Dick Tofel is Principal at Gallatin Advisory LLC, an advisory group focused on the media business. He was the founding general manager of ProPublica from 2007-2012, and its president from 2013-2021. During the period of Tofel’s business leadership, ProPublica published stories that won seven Pulitzer Prizes, five Peabody Awards, and three Emmy Awards, among other honors. Previously, Tofel was assistant publisher of The Wall Street Journal and general counsel at Dow Jones & Company and the Rockefeller Foundation. From August 2021 through 2023, Tofel was a distinguished visiting fellow in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he led a faculty seminar on “The Pandemic, the Press, and Public Health.” He is now an Instructor at the school and teaches a course on “Engaging with the Press.” He is also author of the Second Rough Draft substack newsletter.
