Phil Bronstein is director of content development and editor-at-large for Hearst Newspapers. In this role, Bronstein works directly with Hearst Newspapers publishers, editors, website executive producers and Group executives to develop new content partnerships, locally and nationally, and to continue to redefine the way Hearst reports and presents news and information. Bronstein also writes a weekly San Francisco Chronicle column, blogs for SFGate.com and helps to lead various cross-newspaper investigative reporting projects.
Formerly, he held the positions of editor-at-large, executive vice president and editor, and senior vice president and executive editor, for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Prior to that, Bronstein was executive editor of the San Francisco Examiner. He was named executive editor of the Examiner in 1991, having previously served as managing editor for news. Bronstein began as a reporter with the newspaper 20 years prior.
At the Examiner, Bronstein specialized in investigative projects and was a foreign correspondent for eight years. He has won awards for his coverage of the Philippines from the Overseas Press Club, Associated Press, the World Affairs Council and Media Alliance. Bronstein was a 1986 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his work in the Philippines and went on to cover conflicts in other parts of Southeast Asia, El Salvador, Peru and the Middle East. Previously, he was a reporter with KQED-TV in San Francisco.
Bronstein is on the board of the Center for Investigative Reporting and the advisory board of Litquake, one of the largest literary festivals in the country.
The San Francisco Chronicle is the largest newspaper in Northern California and the second largest on the West Coast. The Chronicle and SFGate.com reach 1.9 million Bay Area adults each week. Acquired by Hearst Corporation in 2000, the San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 by Charles and Michael de Young and has been awarded six Pulitzer Prizes for journalistic excellence.