Sig Gissler is an American former professor of journalism at Columbia University and the former administrator of the Pulitzer Prize.
[1] After writing for the Libertyville Independent-Register and serving as executive editor of the Waukegan News-Sun, he joined The Milwaukee Journal in 1967.
During his tenure, the Journal assembled a more diverse staff and completed a year-long examination of racial issues in 1991.
From 2002 to 2014, he served as the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes while remaining a special faculty member at the Graduate School of Journalism.
In a press release of 21 November 2003, he stated that with regard to the 13 articles by Duranty from 1931 submitted for the award "there was not clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception, the relevant standard in this case.