Chris Satullo

Satullo is executive director for news and civic dialogue at WHYY, the public broadcasting company in Philadelphia. He joined WHYY in December 2008.

Previously, Satullo was a columnist and director of civic engagement for the Philadelphia Inquirer. From 2000 to 2007, he was editorial page editor for the paper. In that role, he founded the paper’s Citizen Voices and Great Expectations projects in citizen dialogue around public issues. He won the 2000 James F. Batten Award for Civic Journalism for a Citizen Voices project on city elections in Philadelphia. The Great Expectations project on the 2007 city elections won a 2008 National Headliners Award for journalistic innovation. He has won more than 40 awards for newswriting, columns, and editorials.

Satullo is cofounder of the Project for Civic Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania. He was author of the National Issues Forum issue book Crime and Punishment: Is Justice Being Served?, serves on the board of the Kettering Foundation’s Fanning Fellowship, and has spoken on civic dialogue to groups ranging from the National Civic League to the Poynter Institute to the American Institute of Architects. He’s a graduate of Williams College and a former Fulbright Fellow.