Glenn Kramon is an award winning American

United States

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 journalist. He is an assistant managing editor

Managing editor

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 of The New York Times

The New York Times

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, a post he has held since 2006.

Career

Glenn Kramon started his journalism career in 1975 at The Kansas City Star

The Kansas City Star

The Kansas City Star is a McClatchy newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes...

 after graduating from Stanford University

Stanford University

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. In 1977, he joined The San Francisco Examiner

The San Francisco Examiner

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 where he held various positions including business editor, Sunday news editor and reporter. In 1987, Kramon joined The Times as a copy editor and health care reporter. Soon after, he held the positions of assignment editor, technology editor, enterprise editor, Sunday business editor and deputy business editor. He went on to become the paper's Business editor, overseeing the paper's financial news staff, from 1997 to 2003. In 2003, UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award

Gerald Loeb Award

The Gerald Loeb Award, also referred to as the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy. The award was established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of...

 honored Kramon by bestowing upon him the Lawrence Minard Editor Award, recognizing an outstanding editor who does not receive a byline. In his current role as an assistant managing editor, he oversees long-form projects "with a mandate to stimulate and manage original New York Times reporting ventures across the newsroom."

Awards

In addition to receiving the Minard Editor Award, Kramon has supervised and edited reporters who have won eight Pulitzer Prizes, and have been finalists for the Pulitzer 22 times. They have also earned a number of other honors including nine George Polk

George Polk

George Polk was an American journalist for CBS who disappeared in Greece and was found dead a few days later on Sunday May 16, 1948, shot at point-blank range in the back of the head, and with hands and feet tied. Polk was covering the civil war in Greece between the right wing government and...

 awards for courageous journalism, seven Gerald Loeb Awards for distinguished business journalism, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is an award for journalists administered by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The program was launched in 1991, with the goal of exposing examples of poor government, and encouraging good...

 and the Grantham Prize for environmental reporting.