About me
Gilbert Bailon has more than four decades of newsroom leadership experience and now serves as the Deputy Director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Most recently, he was executive editor at WBEZ public radio and Chicago Public Media, which also owns the Chicago Sun-Times daily newspaper. Bailon was executive editor at KERA public radio before moving to Chicago.
He was editorial page editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for four years before he became editor-in-chief in 2012. Under his leadership, the newsroom won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for editorial writing for its coverage of the unrest following the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
Bailon worked at The Dallas Morning News for more 21 years, starting as a reporter and later becoming executive editor and founding editor/publisher of the Spanish-language daily newspaper Al Dia founded in 2003.
Bailon won the 2014 Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year awarded by the National Press Foundation for leading coverage of the unrest in Ferguson and its aftermath. He is a member of the NAHJ Hall of Fame and a past NAHJ national president.
