Paul Steiger is president and editor-in-chief of ProPublica, a New York-based non-profit newsroom focused on investigative journalism, a position he assumed beginning January 2008. Steiger was previously editor-at-large at The Wall Street Journal, having stepped down in May 2007 from a 15-year stint as managing editor and vice president of Dow Jones & Company. 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 he transferred to that paper’s Washington, D.C. bureau as an economic correspondent. He returned to Los Angeles in 1978 to serve as the Times’ business editor.
In 1983, Steiger rejoined the Journal as an assistant managing editor in New York and became deputy managing editor in April 1985. He was appointed managing editor in June 1991 and became a vice president in May 1992. Under his leadership, The Wall Street Journal’s reporters and editors won numerous Pulitzer Prizes. Editors and news staffs of the European and Asian Journals began reporting to him in July 2002.
Steiger was elected chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2005. The same year, Steiger was honored with the "Decade of Excellence" award from the World Leadership Forum.
In November 2007, the National Press Club awarded Steiger the Fourth Estate Award, its highest honor, for “a lifetime of contributions to American journalism.” In 2002, Steiger was selected as the first recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Leadership Award, honoring 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 2001-02 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 March 1999, he was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board. Steiger 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, Steiger graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in economics.
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Andrew Alexander is the Washington bureau chief for Cox Newspapers, overseeing a staff of roughly 25 reporters and editors in the nation's capital as well as bureaus in Baghdad, Jerusalem, London, Beijing, Mexico City, the Caribbean, New York, and the West Coast.
Alexander began his career as a reporter for the Melbourne Herald in Australia, later joining the Dayton Journal-Herald, where he worked as an investigative reporter and political writer. He came to the Cox Washington Bureau in 1976 as the Journal-Herald's correspondent, joined the national staff in 1984, and was named foreign editor in 1989. Alexander became deputy bureau chief in 1994 and was named bureau chief in 1997. He has reported from more than 50 countries and covered armed conflicts in Vietnam, Angola, Iran, and Iraq.
Alexander has won or shared in the Raymond Clapper Award for distinguished Washington correspondence, the Global Media Award, the Thomas L. Stokes Award for environmental reporting, the Ohio Associated Press Award for investigative reporting (twice), and the Ohio Associated Press Award for feature writing.
Born in Rochester, N.Y., and reared in the Ohio town of Urbana, Alexander graduated from Ohio University with a degree in journalism. He is the chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and serves on the advisory board of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
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Franz Allina was counsel to the office of the appellate defender in 2003 and 2004. Awarded his law degree from the Cardozo School of Law in 1993, he has worked on capital appeals in Florida, Arkansas, and Missouri. From 1993 to 1995 he was coordinator of the special committee on capital representation for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is the co-author of the 1993 book, The Crisis in Capital Representation.
Allina won awards for broadcast editorials from 1979 to 1987, while serving as chairman and president of The Radio Company Inc., which operated FM and AM stations in New York, Connecticut and California. From 1971 to 1979, he was president and a director of CTW Communications, Inc., a venture capital subsidiary of the Sesame Workshop.
Allina has served as consultant to the president of CBS on Congressional oversight of television programming. He is the author of early critiques of the U.S. Fairness Doctrine and, with Henry Geller, of the FCC equal time rule.
Allina conducted missions to Malaysia for CPJ and for the anticensorship group, Article 19. He has participated in CPJ missions to Haiti and Indonesia.
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Christiane Amanpour is CNN's chief international correspondent, based in London. Amanpour has reported on crises in global hotspots such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda and the Balkans. Her coverage of the conflict in the Balkans earned wide acclaim, and her many high-profile interviews have made news.
Amanpour interviewed French President Jacques Chirac prior to the 2003 conflict in Iraq; British Prime Minister Tony Blair just after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; Mahmoud Abbas, the first Palestinian prime minister, in 2003; Mikhail Gorbachev for the 10th anniversary of the fall of communism; and Jordan's King Abdullah in May 1999. She was the last journalist to interview the king's father, the long-reigning King Hussein, days before his death.
Amanpour brought the Bosnian tragedy into context—and to the world's attention—and she later covered the Milosevic war crime trials in The Hague in 2001 and 2002. For her reporting from the Balkans, Amanpour received an Emmy, two Peabody awards, two George Polk awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She was named 1994 Woman of the Year by the New York Chapter of Women in Cable and Telecommunications, and she helped CNN win an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for its coverage of Bosnia.
Amanpour has been awarded a number of other prizes, including an Emmy for her documentary "Struggle for Islam;" the 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award for Distinguished Achievement in Broadcast Journalism; the Sigma Chi Award (SDX) for her reports from Zaire; and two Polk awards for her coverage of Bosnia and her work on the CNN International special, "Battle for Afghanistan."
Her foreign reporting encompasses the dramatic changes in central Europe in 1989-90; the first Gulf War, from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 to the Kurdish refugee crisis on the Iran/Iraq border; the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991; and the U.S. peacekeeping operation in Somalia in late 1992.
Amanpour began her CNN career in 1983 as an assistant on the network's international assignment desk in Atlanta. Before joining CNN, Amanpour worked at WJAR-TV, Providence, R.I., as an electronic graphics designer. From 1981 to 1982, she worked as a reporter, anchor, and producer for WBRU Radio in Providence. Amanpour graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
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A former foreign correspondent for The Associated Press, Terry Anderson was held hostage for seven years by Shiite Hezbollah partisans attempting to drive the United States from Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war. He is the author of the bestseller Den of Lions, an account of his years as a hostage. In 1996 he returned to Lebanon to do a special report for CNN called Return to the Lion's Den.
Since his release in 1991, Anderson has worked as a journalist, run small businesses, taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, and run for Ohio's state senate. He wrote a syndicated column for King Features on government and politics, and is a well-known speaker around the United States.
Anderson was a combat correspondent with the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1970. He went on to graduate from Iowa State University with a degree in broadcast journalism in 1974. He then joined The Associated Press, serving in Asia and Africa before being assigned to Lebanon as the chief Middle East correspondent in 1983.
Anderson founded the Vietnam Children's Fund, which builds schools in Vietnam, and the Father Lawrence Jenco Foundation to support charity work in Appalachia. He has received numerous awards, both for journalism and community service, including the first Free Spirit Award from the Freedom Forum. He has settled in Athens, Ohio, where he is active in politics and charity.
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Dean Baquet returned to The New York Times as Washington bureau chief and assistant managing editor in March 2007.
He was managing editor and then editor of the Los Angeles Times from 2000 to 2006, a period in which the newspaper won numerous Pulitzer Prizes.
Baquet had served as national editor for The New York Times from 1995 to 2000. He previously served as deputy metropolitan editor. He joined The New York Times in 1990 as a metropolitan reporter, becoming special projects editor for the business desk in 1992.
Prior to joining The New York Times, Baquet reported for the Chicago Tribune from 1984 to 1990, and before that for the States-Item and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans for nearly seven years. While at the Chicago Tribune, Baquet served as associate metropolitan editor for investigations and was chief investigative reporter, covering corruption in politics and the garbage-hauling industry. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1988 when he led a team of three in documenting corruption in the Chicago City Council.
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran is national editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. He formerly ran the Post’s Continuous News Department, channeling breaking news to the paper’s online news site. In 2005, Chandrasekaran was the journalist in residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, as well as public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Chandrasekaran ran the Post’s bureau in Baghdad from 2003 to 2004, covering the American invasion of Iraq and the country’s occupation. He authored the best-selling book Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a chronicle of the American reconstruction effort in Iraq. His other foreign assignments include serving as Cairo bureau chief and Southeast Asia correspondent, and reporting on the war in Afghanistan.
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Sheila Coronel is director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and a professor of professional practice at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Coronel began her reporting career in 1982, when she joined the staff of Philippine Panorama, a widely read magazine in her native Philippines. As Ferdinand Marcos gradually lost political power, Coronel reported on human rights abuses, the growing democratic movement, and the election of Corazon Aquino as president. She later joined the staff of the Manila Times as a political reporter, and wrote special reports for The Manila Chronicle. As a stringer for The New York Times and The Guardian of London, she covered seven attempted coups against the Aquino government.
In 1989, Coronel and colleagues founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) to promote investigative reporting. The PCIJ trains journalists in investigative skills and provides an environment for in-depth, groundbreaking reporting. The center has investigated and reported on major social issues including the military, poverty, and corruption. Under Coronel’s leadership, the center became one of the premier investigative reporting institutions in the region.
Coronel is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Coups, Cults & Cannibals, a collection of reporting; The Rulemakers: How the wealthy and well-born dominate Congress; and Pork and other Perks: Corruption and Governance in the Philippines. She has received numerous awards and widespread recognition of her work.
She received an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of the Philippines, and a master’s degree in political sociology from the London School of Economics.
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Walter Cronkite became special correspondent for CBS News when he stepped down on March 6, 1981, after 19 years as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News.
Born in St. Joseph, Miss., Cronkite began his career in journalism as a campus correspondent at The Houston Post during high school and his freshman year at college. He also worked as a sports announcer for a local radio station in Oklahoma City and joined United Press International in 1937, where he remained for 11 years.
Cronkite covered World War II as a UPI correspondent, landing with the invading Allied troops in North Africa, covering the battle of the North Atlantic in 1942, taking part in the Normandy beachhead assaults in 1944, and participating as one of the first newsmen in B-17 raids over Germany. After reporting the German surrender, Cronkite established UPI bureaus in Europe, was named UPI bureau chief in Brussels and covered the Nuremberg trials of Goering, Hess, and other top Nazis. From 1946 to 1948, he was chief correspondent for UPI in Moscow.
Cronkite joined CBS News in Washington as a correspondent in July 1950 and anchored political convention and election coverage from 1952 to 1980. He assumed his duties on the "CBS Evening News," then a 15-minute broadcast, on April 16, 1962. On September 2, 1963, the broadcast debuted as network television's first half-hour, weeknight news broadcast with Cronkite's headline-making interview with President John F. Kennedy.
Following his departure from the "CBS Evening News," Cronkite hosted several acclaimed CBS documentary programs, including the Emmy-winning "Children of Apartheid" and the CBS News science magazine series "Walter Cronkite's Universe." In 1985, Cronkite was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
Cronkite was once voted among the top 10 "most influential decision-makers in America" in surveys conducted by U.S. News and World Report. In a nationwide viewer opinion survey conducted in 1995, he was voted the "Most Trusted Man in Television News."
An avid sailor, Cronkite recorded his experiences sailing waterways from the Chesapeake Bay to Key West in his book South by Southeast, with paintings by artist Ray Ellis accompanying his text. Other collaborations with Ellis led to North by Northeast, which covered his trips sailing the northeast coastal waterways, and Westwind, which recounted his sailing tour of America's West Coast. In 1996, Cronkite published his autobiography, A Reporter's Life.
Cronkite maintains an international lecture and public appearance schedule and hosts many public affairs and cultural programs. In 1993 he co-founded The Cronkite Ward Company, which has produced more than 60 award-winning documentary hours for The Discovery Channel, PBS, and other networks.
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Josh Friedman is director of international programs at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he has taught since 1992. He reported for Newsday from 1982 until 2001, his last position being United Nations bureau chief. In 1985, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of the famine in Ethiopia.
Friedman was editor-in-chief of the Soho Weekly News in New York from 1979 to 1981; a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1977 to 1979; and statehouse bureau chief for the New York Post from 1972 to 1977. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica from 1964 to 1966.
Friedman won the International Reporting Award from the National Association of Black Journalists (1985); the Blue Pencil Award from Columbia University's Daily Spectator (1980); the Keystone Press Award from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association (1979); the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for public service (1979); the Thomas L. Stokes Award from the Washington Journalism Center (1979); and the Edward J. Meeman conservation reporting award from the Scripps Howard Foundation (1979). He has a bachelor's degree in history from Rutgers University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
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Anne Garrels is a roving foreign correspondent for NPR's foreign desk. She earned international recognition in 2003 by being one of 16 U.S. journalists to remain in Baghdad during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Her vivid, around-the-clock reports from the city under siege gave listeners remarkable insight into the impact of the war on Baghdad and those left in the city.
As U.S. and British forces advanced on the city, Garrels remained at her post, describing the scene on the streets and reactions from those she encountered. Her experiences in Baghdad are chronicled in the 2003 book, Naked in Baghdad. For her work in Iraq, Garrels was awarded a 2003 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation.
Her reports can be heard on NPR's "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition," and "Weekend Edition."
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Garrels has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East. During her career with NPR, Garrels has reported on a wide range of international issues with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union. Garrels regularly spends time in the independent states that once made up the Soviet Union, covering diverse stories from social and economic challenges to military and cultural developments.
Garrels was part of the NPR team that won a prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in 1992 for coverage of the first Gulf War. In 1996, she won the duPont-Columbia Award for her coverage of the former Soviet Union. In 1999, the Overseas Press Club honored Garrels with the Whitman Bassow Award for a series on water issues around the globe. She was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1996.
Before joining NPR in 1988, Garrels was the State Department correspondent for NBC News. Garrels also worked at ABC News in a variety of positions, including Moscow bureau chief and correspondent until her expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1982.
Garrels graduated from Harvard University in 1972.
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James C. Goodale, a leading First Amendment and communications lawyer, served as chairman of the CPJ board from 1989 to 1994. During that time, CPJ expanded its work in seeking the release of imprisoned journalists worldwide, enlisted additional and influential board members, and increased its budget.
General counsel of The New York Times from 1967 to 1979, Goodale defended The Times before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1971 Pentagon papers case. He also represented The Times in the landmark reporter's privilege case, Branzburg v. Hayes, which went to the Supreme Court the following year. Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia, including 31 states with "shield laws," now recognize a privilege for reporters.
Goodale began his career as a Wall Street lawyer and worked on the 1964 watershed First Amendment case, Sullivan v. The New York Times. He helped direct The New York Times Co.'s move to become a diversified communications company, and he served as the newspaper's vice chairman from 1979 to 1980.
In 1980, Goodale joined the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton where he began two legal practice groups: corporate media and communications, and First Amendment and intellectual property litigation.
Much of Goodale's career has been devoted to creating and fostering a "First Amendment bar" to defend the press. At the Practicing Law Institute, he created and is chairman of one of the largest communications law seminars in the United States, providing education for lawyers in defense of the First Amendment. Goodale has taught First Amendment and communications law at Yale and New York University law schools, and he currently teaches at Fordham University School of Law. He has published more than 150 articles on the First Amendment and two books: The New York Times v. The U.S. and All About Cable, a reference edition for communication lawyers.
Goodale is producer and host of the television show, "Digital Age," a forum to discuss media, law, and politics that originates on the New York PBS station, WNYE. Guests have included Ben Bradlee, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., Robert MacNeil, Henry Kissinger, James Woolsey and Michael Bloomberg.
Columbia Journalism Review in 2001 named Goodale one of the 200 leaders who shape the national media agenda. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Goodale is a graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago Law School.
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Cheryl Gould was named senior vice president of NBC News in 2005 after serving as vice president of the news division since 1993. Gould also served as vice president of CNBC, concentrating on prime time and weekend program development. Gould was responsible for coordinating political and Afghan war coverage between NBC News and CNBC.
Gould served as acting executive producer of "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," the first woman in the industry to fill such a role, and was the broadcast's senior producer from 1985 to 1996.
Gould joined NBC News in 1977, serving as a field producer and radio reporter in the Paris bureau and later as a producer in the network's London bureau. In 1981, she moved to New York to become a producer on the weekend edition of "NBC Nightly News." She was a co-creator and senior producer of "NBC News Overnight," which won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. Gould also served as a producer on a wide variety of NBC News specials and projects including "D-Day Plus 40," a documentary commemorating the anniversary of the Normandy invasion, anchored by Tom Brokaw.
She won a 1989 Emmy Award for the "Nightly News" coverage of the Romanian revolution, has written articles in The New York Times and Newsweek, and has served on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation.
Gould began her broadcasting career as a radio reporter in Rochester, N.Y. Before joining NBC, she was an on-air reporter for WOKR-TV, the ABC affiliate in Rochester. Gould earned a bachelor's degree in history from Princeton University in 1974.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault rejoined National Public Radio as a special correspondent after six years as CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent. Hunter-Gault, NPR's chief correspondent in Africa in the late 1990s, also worked 20 years at PBS, where she served as a national correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." She began her journalism career as a reporter for The New Yorker; as news anchor for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and as Harlem bureau chief for The New York Times.
Her numerous honors include two Emmy awards and two Peabody awards—one for her work on "Apartheid's People," a "NewsHour" series about South African life during apartheid. Hunter-Gault won the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, the 1990 Sidney Hillman Award, and a 2004 National Association of Black Journalists Award for a CNN series on Zimbabwe. Amnesty International has honored Hunter-Gault for her human rights reporting. She holds more than two dozen honorary degrees, in addition to membership on numerous boards.
She is the author of In My Place, a memoir of the civil rights movement fashioned around her experiences as the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia.
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Gwen Ifill is moderator and managing editor of "Washington Week," the longest-running public affairs program on public television, and senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." She has also moderated national political debates, including the U.S. vice presidential debate in 2004.
Before joining PBS, Ifill served at NBC News for five years as chief congressional and political correspondent. While at NBC she covered national political stories for "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," "Today," and "Meet the Press."
Ifill worked for many years as a print journalist before becoming a fixture on broadcast news. She was a reporter at The New York Times, where she covered the White House and politics; The Washington Post, where her focus was national and local affairs; The Baltimore Evening Sun; and The Boston Herald American.
Ifill grew up in New York City and is a graduate of Simmons College in Boston. She serves on the board of the Harvard Institute of Politics and the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
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Jane Kramer is European correspondent for The New Yorker and writes the "Letter from Europe" for the magazine. She is the author of nine books, including The Politics of Memory, a collection of writings from Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Lone Patriot, the story of a militia leader and his followers. Her other books include The Last Cowboy and Europeans.
Kramer's books and journalism have earned her many awards, including an American Book Award, a National Magazine Award, a Front Page Award, and an Emmy Award. In 1993, she won the Prix Européen de l'Essai, Europe's prestigious award for non-fiction. Kramer has served on the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Institute for the Humanities, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a founding board member of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
She has taught at Princeton University and at the University of California at Berkeley. Kramer is a graduate of Vassar College and received a master's degree in English at Columbia University before starting her career in journalism.
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David Laventhol, CPJ board chairman from 2002 to 2005, has four decades of experience as an editor and publisher. Most recently, he served as publisher and editorial director of Columbia Journalism Review, from 1999 until 2003. Prior to his appointment at Columbia Journalism Review, he was editor-at-large for Times Mirror Co. from 1994 through 1998; president of Times Mirror 1987-93; and publisher and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Times 1989-93. As president of Times Mirror, Laventhol supervised the company's 20 operating units. As publisher of the Times, he directed the country's second largest metropolitan daily newspaper. Under his leadership, the Times won three Pulitzer Prizes, including a 1992 award for spot news for its coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Laventhol began his career in 1957 at the St. Petersburg Times, where he was a reporter and news editor. In 1963, he joined the New York Herald Tribune as city editor. Three years later he moved to The Washington Post, where he was assistant managing editor. While at the Post, he developed and launched the newspaper's Style section, which became a standard for the industry. Laventhol moved to Newsday in 1969 as associate editor, was named executive editor in late 1969 and then editor in 1970. In 1978, he became publisher and chief executive officer. At Newsday, Laventhol directed the planning and development of the Sunday edition of Newsday, which began publishing in 1972, and he supervised the development of New York Newsday, a new city edition developed in the mid-1980s. Under his leadership, Newsday won many major journalism awards, including the 1974 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Meritorious Public Service for its 30-part series, "The Heroin Trail." Published in 1973, the articles traced the flow of illegal narcotics from the poppy fields of Turkey to the towns of Long Island.
Laventhol is a member of the board of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the Century Association, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a past chairman of the Pulitzer Prize board, the International Press Institute, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and a former director of the United Negro College Fund, the National Parkinson's Foundation, and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Born in Philadelphia in 1933, Laventhol received his bachelor's degree in literature from Yale University in 1957, and a master's degree in English from the University of Minnesota in 1960.
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David Marash is a veteran broadcast journalist, working most recently as Washington anchor for Al-Jazeera English from 2006 to 2008. Previously, Marash reported for ABC News "Nightline" from 1989 to 2005. His award-winning reports on the wars in the former Yugoslavia, including stories that predicted the arrival of guerrilla fighting in the province of Kosovo, were highly acclaimed. He earned an Emmy Award in 1994 for his report on how the war in Serbia and Croatia was affecting children there. Marash also received Emmys for his "Nightline" coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing, his coverage of the explosion of TWA Flight 800, and a 1980 ABC News "20/20" report on the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Marash and "Nightline" producer Jay LaMonica's three-part series on AIDS in Zimbabwe received an Alfred I. duPont Award.
Marash reported extensively from Bosnia and Kosovo, and on Kosovar refugees in Albania and Macedonia. His report on a 13-year-old Kosovar girl injured by a booby-trap produced an outpouring of viewer contributions; the girl, Ibadete Thaqi, now walks with the use of prosthetic legs made at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
Marash filed numerous breaking news stories for "Nightline," including coverage of the eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat, the siege of Sarajevo, suicide bombings in Tel Aviv, Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, and the Rwandan genocide. He filed investigative reports on topics as diverse as the failure of the General Motors' minority dealership development program and the legal tactics of tobacco industry lawyers.
Before beginning work for "Nightline" in 1989, Marash spent more than a decade in local news in New York and Washington, D.C. From 1985 to 1989 he was a news anchor for WRC-TV, Washington. He was an investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York, and a contributing reporter for NBC Weekend News and NBC Sports from 1983 to 1985. He anchored the news for WCBS-TV in New York in 1981 and 1982, and earlier, from 1973 through 1978.
Marash has published articles in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Carnegie Foundation Reporter, Washington Monthly, The Washington Journalism Review, Ms Magazine and TV Guide.
He has won numerous broadcasting honors, including seven local Emmys, a New York Press Club Award, and an Overseas Press Club Award for his 1972 CBS Radio reports on the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympic Games. Marash graduated from Williams College in 1964.
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Born in Hungary, Kati Marton has combined a career as a reporter and writer with human rights advocacy. Former chairwoman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, she is chairwoman of the International Women's Health Coalition, a non-governmental organization that promotes and protects the rights and health of girls and women worldwide. From 2001 to 2002, Marton was chief advocate for the office of the special representative for children and armed conflict at the United Nations. She serves on the board of directors of the International Rescue Committee, Human Rights Watch, the New America Foundation, and the Central European University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, PEN International, and the Author's Guild.
Since 1980, Marton has published five books and contributed as a reporter to ABC News, Public Broadcasting Services, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Times of London, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Vanity Fair and The New Republic. Marton's fifth and most recent book, Hidden Power— Presidential Marriages that Shaped History, was published in September 2001 and was a New York Times bestseller.
From 1995 until 1997, Marton hosted NPR's "America and the World," a weekly half-hour broadcast on international affairs. From December 1977 until December 1979, Marton was Bonn bureau chief and foreign correspondent for ABC News. While based in West Germany, Marton reported from Poland, Hungary, Italy, Holland, Northern Ireland, East Germany, and the Middle East. Marton was a news writer/reporter at WCAU-TV, the CBS-owned-and-operated affiliate in Philadelphia from January 1973 until November 1977. From 1971 until 1973, Marton was a reporter for National Public Radio in Washington. In addition to diplomatic and political assignments, Marton was involved in the development of NPR's program, "All Things Considered."
Marton has received several honors for her reporting, including a George Foster Peabody Award for a one-hour documentary on China. She was a Gannett Fellow at Columbia University's School of Journalism in 1988 and she received a Philadelphia Press Association Award for Best Television Feature Story and a Channel 12 (PBS) Award for reporting. In 1997, she received the Marc H. Tannenbaum Foundation Award for the Advancement of Interreligious Understanding, and the Athens, Greece-based Kyriazis Foundation prize for the promotion of press freedom. In 2001, she was awarded the Rbekah Kohut Humanitarian Award by the National Council of Jewish Women.
Marton attended Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., the Sorbonne, and the Institute des Etudes de Science Politiques in Paris. She earned a bachelor's degree in romance languages and a master's degree in international relations from George Washington University.
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Michael Massing is the author of Now They Tell Us (2004), a collection of articles published in the New York Review of Books about press coverage of the war in Iraq. He is also author of The Fix, a critical study of the U.S. war on drugs that was named co-winner of the Washington Monthly's Political Book Award for 1998. In addition to The New York Review of Books, he has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, and Rolling Stone.
He is a former executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and remains a contributing editor at that publication. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Journalism and at the Columbia School for International and Public Affairs.
Massing is co-founder of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and a member of PEN America and the New York Institute for the Humanities. He has a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a master's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1989, Massing was awarded an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship; in 1992, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2005, he received the Mongerson Prize for Investigative Reporting on the News for his articles in the New York Review on the coverage of the Iraq war.
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Geraldine Fabrikant Metz is a senior writer for media and investing for the Business Day section of the New York Times. Before joining the Times in 1985, she had been an editor and reporter for Business Week, Variety; and The Hollywood Reporter.
Fabrikant Metz won the Loeb Award for deadline reporting in 1996. In 1999, she was named a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in economics and business journalism by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A New York native, Fabrikant attended Brandeis University and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1964.
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Victor Navasky has served as editor, publisher and now publisher emeritus of The Nation, which he joined in 1978. He is the George Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he directs the Delacorte Center of Magazine Journalism. He is chairman of Columbia Journalism Review.
Before joining The Nation, he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine and wrote a monthly column about the publishing business ("In Cold Print") for the Times Book Review. He is the author of Kennedy Justice (Atheneum, 1977) and Naming Names (Viking, 1980), which won a National Book Award and has been republished with a new afterword by Farrar Straus and Giroux (2003). With Christopher Cerf, he is co-author of The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation, a new version of which has been published in England under the title Wish I Hadn't Said That!
He was founding editor and publisher of Monocle, a "leisurely quarterly of political satire and social criticism" that appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s. With Richard R. Lingeman, Navasky is the co-author of "Starr's Last Tape" a one-act play performed at the Berkshire Theater Festival during the summer of 1999. His 2004 book, A Matter of Opinion, makes the case for the independent journal of opinion as an essential counterforce to the worst trends in mainstream journalism.
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Andres Oppenheimer is Latin American editor and foreign affairs columnist with The Miami Herald. His syndicated column, The Oppenheimer Report, appears twice a week in The Miami Herald and more than 40 U.S. and Latin American newspapers. He is a political analyst with CNN en Español, and hosts "Oppenheimer Presenta," a Spanish-language television show that airs in the United States, 19 Latin American countries, France, and Spain.
His jobs at The Miami Herald have included Mexico City bureau chief, foreign correspondent, and business writer. He worked for The Associated Press in New York, and contributed on a freelance basis to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, CBS News, and the BBC.
He is the co-winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize as a member of The Miami Herald team that uncovered the Iran-Contra scandal. He won the Inter American Press Association Award twice (1989 and 1994); the 1993 Ortega y Gasset Award; the 1998 Maria Moors Cabot Award of Columbia University; the 2001 King of Spain Award, given out by the Spanish news agency EFE and King Juan Carlos I of Spain; and an Overseas Press Club Award in 2002. The Ortega y Gasset and the King of Spain awards are the two most prestigious journalism awards in the Spanish-speaking world.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he attended the University of Buenos Aires' Law School, and moved to the United States in 1976 on a World Press Institute fellowship to study at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. In 1978, he obtained a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Oppenheimer's first book, Castro's Final Hour: An eyewitness account of the disintegration of Castro's Cuba, was described by The Dallas Morning News as "the definitive book on Cuba in the past decade." His three other books have drawn critical praise and generated commercial success, topping bestseller lists in Mexico, Argentina, and other Latin American countries.
Oppenheimer has been described as one of the most important journalists in the United States and one of the most powerful people in Latin America.
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Burl Osborne was president of the Publishing Division of A. H. Belo Corp. from 1995 to 2001, and has been the chairman of the A.H. Belo Corp. Foundation since 1998. He served as publisher and chief executive officer of The Dallas Morning News from 1991 to 2001, and has been publisher emeritus since 2002.
Osborne joined The Dallas Morning News as executive editor in 1980 following a 20-year career with The Associated Press. At the AP, he worked as a reporter and editor in West Virginia and Washington state before being named assistant chief of the AP's news bureau in Washington, D.C., in 1974. He served as managing editor of the AP from 1977 to 1980, based in New York City. He began his journalism career as a reporter for The Independent in Ashland, Ky., and as a reporter and editor for WHTN-TV in Huntington, W.Va.
During his tenure at Belo, Osborne has served as a member and co-chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; chairman of the Foundation for American Communications; chairman of the American Press Institute; president and chairman of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association; and chairman of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. He has also been on the board of the Newspaper Association of America and the World Association of Newspapers.
Osborne is the chairman of the board of The Associated Press, and serves on the advisory committee of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.
In 1992, Osborne received the National Press Foundation's George David Beveridge Jr. Award for Editor of the Year, and he was named the Pat Taggert Texas Newspaper Leader of the Year in 1993. He was named fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists in 1999.
Osborne, a Kentucky native, graduated from Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., with a degree in journalism. He earned a master's degree in business administration from Long Island University.
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Charles L. Overby is chairman, chief executive officer, and president of the Freedom Forum, an independent, nonpartisan foundation dedicated to First Amendment and media issues. Overby is also chairman and CEO of two affiliate organizations funded mainly by the Freedom Forum: the Newseum, the interactive museum of news, and the Diversity Institute at Vanderbilt University, which educates and trains people for jobs at daily newspapers.
Overby was named president and chief executive officer of the Gannett Foundation (later renamed the Freedom Forum) in 1989 and became its chairman in 1997. He is former editor of The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. Under his leadership, the newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for news and editorials on education reform in Mississippi. He worked for 16 years as reporter, editor, and corporate executive for Gannett Co., serving as vice president for news and communications for Gannett. As a reporter, he covered the White House, presidential campaigns, Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Overby serves on the board of the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, and is a member of the foundation board of the University of Mississippi, his alma mater. He has served two stints in government: as press assistant to Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and as special assistant for administration to Gov. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
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Clarence Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, has been a Chicago Tribune columnist and member of its editorial board since July 1984. His column is syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services to more than 180 newspapers. He is based in Washington, D.C.
Page has been a frequent panelist on "The McLaughlin Group," "Hardball with Chris Mathews," National Public Radio, and Black Entertainment Television. He is a regular contributor of essays to the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS and a frequent guest on national news programs on all of the major networks.
Page was a reporter and later assistant city editor at the Chicago Tribune from 1969 to 1980, when he joined WBBM-TV in Chicago as director of community affairs and later as an on-air reporter.
Honors include a 1989 award for commentary from the National Association of Black Journalists; a 1980 Illinois UPI award for community service for an investigative series titled "The Black Tax"; and the Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting for a 1976 series on the changing politics of Southern Africa. Page participated in a Chicago Tribune vote fraud investigation that won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for public service. He has received awards from the Illinois and Wisconsin chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union for his columns on civil liberties and constitutional rights.
Page serves on the boards of directors of the Herb Block Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. In 1992, he was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame. He is the author of Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity.
An Ohio native, Page received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ohio University in 1969.
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Norman Pearlstine became a senior advisor to the telecommunications and media team of The Carlyle Group in September 2006. Prior to joining the Carlyle Group, Pearlstine was a senior advisor to Time Warner, following 11 years as editor-in-chief of the company's Time Inc. subsidiary.
Prior to joining Time Inc., Pearlstine worked for The Wall Street Journal from 1968 to 1992, except for a two-year period, 1978-1980, when he was an executive editor of Forbes magazine. While at the Journal, he served as a staff reporter in Dallas, Detroit and Los Angeles (1968-1973); Tokyo bureau chief (1973-1976); managing editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal (1976-1978); national editor (1980-1981); editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal/Europe (1982-1983); managing editor (1983-1991); and executive editor (1991-1992). After resigning from the Journal in June 1992, Pearlstine spent a year launching Smart Money magazine for the Journal's parent, Dow Jones & Company, and for Hearst. He then became general partner of Friday Holdings L.P., a multimedia investment company, in April 1993 and held that position until joining Time Inc. in October 1994.
In 1989, Pearlstine received the National Press Foundation's Editor of the Year Award. He was honored with the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in 2000. The American Society of Magazine Editors named him the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted him into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in January 2005.
Pearlstine is president of the Atsuko Chiba Foundation, which provides scholarships to Asian journalists for study in the United States. He also serves on the boards of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California, the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program, and the Tribeca Film Institute. Pearlstine is on the advisory boards of the Neiman Foundation at Harvard and the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Pearlstine received his bachelor's degree from Haverford and an L.L.B. from the University of Pennsylvania
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Dan Rather hosts “Dan Rather Reports” on HDNet cable network. The show, which premiered in November 2006, features hard-edged field reports, in-depth interviews, and investigative stories. Rather was anchor of the "CBS Evening News" for 24 years before stepping down in March 2005. He was also a veteran correspondent for CBS News "60 Minutes."
The war on terrorism and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq have taken Rather to Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel in recent years. In April 2004, his exclusive "60 Minutes II" report revealing abuses at the U.S. military's Abu Ghraib prison drew worldwide attention and critical acclaim. In February 2003, Rather secured an exclusive one-on-one interview with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad—the first the Iraqi leader had conducted with a U.S. journalist since 1991. Rather also reported from Kabul on the U.S. effort to oust the Taliban and from Jerusalem and the West Bank during the largest Israeli military action in two decades.
Rather joined CBS News in 1962 as chief of its Southwest bureau in Dallas. From November 22, 1963, when he reported on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Rather has covered most of the world's major news stories, from Beijing and Bosnia to Haiti and Hong Kong. He reported on the civil rights movement in the South; the White House; the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf and Yugoslavia; and the quest for peace in South Africa and the Middle East.
He has received numerous Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and citations from scholarly, professional and charitable organizations. During his 42 years with CBS News, Rather has held many prestigious positions, ranging from co-editor of "60 Minutes" to CBS News bureau chief in London and Saigon, and White House correspondent during the Johnson and Nixon administrations. He anchored and reported for CBS News' "48 Hours" from its premiere in 1988, through September 2002. He has interviewed every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower and virtually every major international leader of the past 30 years.
Among his many assignments, Rather reported on the pope's visit to Cuba in January 1998; Hong Kong's turnover to Chinese rule in 1997; from the front lines in Bosnia in 1995; and from Jerusalem on the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He was the only U.S. anchor at Rabin's funeral. As a correspondent for "60 Minutes II," Rather secured an exclusive interview with President Bill Clinton, the president's first sit-down interview following his impeachment by the House. Rather was the first U.S. anchor on the scene in Belgrade in the middle of NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia, reporting for several CBS News broadcasts.
He recently published his seventh book, The American Dream, which chronicles the stories of a wide cross-section of Americans. He is also the author of Deadlines and Datelines (1999), The Camera Never Blinks (1977) and The Palace Guard (1974).
Rather began his career in journalism in 1950 as an Associated Press reporter in Huntsville, Texas. Later, he was a reporter for United Press International (1950-52), KSAM Radio in Huntsville (1950-53), KTRH Radio in Houston and the Houston Chronicle (1954-55). He became news director of KTRH in 1956 and a reporter for KTRK-TV Houston in 1959. Prior to joining CBS News, Rather was news director at KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston.
He was born in Wharton, Texas, and received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Sam Houston State Teachers College.
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Gene Roberts has taught at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland since 1991, following 18 years as the executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which won 17 Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership.
He took a hiatus from his university work from 1994 to 1997 to serve as managing editor of The New York Times. In 1998, he returned to the college, where he teaches courses on writing the complex story, the press and the civil rights movement, and newsroom management.
Roberts is a former chairman of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
He has served on the boards of the Pulitzer Prize, the World Press Freedom Committee, and the Center for Foreign Journalists. He has co-authored four books, including "Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspaper" and "The Censors and the Schools." He was editor-in-chief of the American Journalism Review's "State of the American Newspaper Project," published in 2000.
Roberts began his career as a farm reporter for The Goldsboro (N.C.) News-Argus. He later joined The New York Times where he led the paper's coverage of the 1960s civil rights movement in the South and served as chief war correspondent in Vietnam. Roberts received the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism in 1993.
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Sandra Mims Rowe is editor of The Oregonian in Portland, Ore., the largest newspaper in the Northwest. Under her leadership, the newspaper has won three Pulitzer Prizes: for explanatory reporting in 1999, for feature reporting in 2001, and the Pulitzer Gold Medal in Public Service in 2001.
She is chairwoman of the Knight Foundation Journalism Advisory Board. The Knight Foundation, with approximately $2 billion in assets, is one of the 30 largest philanthropic foundations in the United States.
The National Press Foundation named Rowe Editor of the Year in 2004.
She is a member of the Medill School of Journalism Board of Visitors at Northwestern University and chairs the Board of Visitors of The Knight Fellowships at Stanford University. She served on the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1994-2003 and was its chairman in 2002-03. She is past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
From 1984 to 1993, Rowe was the executive editor and vice president of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star in Virginia.
Rowe is a graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and completed the program for Management Development at Harvard University's Graduate School for Business.
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Diane Sawyer joined ABC News in 1989 as co-anchor of“Primetime Live” and was named co-anchor, with Charles Gibson, of“Good Morning America” in January 1999. As co-anchor, she has interviewed world leaders and celebrities and has won awards for her investigative journalism.
Sawyer has reported on stories ranging from biological weapons production in Russia to day care abuse to unsanitary conditions at the Food Lion chain of grocery stores. Sawyer’s international news coverage includes the coup attempt in Moscow in 1991, where she got an exclusive interview with Boris Yeltsin at the height of the crisis. She is also one of the few Western journalists to have reported from North Korea, where she uncovered new details of that country’s famine and official efforts to cover it up. In 2004, she received a George Polk Award for her reporting on conditions in Veterans Administration hospitals across the country.
Sawyer began her journalism career in 1967 at WLKY-TV in Louisville, Ky. She also served in the Nixon administration and on the transition team between Nixon and Gerald Ford in 1975. Prior to joining ABC News, Sawyer worked at CBS News as a political correspondent and in 1984 became the first woman to ever co-anchor the newsmagazine “60 Minutes.”
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Paul C. Tash, is editor, chairman, and CEO of the St. Petersburg Times. A native of South Bend, Ind., Tash graduated from Indiana University in 1976. He received a Marshall Scholarship and graduated with a bachelor of law degree from Edinburgh University in Scotland in 1978.
He started with the Times that fall as a local news reporter. He also has been a Tallahassee reporter, the city editor, metropolitan editor, Washington bureau chief and executive editor for the Times. From 1990-91, Tash was the editor and publisher of Florida Trend, a statewide business magazine owned by the Times Publishing Company.
He is active in First Amendment issues as chairman of the Florida First Amendment Foundation. He serves on the board of the Newspaper Association of America and the Michigan Journalism Fellows. He also has been a judge in various journalism contests, including the Pulitzer Prizes.
The St. Petersburg Times, Florida's largest daily newspaper, has won six Pulitzer Prizes.
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Mark Whitaker joined NBC as senior vice president of news in May 2007, after serving as vice president and editor-in-chief of new ventures in the digital division of The Washington Post Company since October 2006. Whitaker had been editor of Newsweek since November 1998.
In 2004, Whitaker was elected president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Praising Whitaker for "keeping the newsweekly fresh," Mediaweek magazine named Whitaker and Newsweek Worldwide Publisher Greg Osberg "Executive Team of the Year" in 2005. "One of Whitaker’s greatest achievements is the all-star roster of journalists he’s assembled," wrote Mediaweek. As editor, Whitaker redesigned the magazine to emphasize more in-depth reporting, diversified opinion columns and introduced new sections and series on personal service, health, technology, and business.
Previously, Whitaker served as managing editor. He supervised coverage of the 1996 presidential race and led the team that returned to Newsweek, after the magazine had already gone to press, to produce a special report on the death of Princess Diana.
Before becoming managing editor, Whitaker had been an assistant managing editor since 1991. During that period, he helped expand Newsweek’s technology coverage and edited newsstand-only issues on Michael Jordan, the Winter Olympics, the World Cup and the first Clinton inauguration. He wrote occasional essays on the issue of race, including one for a cover story with Ellis Cose on "The Hidden Rage of Successful Blacks," which was honored with awards from the Society of Professional Journalists’ New York Chapter and the National Association of Black Journalists.
Whitaker came to Newsweek in 1977 as a reporting intern in the San Francisco bureau, and later reported as a stringer and intern from Boston, Washington, London, and Paris. He joined the magazine full-time in 1981 in New York. Working in the International section over the next six years, he wrote cover stories on crises in Central America, the Falklands, the Mideast, the Soviet Union, and South Africa. He served as business editor from 1987 until 1991, directing coverage of the Black Monday stock-market crash, insider trading scandals and the savings-and-loan crisis.
He was raised in Norton, Mass. and graduated from Harvard in 1979. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and served on the editorial board of The Harvard Crimson. Whitaker went to Oxford University’s Balliol College for postgraduate studies as a Marshall Scholar.
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Brian Williams is the anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News,”a position he has held since 2004. His work covering Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath garnered numerous awards including an Emmy, a DuPont, four Edward R. Murrow Awards and a Peabody.
Williams has traveled extensively around the world to cover breaking news since joining NBC News in 1993. He is a veteran of political campaigns and elections and has reported numerous times from the Middle East, including several trips to Iraq to cover the war.
Beginning in 1996, he was anchor and managing editor of “The News with Brian Williams,” a nightly news program broadcast on MSNBC and CNBC. Before becoming anchor of the weekday broadcast, Williams was anchor and managing editor of the Saturday edition of “NBC Nightly News” for six years.
Williams’ start in broadcast journalism was at KOAM-TV in Pittsburg, Kan. in 1981. After serving as intern in the Carter administration, he worked for WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C. Before joining NBC, Williams was anchor and correspondent for CBS’ Television Stations Division in Philadelphia and New York for seven years.
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Matthew Winkler is editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, a global news service he founded with Michael Bloomberg in 1990 when he joined the then eight-year-old financial information company Bloomberg LP. Bloomberg News, which has grown to 2,200 editors and reporters in print and broadcast media in 130 bureaus throughout North and South America, covers the economy, companies, governments, financial, and commodity markets as well the arts, sports, politics and policy.
Winkler received the New York Financial Writers’ Association 2003 Elliott V. Bell Award for making a ``significant long-term contribution to the advancement of financial journalism.’’ During the past decade, Bloomberg News has received more than 250 awards for the quality of its journalism, including: the George Polk, Gerald Loeb, Overseas Press Club, Sidney Hillman, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Society of Professional Journalists (Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York chapters) and Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Winkler is co-author of Bloomberg by Bloomberg, published April 1997 by John Wiley & Son. Between 1991 and 1994 while editing Bloomberg News, he wrote the “Capital Markets” column for Forbes magazine. Between July 1980 and February 1990, Winkler was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and news services of its parent, Dow Jones & Co. At the Journal, he was responsible for credit markets, corporate finance, and the securities industry from 1987 to 1990 in New York. He served as European financial correspondent for The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Wall Street Journal in London from 1982 to 1987. Winkler was a New York-based reporter and assistant editor at The Bond Buyer (1978-1980); a public relations specialist for Gehrung Associates in Keene, N.H. (1977-1978); and a reporter for the Ohio-based Mount Vernon News (1976-1977).
Winkler was born in New York City in 1955 and is a graduate of Kenyon College with a bachelor’s degree in history. He is a trustee of Kenyon College and The Kenyon Review; chairman of the board of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program at Columbia University; a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia College of Columbia University; a trustee of the business journalism program of the City University of New York; a director of the International Center for Journalists, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York. He and his wife Lisa, an English teacher, have three children.
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Tom Brokaw stepped down as the anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News" on December 1, 2004, after 21 years on the broadcast. Brokaw continues to work with NBC News, reporting and producing documentaries and providing expertise during breaking news events.
In June 2004, Tom Brokaw traveled to Iraq to cover the handover of power, reporting for five days for all NBC News programs. He reported from Normandy, France, during the D-Day 60th anniversary ceremonies that same month. In February 2004, Brokaw went to the Asian subcontinent to report on the challenges Pakistan and Afghanistan face as they continue to fight the war on terror.
Brokaw secured the first exclusive U.S. one-on-one interview with Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev, earning an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. Brokaw was the only anchor to report from the scene the night the Berlin Wall fell, and was the first American anchor to travel to Tibet to report on human-rights abuses and to conduct an interview with the Dalai Lama.
In addition to "Nightly News," Brokaw reported a series of hour-long documentaries, "Tom Brokaw Reports." Tackling such diverse topics as literacy, affirmative action, drunken driving, corporate scandals, immigration policies, and education, his in-depth reporting earned critical praise. Brokaw has also reported documentaries of international importance, including "The Road to Baghdad" where he documented the path to war in Iraq through the eyes of half a dozen people at the center of the crisis; and "The Lost Boys," a story about how the ongoing war in Sudan forced the "lost boys" out of their villages in the 1980s, which won a National Press Club Award.
Brokaw's documentary reporting has been recognized with numerous awards, including a Peabody Award in 2004 for "Tom Brokaw Reports: A Question of Fairness" in which he examined the issue of affirmative action through the controversy surrounding the University of Michigan and its affirmative action policy. In 1989, Brokaw was awarded his first Peabody for "To Be An American," a documentary about American citizenship. In 2003, he won an Emmy for "America Remembers: 9/11 Air Traffic Controllers." In 1997, Brokaw won another Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for "Why Can't We Live Together," which examined racial separation in America's suburbs.
Brokaw has covered every presidential election since 1968 and was NBC's White House correspondent during the Watergate scandal. He has written articles, essays and commentary for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, Sports Illustrated, Life, National Geographic, Outside and Interview.
In 1998, Brokaw became a bestselling author with the publication of The Greatest Generation. His latest book, Boom! Voices of the Sixties, was released in November 2007.
Brokaw began his career in 1962 at KMTV in Omaha, Neb. He anchored the late evening news on Atlanta's WSB-TV in 1965 before joining KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. Hired by NBC News in 1966, he anchored "Today" from 1976 to 1981.
Brokaw joined CPJ’s board of directors in 1993 and became an advisory board member in November 2007.
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Steven L. Isenberg is visiting professor of humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching courses in 20th century literature, literary journalism, and Watergate in the liberal arts honors program. He worked for 14 years in newspapers, all with the Times Mirror Co. He was publisher of the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time, deputy publisher of Newsday, the executive vice president of marketing for the Los Angeles Times, and the publisher of New York Newsday.
Prior to working in newspapers, Isenberg had been chief of staff to New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay and a litigator at the firm of Breed, Abbott and Morgan. After his newspaper work, he served as president of the executive advisory board of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley and later as chairman of the board of trustees and interim president of Adelphi University. He taught at Yale, Davidson, the New School, Polytechnic University in Brooklyn and the University of California at Berkeley. He was also a Reuters fellow at Oxford.
Isenberg was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. Isenberg joined CPJ’s board of directors in 2003 and became an advisory board member in February 2008.
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Anthony Lewis was a columnist for The New York Times from 1969 through 2001. He has won the Pulitzer Prize twice. In 2001, he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal.
A New York City native, he earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1948 before joining The Times' Sunday desk. In 1952, he became a reporter for The Washington Daily News, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series on the questionable dismissal of a Naval employee as a security risk. The articles led to the employee's reinstatement.
Lewis joined the Washington bureau of The New York Times in 1955. In 1956-57 he was a Neiman Fellow; spending the academic year studying at Harvard Law School. On his return to Washington, he covered the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and other legal matters, including the government's handling of the civil rights movement, for the Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Supreme Court in 1963.
He became the chief of The Times' London bureau in 1964, and began writing his column from there in 1969. Since 1973 he has been located in Boston. He travels frequently, in this country and abroad.
He is the author of four books: Gideon's Trumpet, about a landmark Supreme Court case; Portrait of a Decade, about the great changes in American race relations; Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment; and his most recent book, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment.
Lewis was a lecturer at the Harvard Law School for 15 years, teaching a course on the Constitution and the press. He has taught at a number of other universities as a visiting professor, among them the universities of California, Illinois, Oregon, and Arizona. Since 1983, he has held the James Madison Visiting Professorship at Columbia University.
Lewis, one of the founding board members of CPJ, has served the organization since its inception in 1981. In February 2008, Lewis joined CPJ’s advisory board.
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Erwin Potts is a native of North Carolina and received a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina in 1954. He began his career as a reporter in his hometown of Charlotte, N.C. He moved on to managerial positions with Knight-Ridder Newspapers, including city editor and assistant managing editor at The Miami Herald, general manager of the Tallahassee Democrat, and vice president and general manager of The Charlotte Observer and The Charlotte News.
Potts joined McClatchy Co. as director of newspaper operations in 1975. He became a vice president in 1979, executive vice president in 1985, president in 1987, chief executive officer in 1989, and chairman in 1995. With the unexpected death of C.K. McClatchy in 1989, Potts became the first non-family member to head the McClatchy Co., which was founded in 1857 by James McClatchy.
Potts has served on the Newspaper Association Board of Directors, Stanford University's John S. Knight Fellowship Board of Visitors, and the Sacramento Regional Foundation Board. Potts joined CPJ’s board of directors in 1997 and became a member of its advisory board in November 2007.
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John Seigenthaler founded the First Amendment Center in 1991 with the mission of creating national discussion, dialogue, and debate about First Amendment rights and values.
A former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Seigenthaler served for 43 years as an award-winning journalist for The Tennessean, Nashville's morning newspaper. At his retirement he was editor, publisher and CEO. He retains the title chairman emeritus. In 1982, Seigenthaler became founding editorial director of USA Today and served in that position for a decade, retiring from both the Nashville and national newspapers in 1991.
Seigenthaler left journalism briefly in the early 1960s to serve in the U.S. Justice Department as administrative assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. His work in the field of civil rights led to his service as chief negotiator with the governor of Alabama during the Freedom Rides. During that crisis, while attempting to aid Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Ala., he was attacked by a mob of Klansmen.
Seigenthaler hosts a weekly book-review program, "A Word On Words," on Nashville Public Television. He is a senior advisory trustee of the Freedom Forum. He chairs the annual "Profile in Courage Award" selection committee of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and co-chairs with Arthur Schlesinger Jr. the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for the RFK Memorial.
Seigenthaler served on the 18-member National Commission on Federal Election Reform organized in 2001 by former Presidents Carter and Ford. He is a member of the Constitution Project on Liberty and Security, created after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
In 2002, the trustees of Vanderbilt University created the John Seigenthaler Center, naming the building at 18th Avenue South and Edgehill Avenue that houses the offices of the Freedom Forum, the First Amendment Center, and the Diversity Institute. The John Seigenthaler Center encompasses 57,000 square feet and includes a three-story expansion that was funded by the Freedom Forum and donated to Vanderbilt.
Seigenthaler is the author of the biography, James K. Polk, published in 2004.
He joined CPJ’s board of directors in 1982 and became a member of its advisory board in November 2007.
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