Title: Executive Editor
Organization: The Miami Herald
Anders Gyllenhaal is executive editor of The Miami Herald, with responsibility for the news staff, from print and online, to radio and web TV.
In 2007, Gyllenhaal returned to The Herald, where he worked for 12 years as a reporter, investigative team member and city desk editor. From 2002 to 2007, he was editor of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and was executive editor of the Raleigh News & Observer for seven years before that.
A graduate of George Washington University, Gyllenhaal (pronounced Jill-in-hall) serves on the board of the Pulitzer Prize, chairs the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and is a member of the Journalism Advisory Board at Elon University in North Carolina. He has been a long-time advocate for press freedom and access and served as chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee for the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Anders and his wife, Beverly, a syndicated columnist and author, live in Coral Gables. They have two college-age children, Sam and Grey. In his free time, Gyllenhaal plays banjo with the New River Boys, a long-time South Florida bluegrass group.
