Phil Bronstein is Executive Vice President and Editor-at-Large of Hearst Newspapers Division and the San Francisco Chronicle.

As Editor-at-Large, Bronstein is responsible for broader strategic decisions at the San Francisco Chronicle and for the Hearst Corporation. Bronstein represents the Chronicle in community affairs and is the principal public face of the paper. In addition, Bronstein supports all departments helping to shape the role of the Chronicle and its Web site, sfgate.com. Bronstein is working with Hearst's General Counsel on First Amendment issues as well as writing and collaborating with Hearst's top digital media executives identifying ideas and content that can be applied across the company.

Bronstein was Executive Vice President and Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle from November of 2000 until named to his new position in January 2008.

Bronstein is the former Executive Editor of the San Francisco Examiner. Prior to assuming that post in December 1991, he was Managing Editor for News. He had been a reporter with the San Francisco Examiner since 1980.

As a reporter, Bronstein specialized in investigative projects and was a foreign correspondent for eight years. He has won awards for his coverage of the Philippines from the Overseas Press Club, Associated Press, the World Affairs Council and Media Alliance. He was a 1986 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his work in the Philippines and went on to cover conflicts in other parts of Southeast Asia, El Salvador, Peru and the Middle East.

Previously he was a reporter with KQED-TV in San Francisco (PBS) where he won awards for his investigative reports on the dangers of PCB's and the sweatshops of Chinatown.

Bronstein received an honorary doctorate in Public Service from Notre Dame de Namur in 2002.

He is the former chairman of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) International Committee. He is on the Board of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley.