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Paul Gigot - Wikipedia

Paul Anthony Gigot (/dʒiːˈɡoʊ/; born May 24, 1955) is an American Pulitzer Prize–winning[1] conservative political commentator and editor of the editorial pages for The Wall Street Journal. He is also the moderator of the public affairs television series Journal Editorial Report, a program reflecting the Journal's editorial views which airs on Fox News Channel.

Early life and education

Paul Gigot was born in San Antonio, Texas, and he and his family moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin, not long afterward. He is Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools for 12 years.[2][3] He graduated from Abbot Pennings High School in De Pere, Wisconsin in 1973.[4]

He graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1977,[2] where he was editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth.[5] He was a student of English professor and conservative columnist Jeffrey Hart.[6]

Career

Prior to becoming an editor at The Wall Street Journal, Gigot spent 14 years writing the column "Potomac Watch". His career at the Journal began in 1980, when he became a reporter covering Chicago, Illinois. Two years later he became the paper's Asia correspondent in Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong in 1984, Gigot was placed in charge of The Wall Street Journal Asia.[7][8]

From 1986 to 1987, Gigot served as a White House Fellow under President Ronald Reagan.[9]

During the 1990s, he was a regular guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, appearing in the program's weekly political analysis segment, opposite Mark Shields, the regular liberal pundit and replaced David Gergen on the show.[7]

In 2000, Gigot won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his weekly "Potomac Watch" column in The Wall Street Journal.[1][10] In a column cited by the Pulitzer jury and highlighted by The New York Times as an example of his insightful conservative commentary, he examined the Clinton impeachment, writing "[a] president paranoid about his legacy even before the perjury scandal will now begin a campaign to make impeachment seem illegitimate", and remarking "[only in Washington] could a man who lies under oath be equated with someone who tries to defend the value of that oath."[10][11]

He became the Wall Street Journal's vice president and editorial-page editor in 2001.[2][12]

On 23 May 2006, he received the Wisconsin Historical Society's Lucius W. Neiman Award for Distinction in Journalism and Communications. Gigot, along with four others were also honored as a 2006 Wisconsin History Maker at the first annual History Makers Gala.[13]

In December 2007, Gigot was elected to the Pulitzer Prize board.[14][15]

Paul Gigot has been described[by ^whom?] as leading opposition to the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, via the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal.[16]

In 2015, he was elected to succeed Danielle Allen as the chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board.[17][18]

In 2017, Gigot was alleged to have forced out junior colleague Mark Lasswell from The Wall Street Journal the previous summer, after Lasswell continued to publish op-eds critical of Donald Trump. Gigot refused to comment on the personnel change.[19]

Under Gigot's tenure as editorial page editor and vice president[when?], The Wall Street Journal's editorial page has been criticized by other media and its own reporters for what these critics perceive to be a pro-Trump stance.[20][21][22]

Gigot hosts the weekly cable show Journal Editorial Report on Fox News Channel.[8][23]

In 2022, Gigot received the Alexander Hamilton Award along with Cliff Asness, from the Manhattan Institute.[24][25]

On 12 October 2023, Gigot hosted Mark Dubowitz, the CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies on Potomac Watch. The topic of the interview was Israel, Hamas and Iran.[26]

Notes

  1. "2000 Pulitzer Prize Winners - COMMENTARY, Citation", The Pulitzer Prizes website, archived from the original on 2000-08-16, retrieved 2024-11-21, Awarded to Paul A. Gigot of The Wall Street Journal for his informative and insightful columns on politics and government.
  2. McDougall, Connie (Spring 2003). "Breakfast With Paul Gigot". Seattle Pacific University. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  3. Gigot, Paul A. (5 February 2011). "Packers part of growing up in Green Bay". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  4. "Paul Gigot at the Wisconsin Historical Society". Wisconsinhistory.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-13. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  5. Russo, Brad (4 April 2000). "Gigot '77 wins Pulitzer Prize for commentary". The Dartmouth, Inc. Retrieved 14 December 2020. Paul Gigot, Class of 1977 and former editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary writing yesterday.
  6. Smith, Emily Esfahani (January 2018). "No Ordinary Joe". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. 112 (3): 48. Retrieved 14 December 2020. As Joe [Rago] was getting ready to graduate, Hart sent Joe's cover letter and clips to his former student, Gigot, editor of the Journal's editorial pages.
  7. Greenberg, David (2001-08-11). "Paul A. Gigot". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  8. "Paul Gigot". Fox News. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  9. "Paul Gigot Receives Wisconsin History Maker Award". Wisconsin Historical Society. 2006-05-23. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  10. "The 2000 Pulitzer Prizes", The New York Times website, 2000-04-10, archived from the original on 2024-11-21, retrieved 2024-11-21, In one column, Mr. Gigot concluded: "Only here could a man who lies under oath be equated with someone who tries to defend the value of that oath. The point is never, 'What's right?' but rather, 'Who won?' "
  11. Gigot, Paul A. (1999-02-12), "Hyde on His Mistakes -- and Ours", The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY, U.S.A., p. A16, ISSN 0099-9660, archived from the original on 2001-07-17, retrieved 2024-11-21 – via The Pulitzer Prizes website, This matters, because Mr. Clinton isn't about to let his impeachers alone. A president paranoid about his legacy even before the perjury scandal will now begin a campaign to make impeachment seem illegitimate. And he may succeed if Republicans allow him to spin the story by himself.
  12. "Paul Gigot — Editor, editorial page at the Wall Street Journal". Paul Gigot is the editorial page editor and vice president of The Wall Street Journal, a position he has held since 2001.
  13. "Paul Gigot Receives Wisconsin History Maker Award". Wisconsin Historical Society. 2006-05-23. Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  14. E&P Staff (2007-12-07). "Paul Gigot Elected to Pulitzer Board". Editor and Publisher. Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  15. "WSJ editor Gigot elected to Pulitzer board". The Hollywood Reporter. Associated Press. 2007-12-07. Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  16. Halperin, Mark; Heilemann, John (November 2013). Double Down: Game Change 2012. Penguin. p. 137. ISBN 978-1101638705. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  17. O'Shea, Chris (2015-05-06). "Paul Gigot Named Pulitzer Chair". Retrieved 2025-06-03.
  18. E&P Staff (2015-05-04). "Paul Gigot of The Wall Street Journal Named New Pulitzer Prize Board Chair". Editor and Publisher. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
  19. Gray, Rosie (10 February 2017). "Conflict Over Trump Forces Out an Opinion Editor at *The Wall Street Journal*". The Atlantic. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  20. Schwartz, Jason (30 October 2017). "Murdoch-owned outlets bash Mueller, seemingly in unison". Politico. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  21. Pompeo, Joe (1 November 2017). ""A Different Level of Crazy": Is Civil War Breaking Out in *The Wall Street Journal* Over the Editorial Board's Coverage of Mueller?". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  22. Salam, Reihan (31 October 2017). "Why the *Wall Street Journal* Is Calling for Robert Mueller's Ouster". Slate. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  23. "The Journal Editorial Report". Fox News. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  24. "2022 Alexander Hamilton Awards: Asness and Gigot". Manhattan Institute. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  25. "The intriguing guest list at the Manhattan Institute's 'springtime conservative prom'". City & State NY. 2022-05-04. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  26. "Paul Gigot interviews Mark Dubowitz on Israel, Hamas and Iran - Opinion: Potomac Watch - WSJ Podcasts". WSJ. Retrieved 2025-06-06.

External links

Pulitzer Prize for Commentary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Commentary)

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Corporate broadcast news covered this year’s COP30 global climate summit for 2 minutes — cable networks covered it for just over 3 hours

Fox News used COP30 to attack Gavin Newsom and undermine climate science

Special ProgramsClimate & Energy

Written by Allison Fisher

Published 11/26/25

COP30 — which proceeded without an official U.S. delegation — opened on November 6 while the main sessions got underway on November 10 and concluded on November 21.

This year’s conference sought to address numerous issues, creating a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels and a landmark declaration on the threat of disinformation in addressing climate change and a newly proposed initiative to reduce deforestation.

As in previous years, the gathering was met with protests by Indigenous and civil society groups calling for stronger climate action. This year, although 2,500 Indigenous people gathered in Belém, Brazil, for the summit, only 14% (360 individuals) received credentials to attend negotiations. (No members were part of Brazil’s official delegation.) By contrast, fossil fuel lobbyists were overrepresented at the COP30 climate negotiations to the chagrin of climate organizers and Indigenous climate activists. In one demonstration on November 14, indigenous groups blocked the entrance to the conference and demanded to speak to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Reporting on the protests by TV news outlets was sparse, while the attendance of California Gov. Gavin Newsom was widely covered. CNN and MSNBC discussed how the U.S. is falling behind in the clean energy technology race while China gains ground. Additionally, 22% of segments mentioned Bill Gates’ controversial climate memo to world leaders. Meanwhile, Fox News coverage attacked Newsom and undermined climate science.

Two brief headline reports, one from ABC and one from CBS, focused on the protests at the conference. Much of the broadcast coverage focused on a fire that broke out in one of the convention halls on November 20 — though none of the coverage of the fire offered more details about the climate conference.

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From the November 21, 2025, edition of NBC's Today

CNN’s coverage of COP30 featured several experts, including Christiana Figueres, a Costa Rican diplomat who was the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change during the 2015 Paris climate accord negotiations; Margaret Barry, a climate litigation fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University; Kim Cobb, climate scientist and director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society; as well as former vice president and climate advocate Al Gore.

A key narrative through CNN’s coverage was the state of the clean energy transition and China’s role in it.

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on November 8, Figueres explained some of the progress since the landmark Paris agreement in 2015: “Ten years ago, one in every hundred vehicles that were being sold was electric. Now, we have one in five. We have two times as much investment into renewable energy as we do into fossil fuels. Solar has been deployed 15 times faster than we ever expected 10 years ago, and on and on and on. There are many proof points that there is a new economy rising.”

Amanpour also interviewed Al Gore, who pointed out the cost of the U.S. ceding the clean energy economy to others.

“China is now exporting to other countries more green technology like electric vehicles and windmills and solar,” Gore said. “The value of their green tech exports now far exceeds the exports from the United States to the rest of the world. … We’re seeing this transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy and electric vehicles and batteries and these exciting new technologies that are pollution-free, they create three times as many jobs per dollar spent compared to the old dirty fossil fuels, and that’s where the economic future is.”

Climate scientist Kim Cobb made a similar argument on CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield*:

“China, of course, [is] transitioning its economy very, very quickly to clean energy sources. About 84% of the demand last year in China for electricity was met by clean energy sources. They are owning EVs, batteries, and solar cells to the tune of 78% of global manufacturing taking place in China for a $2 trillion industry. So right now what we’re looking at is China taking a very bold leadership role and charting its clean energy future. The U.S., in the meantime, swimming very much upstream against the global currents of deployed renewables, which are cheaper than fossil fuels right now.”

While MSNBC covered the climate conference for roughly 13 minutes, its coverage included similar narratives about clean energy. On his November 16 show, host Ali Velshi noted: “Now, in America's absence, China is stepping up as a global leader in climate science. The Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air reported last week that China's carbon emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months straight. Part of that is attributable to a record amount of renewable energy expansion in China. In 2024, the country installed 333 gigawatts of solar power capacity — that's more than the rest of the world combined.”

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From the November 12, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five

Discussing COP30 earlier in the same segment, Greg Gutfeld declared that the “climate agenda has been fully discredited” and that “the climate computer models have been shown to be corrupt.” He went on to falsely claim, “They are wrong on predicting everything from the temperature increases to the snow or ice melting.”

Laura Ingraham announced that scientists’ warnings on climate change have been “total scams.”

The network also hosted its usual round-up of climate contrarians and skeptics including Marc Morano, Bjorn Lomborg, Michael Shellenberger, and Victor Davis Hanson, and Fox coverage continued to cite the controversial October 28 climate memo from Bill Gates to global leaders ahead of COP30 to suggest that climate change is no longer considered a crisis requiring immediate action.

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From the November 15, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Journal Editorial Report

“I think what Bill Gates is really saying is something reasonable,” Lomborg agreed. “Talk about how you think about climate — he’s saying sure, it’s a problem, but it’s not the end of the world.”

In reality, 2025 is set to be the “second or third warmest year on record,” the World Meteorological Organization reports. The warmest year overall remains 2024, which was likely “the first calendar year with a global mean temperature of more than 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 average.”

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