Pulitzer Prize Board 2002-2003

Andrew Barnes, chairman of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and former chairman and CEO of the St. Petersburg Times, is a native of New York City and a graduate of Harvard University where he took his degree in history.

He began his professional career on the Providence (R.I.) Journal. After two years in the Army, he joined the Washington Post in 1965. During his eight years at the Post, he rose from reporter to deputy metropolitan editor before taking charge of the Post's education bureau. During 1969-70, he traveled in Europe and Africa on an Alicia Patterson Fellowship studying urban change.

In 1973, Barnes joined the St. Petersburg Times as assistant managing editor and metropolitan editor; in February 1976, he was promoted to managing editor. He became editor and president in April, 1984. In 1988 he succeeded Gene Patterson as chief executive of the Times Publishing Company and chairman of The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. He relinquished the titles of Editor and President to Paul Tash in February 2000.

He is immediate past-Chairman of the Newspaper Association of America, and past chairman of the American Society of Newspaper Editors Ethics Committee. He was named to the Pulitzer Board in 1996.

Barnes is married to the former Molly Otis; they have two sons, a daughter, and three grandchildren.

Amanda Bennett, Executive Editor/Enterprise for Bloomberg News, was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2002. Bennett was editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer from June, 2003, to November, 2006, and prior to that was editor of the Herald-Leader in Lexington, KY. She also served for three years as managing editor/projects for The Oregonian in Portland. Bennett served as a Wall Street Journal reporter for more than 20 years.

A cum laude graduate of Harvard College, she held numerous posts at the paper, including auto industry reporter in Detroit in the late 70s and early 80s, Pentagon and State Department reporter, Beijing correspondent, management editor/reporter, national economics correspondent and, finally, chief of the Atlanta bureau until 1998, when she moved to The Oregonian.

No stranger to the Pulitzers, in 1997 Bennett shared the Prize for national reporting with her Journal colleagues, and in 2001 during her tenure at The Oregonian, that paper won a Pulitzer for public service. She is the author of five books including In Memoriam (1998), co-authored with Terence B. Foley; The Man Who Stayed Behind, co-authored with Sidney Rittenberg (1993), and Death of the Organization Man (1991).

Louis D. Boccardi, president and chief executive officer of Associated Press, has been elected chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board. His selection was announced by President George Rupp. Columbia University awards the annual prizes on the board's recommendation.

Boccardi has been president and chief executive officer of Associated Press, the world's largest news organization, since 1985. Prior to assuming the presidency, he served one year as executive vice president and chief operating officer and 10 years as executive editor in charge of AP's news operations.

Born in New York City, Boccardi holds a B.A. degree from Fordham College and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia. He joined the AP as executive assistant to the general news editor in 1967 after eight years with New York newspapers, during which he rose to the position of assistant managing editor of the World-Telegram and Sun and its successor newspaper, The World Journal Tribune. He was appointed AP managing editor in 1969, executive editor in 1973 and vice president in 1975.

In 1990 Boccardi was elected a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, the highest honor SPJ awards journalists for public service. He has received the William Allen White Foundation Award for Journalistic Merit, the Overseas Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Award and was elected a Distinguished Service Member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Boccardi and the AP were awarded the 2001 John Peter and Anna Catherine Zenger award for Freedom of the Press and the Public's Right to Know.

Boccardi is a member of the national advisory board of the Freedom Forum Center for Media Studies, the board of trustees of the Newseum, and the board of visitors of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, and is an honorary trustee of the William Allen White Foundation at the University of Kansas.

Elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board in 1994, Boccardi succeeds Edward Seaton, editor in chief of The Manhattan (Kan.) Mercury, who has retired from the board after having served as chair. Members of the board serve a maximum of nine years.

Columbia University press release published May 08, 2001

Lee C. Bollinger is a renowned legal scholar, with an expertise in free speech and the First Amendment. He is an alumnus of Columbia's Law School, where he is also a professor. He became president of Columbia University on June 1, 2002. 

Born in Santa Rosa, California, Bollinger was raised there and in Baker City, Oregon. He went on to graduate from the University of Oregon in 1968 and received a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He served as a law clerk to Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Chief Justice Warren Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court. Bollinger went on to join the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 1973, becoming dean of the school in 1987. He became provost of Dartmouth College in 1994 before returning to the University of Michigan in 1996 as president.

Bollinger has authored many articles and books on the subject of free speech such as "The Tolerant Society" (Oxford University Press, 1988) and "Images of a Free Press" (University of Chicago Press, 1991).

President Bollinger is married to artist Jean Magnano Bollinger. They have two children.

Joann Byrd retired June 2, 2003, after six years as the editorial page editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

From June 1992 to June 1995, she was ombudsman at The Washington Post, and had been executive editor of The Herald, Everett, WA, for 12 years.

After getting a master's in philosophy, Joann taught journalism ethics at the University of Washington and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She was chair of the American Society of Newspaper Editors Ethics and Values Committee, and is primary creator of The Ethics Tool, a decision-making procedure for journalists, posted on the Poynter website.

She is writing a book about the Heppner, Oregon, flood of 1903.

Joann Byrd joined the Pulitzer Board in 1999. She co-chaired the 2008 Pulitzer Prize Board.

John S. Carroll, 60,  has been editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times since 2000 and vice president of Times Mirror since 1998.

Previously, he was editor of The Baltimore Sun and senior vice president of The Baltimore Sun Company for nine years. Prior to that he served as editor, vice president and executive vice president at the Lexington Herald-Leader.

The Rhode Island native spent two years in the military after earning a bachelor's degree in English literature from Haverford College. He later studied as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and as a Visiting Journalist Fellow at Oxford University, in the late 1980s.

His first reporting job was as staff reporter at the Providence Journal-Bulletin in 1963. He went on to become a reporter and later a foreign correspondent at The Baltimore Sun and worked as an editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer in the 1970s.

Named Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation in 1998, Carroll also has a longtime affiliation with the American Society of Newspaper Editors, having served on the organization's board of directors and its Writing Awards Board.

Carroll was elected as a Pulitzer Prize Board member in 1994. Carroll has also served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, chair of the Afro-American Studies Department and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University.

With 40 honorary degrees, Gates is a world-renowned scholar and teacher of African and African-American history and culture. He has authored seven books and written numerous essays and reviews on a broad range of African and African-American issues, including slavery, race, feminism, dialect and identity.

In 1989 he won the American Book Award for The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. And he recently completed his second major documentary, America Beyond the Color Line. He also authored Colored People: A Memoir in 1994, tracing his childhood experiences in a small West Virginia town in the 1950s and 1960s; The Future of the Race (1996), co-authored with Cornel West; and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997).

Gates has edited several anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (1996). He wrote a 1994 cover story for Time magazine on the new black Renaissance in art, and has written numerous articles for the New Yorker. In 2000, Gates authored, along with Cornel West, the widely acclaimed The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century. That came on the heels of the authoritative and groundbreaking Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, a collaboration with K. Anthony Appiah. It was also published on a CD-ROM as Encarta Africana by Microsoft. More recently, Gates authenticated the first novel by a female fugitive slave, The Bondwoman's Narrative.

Gates began his tenure at Harvard in 1991 after serving on the faculties at Duke, Cornell, and Yale. He is a 1973 summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. (1979) from Clare College, The University of Cambridge.

Gates has received dozens of awards and honors, including the National Humanities Award presented by President Bill Clinton in 1998, the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" (1981), and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999).

He has been named one of the "25 Most Influential Americans" by Time magazine in 1997, the year he joined the Pulitzer Board.

Sig Gissler has been administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes since 2002. A special faculty member at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Gissler is founder of "Let's Do It Better," the school's national Workshops on Journalism, Race and Ethnicity. He is the former editor of the Milwaukee Journal. During his 25 years with the paper, he served as reporter, editorial page editor and associate editor before becoming editor in 1985. Gissler left the paper in 1993 to become a senior fellow at the Freedom Forum's Media Studies Center, exploring media coverage of race.

He joined the Columbia faculty in 1994 where he taught reporting and writing and created a seminar called "Race and Ethnicity in the New Urban America."

In 1998, Gissler was voted teacher of the year at the journalism school and in 2002 was given a Presidential Teaching Award at Columbia, one of five professors out of 300 nominated campus-wide.

A graduate of Lake Forest College, Gissler was a Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1975-1976 and a visiting professor at Stanford in 1993. He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and a former Pulitzer Prize juror.

Pulitzer Prize Board member since 2002. He is the current administrator of the Prizes.

Donald E. Graham became chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company in 1991 and chairman of the board in 1993. Publisher of the The Washington Post newspaper since 1979, Graham is a trustee of the Federal City Council in Washington, D.C., chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program, and a member of the board of directors of The Summit Fund of Washington.

A 1966 graduate of Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson, Graham served as an information specialist with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. Later, he became a patrolman with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, a reporter at The Washington Post and held several news and business positions at Newsweek. Graham was elected a director of The Washington Post Company in 1974 and served as president from 1991-1993; he was named executive vice president and general manager of The Washington Post in 1976.

Graham served as a Pulitzer Prize board member from 1999-2008.

Anders Gyllenhaal was named executive editor of the Miami Herald in 2007. From 2002 to 2007, Gyllenhaal (pronounced JILL-in-hall), was editor and senior vice president at the Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul. Previously, he was executive editor and senior vice president of the News & Observer in Raleigh, NC. He joined the News & Observer in 1991 and worked as metro editor and managing editor before becoming editor in 1997.

Born in Cleveland, OH, and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania, Gyllenhaal is a graduate of George Washington University. His first reporting job was at the Daily News Record in Harrisonburg, VA. Following that, he worked at The Press in Atlantic City, and then the Miami Herald, where he spent 12 years as a reporter, editor and head of the paper's Fort Lauderdale office.

He is married to Beverly Mills Gyllenhaal, who writes a weekly cooking column that appears in approximately 115 papers across the U.S. and Canada. He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Gyllenhaal joined the Pulitzer Board in 2001.

Jay T. Harris, the former publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, is director of The Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California.

In his 30 years in journalism, Harris has worked as a reporter, editor, educator and corporate executive. Appointed publisher of the Mercury News in 1994, Harris emphasized more complete coverage of community life, increased the quality and quantity of news about Silicon Valley business and high technology, and launched weekly Spanish and Vietnamese-language newspapers.

After beginning his journalism career as a reporter and editor at the Wilmington (Del.) News-Journal, Harris joined the faculty, and served as assistant dean, of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. While at Medill, he designed and launched the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual national census of minority employment in daily newspapers, which remains the industry benchmark to this day. He worked as a national correspondent and columnist for the Gannett News Service and was executive editor of the Philadelphia Daily News before moving to Knight Ridder's corporate staff, where he served as assistant to the president of the Newspaper Division and, later, vice president of operations, where he was responsible for the business operations of nine of the company's newspapers.

Harris has been recognized with awards from numerous universities, nonprofit and social justice organizations, and national journalism and journalism education organizations, including honorary doctorates from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, his alma mater, and Santa Clara University in California.

Harris joined the Pulitzer Board in 2000.

David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and professor, has taught at Stanford University since 1967 and was named the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History in 1993. His many books include the 1971 Bancroft prize-winningBirth Control in America; 1981 Pulitzer Prize finalist Over Here: The First World War and American Society, and Freedom From Fear, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 2000.

The Seattle native earned a B.A. in history in 1963 from Stanford University, then continued his studies at Yale, where he was awarded a master's degree and doctorate in American Studies. In 1967, Kennedy returned to Stanford, where he has taught since, with the exception of two visiting professorships at the University of Florence and at Oxford University.

Kennedy has been the U.S. delegate to Oxford University Press since 1997, and was a U.S. International Communications Agency Lecturer in Italy, Denmark, Finland,Turkey, Ireland and Germany. In the States, Kennedy has served on the boards of many organizations, including the Educational Testing Service's Test Development Committee for Advanced Placement Examination in U.S. History as well as the advisory boards of several PBS television series, including "The American Experience."

Among his many honors, Kennedy was named a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation and was selected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

His writings have appeared in numerous publications including The Historian, Reviews in American History, Encyclopedia of American Biography, the Dictionary of American Biography, as well as others including The Nation, The New Republic, The London Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

Kennedy served as a Pulitzer Prize juror in the history category in 1984, 1994 and 2002. He was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2002.

David Klatell is a recognized expert on the development and management of journalism education and training programs. He has advised universities and professional organizations in more than 20 nations across Europe, Africa and Asia. Until 2008 he held the positions of Vice Dean and Academic Dean at the Journalism School. Before joining Columbia University, he served as chairman of the journalism department and director of the School of Journalism at Boston University,where he taught for 17 years. He has also taught and lectured at many universities, including Harvard and M.I.T., where he was co-director of The News Study Group, a journalism research center.

Professor Klatell was a professional broadcast journalist, winning awards as an editor and producer of news and documentary films. He is the co-author of two books about the business relationships between television and sports, and his articles about television have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and other major newspapers and magazines. He served for many years as chairman of the jury for the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in broadcast journalism.

As a professional consultant, he advised the development of television news organizations in Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and China. He also served as director of international station development for New York Times Television and Video News International.

His interests are centered on converging media and the business models needed to sustain them. Currently, he teaches a seminar titled, "Re-inventing Television News."

He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Boston University.

Richard Oppel has been editor of the Austin American-Statesman since 1995 and is responsible for news and editorial content.

After serving in the Marine Corps, he graduated from the University of South Florida and began his career with the Tampa Tribune. He worked for the Associated Press and the Detroit Free Press before becoming executive editor of the Tallahassee Democrat in 1977, and then editor of the Charlotte Observer in 1978.

During his 15 years in Charlotte, the Observer won two Pulitzers, both gold medals for meritorious public service, and shared a Pulitzer with the Atlanta Constitution for editorial cartoons. Oppel has been the National Press Foundation's Editor of the Year, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and president of the North Carolina Press Association.

He and his wife Carol have two children, Richard Jr., a New York Times reporter; and Shelby Oppel Wood, a Portland Oregonian reporter.

He became a Pulitzer Board member in 2000.

Named one of the most powerful women in Texas by Texas Monthly magazine, Rena Pederson has held senior posts at the Dallas Morning News since 1973. As editor at large since 2002, she writes a weekly column for the paper's Sunday Reader section as well as profiles and enterprise feature stories. She previously served as a vice president and editorial page editor, supervising the staff and content of the opinion pages for 16 years. Under her leadership, the editorial team was named a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing.

After completing a bachelor's degree in journalism with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, she went on to graduate from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism in 1970.

Pederson's editorial writing has earned awards from United Press International and the Associated Press Managing Editors association. She has also written two books: What's Next? Women Redefining Their Dreams in the Prime of Life (2001) and most recently, What's Missing? The Faith Factor for Women (2003), which profiles well-known contemporary American women including Laura Bush, Diane Sawyer, Peggy Noonan and Judy Collins.

Currently, Pederson chairs the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the Dallas Historical Society and the Dallas Museum of Natural History, among others. A member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, she is also a past president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers.

Mike Pride has been editor of the Concord Monitor since 1983. Prior to that, he served as its managing editor. Under his editorship the Monitor has won the New England Newspaper of the Year Award 19 times, as well as numerous national awards for excellence. The paper has been cited byTime magazine and the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the best papers in the country.

Before joining the Monitor, Pride was city editor of theClearwater Sun and the Tallahassee Democrat. A graduate of the University of South Florida, he served as a Russian linguist in the Army during the late 1960s and began his journalism career as a sports writer at the Tampa Tribune.

Pride was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1984-85. He won the National Press Foundation's editor of the year award in 1987 for directing theMonitor's coverage of the Challenger disaster and later the Yankee Quill Award for contributions to New England journalism.

In 2004, Pride was Weinstein scholar-in-residence at Gettysburg College, where he co-taught a course in presidential politics. He has also been a lecturer and tour guide at the Civil War Institute at the college. In 2005, he was a Hoover media fellow at Stanford University.

Pride is a former chairman of the Small Newspapers Committee of the American Society of Newspapers Editors and also served on the society's writing awards board. He is a member of the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award committee at Colby College and the Sarah Josepha Hale Award committee in Newport, NH.

He is the co-author of My Brave Boys, a Civil War history, and Too Dead to Die,the memoir of a Bataan Death March survivor, and the co-editor of The New Hampshire Century.

Pride joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 1999.

Sandra Mims Rowe, editor of The Oregonian, the largest daily newspaper in the Northwest, has been elected chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board. She has served as a board member since 1994.

Rowe has been editor of The Oregonian since 1993. She previously made her mark in journalism in Virginia where she spent 22 years at The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star. Rowe rose to executive editor and vice president at the combined papers in 1984, a post she held until 1993. On her watch, the papers won the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting in 1985. For her work in Virginia, Rowe was inducted into the Virginia Journalism Hall of Fame in 2000.

Also, under her leadership, The Oregonian has won three Pulitzer Prizes and been a finalist four additional times. The Oregonian won the prize for explanatory reporting in 1999 and, in 2001, both the feature writing prize and the Gold Medal for Public Service.

Rowe has also served in a leadership role for many distinguished journalism organizations. She is a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE). Currently she chairs the Knight Foundation Journalism Advisory Board, is a board member for the Medill School of Journalism's Board of Visitors at Northwestern University, and is chair of the Board of Visitors for the Knight Fellowships at Stanford University.

She is a 1970 graduate of East Carolina University and completed the Management Development Program in 1990 at Harvard's Graduate School of Business.

As newly elected chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Rowe succeeds John S. Carroll, editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times and vice president of Times Mirror, who will continue to serve as a board member.

The 2003 Pulitzer Prizes will be announced on April 7 and presented on May 29 at Columbia University. Columbia awards the Pulitzer Prizes on the board's recommendation. Members of the board serve a maximum of nine years.

William Safire, who won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1978, has been a political columnist for the New York Times since 1973. Readers also know him for his New York Times Magazine column "On Language" upon which he has based 13 books. Previously, Safire served as a senior White House speech-writer for President Nixon.

The New York City native began his journalism career as a reporter with the New York Herald Tribune, after attending Syracuse University for two years. Safire also spent time as a radio and TV producer as well as a U.S. Army correspondent. In the late 1950s, while serving as a vice president of a New York public relations firm, he was responsible for bringing together then-Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev for their Cold-War era "kitchen debate" in Moscow.

Among Safire's numerous books are four novels: Freedom (1987) about Lincoln and the Civil War, Full Disclosure (1977), Sleeper Spy (1995), and Scandalmonger (2000) about press freedom and vituperation in the post-Revolutionary era. Other works include a political dictionary, a commentary on the Book of Job, and anthologies.

Safire also serves as chairman of the Dana Foundation, a philanthropic organization supporting arts education and neuroscience, and serves on the board of trustees of Syracuse University.

Paul Steiger is the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and a vice president of Dow Jones & Company. The editors of the Wall Street Journal Online, the Wall Street Journal Europe and the Wall Street Journal Asia also report to him.

Mr. Steiger joined the Journal in 1966 as a reporter in the San Francisco bureau. In 1968, he moved to the Los Angeles Times as a staff writer and in 1971 transferred to that paper's Washington, DC, bureau as an economics correspondent. He returned to Los Angeles in 1978 to serve as the Times' business editor.

In 1983, Mr. Steiger rejoined the Journal as an assistant managing editor in New York and became a deputy managing editor in April 1985. He was appointed managing editor in June 1991 and became a vice president of the Journal in May 1992. Under his leadership, Wall Street Journal reporters and editors have won 14 Pulitzer Prizes in 14 years.

In 2002, Mr. Steiger was selected the first recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Leadership Award, honoring his more than a decade of leadership at the Wall Street Journal. The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA honored him with the 2002 Gerald Loeb Award for lifetime achievement. Also in 2002, he was awarded the Columbia Journalism Award, given to honor a "singular journalistic performance in the public interest," and the highest honor awarded by the Columbia University School of Journalism. He was named a 2001-2002 Poynter Fellow by Yale University. The National Press Foundation awarded him the 2001 George Beveridge Editor of the Year Award for qualities that produce excellence in media. In 2006, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded him an Emmy for Lifetime Achievement in Business & Financial Reporting. Mr. Steiger personally won three Gerald Loeb Awards and two John Hancock awards for his economics and business coverage. He is co-author of the book, The '70s Crash and How to Survive It, published in 1970.

Born in New York City, Mr. Steiger graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in economics. He joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 1998.