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WASHINGTON, July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club has named Wall Street Journal editor at large Paul Steiger as the recipient of its 2007 Fourth Estate Award.

The award, which is the NPC's top honor, goes annually to an individual who has achieved distinction for a lifetime of contributions to American journalism. Steiger is the thirty-fifth honoree to join a list that includes Walter Cronkite, David Broder, Helen Thomas, Tom Brokaw, William Raspberry and Marvin Kalb.

The award will be presented at a black-tie dinner Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the club.

"Paul Steiger personifies the spirit of the Fourth Estate Award, in that he has vastly improved journalism through a lifetime of achievement," said National Press Club President Jerry Zremski, Washington bureau chief for The Buffalo News. "Under his direction, the Wall Street Journal won an astounding 16 Pulitzer Prizes. And as chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Paul Steiger has been a strong leader in the worldwide fight for press freedom. In short, Paul is one of the most admired journalists in America, and he richly deserves the National Press Club's highest honor."

Steiger was honored with the "Decade of Excellence" award from the London- based World Leadership Forum in 2005. In that same year, the University of Missouri School of Journalism awarded him a Missouri Honor Medal for distinguished service in journalism. In 2002, Steiger received the first ever American Society of Newspaper Editors' Leadership Award and in that same year he was given the Columbia University School of Journalism's highest honor for "a singular journalistic performance in the public interest."

Among the other accolades Steiger has received during the course of his notable career was the 2001 Editor of the Year Award from the National Press Foundation.

Steiger was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in economics.

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