Since 2017, Dana Canedy has overseen the Pulitzer Prizes, notably pushing the prestigious awards to acknowledge an increasingly diverse body of work, and last year, she became the third woman and first Black person to take over Simon & Schuster’s namesake imprint as senior vice president and publisher. While she did not have any publishing house experience prior to taking on the role, her impressive 20-year career as a reporter and senior editor for The New York Times, covering business, politics, race and class, as well as her time at Pulitzer, should serve her well running Simon & Schuster’s largest and biggest revenue-generating imprint.
