Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler is the vice president of content and community at the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), overseeing ICFJ’s work with a global network of journalists, as well as the organization’s overall communications strategy.

Before working at ICFJ, he spent five months in Nicaragua in 1999, training journalists as an ICFJ Knight Fellow. He also worked for ten years as a reporter and editor for The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, where he worked on general assignment, economy, finance and special news stories. His time at those newspapers also included stories reported from Latin America and Africa.

Before joining The State, Butler worked as a journalist at the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the San Jose Mercury News. In 1999, the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York recognized his reporting on Latino immigration to the southern United States as one of the year’s best examples of coverage of racial and ethnic issues.

He has a degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of Missouri.