A list of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize Nominating Jurors is provided below.
An asterisk (*) indicates that the juror is a named Pulitzer Prize winner.
Journalism
Public Service:
- Gilbert Bailon, Editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Chair)
- Casey Frank, Senior Editor/Investigations and Enterprise, Miami Herald
- Lee Horwich, Managing Editor, National Enterprise, USA Today
- Joanne Lipman, author and former Editor-in-Chief, USA Today
- Kevin Merida, Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, The Undefeated
- Gary Putka, former Executive Editor, New England Center for Investigative Reporting
- Robyn Tomlin, Editor, The News & Observer and Regional Editor, McClatchy Carolinas
Breaking News Reporting:
- Julie Westfall, Politics Editor, Los Angeles Times (Chair)
- Michael A. Anastasi, Vice President and Editor, The Tennessean, Nashville, Tenn.
- Sam Davis, Managing Editor, The Baltimore Sun
- Marc Lacey, National Editor/Associate Masthead Editor, The New York Times
- Kyle Pope, Editor and Publisher, Columbia Journalism Review
Investigative Reporting:
- Peter Bhatia, Editor and Vice President, Detroit Free Press (Chair)
- Brian Carovillano, Vice President and Managing Editor, Associated Press
- Scott Klein, Deputy Managing Editor, ProPublica
- Lyle Muller, Executive Director and Editor, Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism
- Nate Silver, Editor-in-Chief, FiveThirtyEight
- Kara Swisher, Executive Editor, Recode
- Ben Welsh, Data Editor, Los Angeles Times
Explanatory Reporting:
- Deborah Henley, Editor and Vice President, Newsday (Chair)
- Reginald Chua, Chief Operating Officer, Reuters
- Matt Doig, Investigations Editor, The Information
- Michael Fannin, Editor and Vice President, The Kansas City Star
- Ezra Klein, Editor-at-Large, Vox
- Cindy McCurry-Ross, Executive Editor, The News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla.
- Ed Yong, Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Local Reporting:
- Rene Sanchez, Executive Editor, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn. (Chair)
- Greg Burton, Executive Editor, The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, Calif.; Regional Editor, USA Today Network
- Lee Ann Colacioppo, Editor, The Denver Post
- Jane Harrigan, Former Professor and Journalism Director, University of New Hampshire
- Sherrie Marshall, Executive Editor, The Telegraph, Macon, Ga.
- Debra Adams Simmons, Executive Editor, Culture, National Geographic
- Hollis Towns, Executive Editor and Vice President for News, Asbury Park Press; Regional Vice President of News, Gannett New Jersey
National Reporting:
- Ken Armstrong, Senior Reporter, ProPublica (Chair)*
- Susan Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic
- Carlos Lozada, Associate Editor and Nonfiction Book Critic, The Washington Post
- Kristin Roberts, Executive Editor, McClatchy Washington
- Jeff Taylor, Editor and Vice President for News, The Indianapolis Star; Regional Editor, USA Today Network*
International Reporting:
- Trish Wilson, International Investigations Editor, Associated Press (Chair)
- Jill Abramson, Senior Lecturer, Harvard University and Columnist, The Guardian
- Neela Banerjee, Senior Reporter, InsideClimate News
- Ethan Bronner, Senior Editor, Bloomberg News
- Efrain Hernandez Jr., Assistant Foreign & National Editor, Los Angeles Times
Feature Writing:
- Keith Campbell, Deputy Managing Editor/News, Business and Sundays, The Dallas Morning News (Chair)
- Adam Cohen, Co-Editor, The National Book Review
- Audrey Cooper, Editor-in-Chief, San Francisco Chronicle
- Felecia Henderson, Assistant Managing Editor, Features, The Detroit News
- Rachel Morris, Executive Editor, HuffPost Highline
- Eli Sanders, Associate Editor, The Stranger, Seattle, Wash.*
- Paige Williams, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Commentary:
- E.R. Shipp, Associate Professor, School of Global Journalism and Communication, Morgan State University (Chair)*
- Aimee Bell, Deputy Editor, Vanity Fair
- Katti Gray, freelance journalist, Monticello, N.Y.
- Laura Gunderson, Editorial Page Editor, The Oregonian Media Group, Portland, Ore.
- Ayan Mittra, Editor, The Texas Tribune, Austin, Texas
- Colleen McCain Nelson, Vice President and Editorial Page Editor, The Kansas City Star*
- Dawn Turner, freelance journalist, Chicago, Ill.
Criticism:
- Alana Newhouse, Editor-in-Chief, Tablet (Chair)
- Lorraine Branham, Dean and Professor, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
- Michael I. Days, Vice President and Editor for Reader Engagement, The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Michael Schaffer, Editor, Washingtonian
- Jay Stowe, former Editor-in-Chief, Cincinnati
Editorial Writing:
- Jon Sawyer, Executive Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (Chair)
- Felice H. Belman, Deputy Editor, News, The Boston Globe
- Jelani Cobb, Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Jeffrey Good, former Executive Editor, Daily Hampshire Gazette and Greenfield Recorder, Northampton, Mass.*
- Jacob Weisberg, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, The Slate Group
Editorial Cartooning:
- Jim Strauss, President and Publisher, Great Falls (MT) Tribune Media (Chair)
- Matthew Carroll, Professor of the Practice of Journalism, Northeastern University
- Veda Morgan, News Director, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.
- Sandra E. Sanchez, Opinion Editor, The Monitor, McAllen, Texas
- Matthew J. Von Pinnon, Editor-in-Chief, The Forum of Fargo–Moorhead, N.D.
Breaking News and Feature Photography:
- Sherman Williams, Assistant Managing Editor, Visual Journalism, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Chair)
- Andrea Bruce, Photographer, NOOR Images, Mt. Rainier, Md.
- Danese Kenon, Deputy Director of Photography for Video/Multimedia, Tampa Bay Times
- Michelle McDonald, Photo Editor, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
- Shazna Nessa, Deputy Managing Editor and Global Head of Visuals, The Wall Street Journal
Letters, Drama and Music
Fiction:
- Nancy Pearl, author and retired librarian, Seattle, Wash. (Chair)
- Leah Hager Cohen, Barrett Professor of Creative Writing, College of the Holy Cross
- Elizabeth McCracken, James A. Michener Chair in Creative Writing, University of Texas, Austin
Drama:
- Dominic Papatola, Theater Critic, St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chair)
- Karen d’Souza, Theater Writer, San Jose Mercury News
- Quiara Alegría Hudes, playwright, New York, N.Y.*
- Linda Winer, theater critic, New York, N.Y.
History:
- Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago (Chair)
- Allyson Hobbs, Associate Professor of History and Director of African & African American Studies, Stanford University
- Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and History, Harvard University*
Biography:
- Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History and Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (Chair)*
- Gilbert King, author, Brooklyn, N.Y.*
- Amy Wilentz, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine
Poetry:
- Alison Hawthorne Deming, Agnes Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and Regents’ Professor, University of Arizona (Chair)
- David Baker, Poetry Editor, The Kenyon Review and Professor of English, Denison University
- Thomas Lynch, writer and undertaker, Indian River, MI
General Nonfiction:
- Ann Fabian, Distinguished Professor, Emerita of History, Rutgers University (Chair)
- Laurent Dubois, Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University
- Elizabeth Kolbert, Staff Writer, The New Yorker*
Music:
- Regina Carter, jazz violinist, Maywood, N.J. (Chair)
- Paul Cremo, Dramaturg/Director of Opera Commissioning Program, The Metropolitan Opera
- Farah Jasmine Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies, Columbia University
- David Hajdu, Music Critic, The Nation and Professor of Journalism, Columbia University
- David Lang, composer, New York, N.Y.*