Neill A. Borowski is an American journalist, and executive editor of Gannett's Central New York Media Group. He was executive editor of The Press of Atlantic City.[1] [2] from 2009 to 2013 when he joined the CNY Media Group. He won the 1994 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, with Gilbert M. Gaul.[3] He was a Pulitzer finalist.[4] The Central NY Media Group includes three daily newspapers and websites: the Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, the Star-Gazette in Elmira and The Ithaca Journal.
He graduated from University of Bridgeport, and from Columbia University, with a Masters in journalism. He studied economics at Temple University, and taught journalism at Temple University. He was a Knight Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism in 1979–80, at the Columbia Business School.
He served as a reporter, editor and assistant circulation director for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1983 to 2004. He founded The Inquirer's computer-assisted reporting team in 1993. He was assistant managing editor, at The Indianapolis Star from 2004 to 2006.[5] He was managing editor at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York, from 2006 to 2009. He participated in Columbia Journalism School's Punch Sulzberger leadership program in 2011.[6]