the Knight Chair in Editing at the Missouri School of Journalism and is an Editing Fellow at the Poynter Institute. She worked in newsrooms for more than 30 years, most recently as projects editor at The Seattle Times.
While at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Banaszynski won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and the SPJ Distinguished Service Award for “AIDS in the Heartland,” an intimate account of the death of a gay farm couple. She was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer in international reporting for coverage of the Ethiopian famine, and won the national AP Sports Editors award with deadline coverage at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Her edited work has won the ASNE Best Feature Writing Award and the Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Writing. She edited an investigative series on the failure of public defense that was a finalist for the Goldsmith Award and for the Selden Ring Award, and a series on the global economy that was a finalist for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award.
Banaszynski leads workshops for journalists around the world and has served four times as a Pulitzer juror.
