Paul Anthony Gigot (; born May 24, 1955) is an American

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–winning

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and editor of the editorial pages for ''

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''. He is also the moderator of the public affairs

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'', a program reflecting the ''Journal''s editorial views which airs on Fox News Channel.

Early life

Paul Gigot was born in

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, and he and his family moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin, not long afterward. He is

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and attended Catholic schools for 12 years. He graduated from Abbot Pennings High School in

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in 1973. He graduated '' summa cum laude'' from

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in 1977, where he was Editor-in-Chief of ''

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''. He was a student of English professor and conservative columnist

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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

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. Two years later he became the paper's Asia correspondent in

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. While in Hong Kong in 1984, Gigot was placed in charge of ''

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''. From 1986 to 1987, Gigot served as a

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under President

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. During the 1990s, he was a regular guest on ''

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'', appearing in the program's weekly political analysis segment, opposite

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, the regular

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pundit. In 2000, Gigot won a

for his weekly "Potomac Watch" column in ''The Wall Street Journal'', and became the ''Journal''s vice president and editorial-page editor in 2001. Paul Gigot has been described as leading opposition to the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, via the editorial pages of ''The Wall Street Journal''. 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

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. Gigot refused to comment on the personnel change. Under Gigot's tenure as editorial page editor and vice president, ''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. Gigot hosts the weekly cable show ''

'' on Fox News Channel.

Notes

External links

Biography of Gigot on Opinion Journal

January 2005 editorial exhorting Republican policy leadership
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