Dana Canedy

Dana Canedy is a distinguished journalist and editor, and an experienced senior executive in the country’s leading news and publishing organizations. She is also a public speaker and the author of the international best-selling memoir, "A Journal for Jordan," and was a producer of the movie of the same name, which was directed by Denzel Washington and starred Michael B. Jordan and Chante Adams.
She is currently managing editor of the Guardian news organization in the US, overseeing operations as it aggressively expands its journalism reach in the United States.

Prior to joining the Guardian, Canedy spent more than 20 years at the New York Times, where she held a number of roles, including business and finance reporter, national correspondent, assignment editor for national news, bureau chief and senior editor. She was a reporter and a lead editor on the team that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for How Race Is Lived in America.
Canedy later served as administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, the first woman and person of color to oversee the storied organization in its more than 100-year history. She later became senior vice-president and publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint, also a first for a person of color.