Cynthia Tucker is editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal- Constitution and a syndicated columnist whose commentary appears in newspapers across the country. She is also a frequent commentator on television news shows. As editorial page editor, Tucker is responsible for guiding the development of the newspaper's opinion on everything from foreign policy to local school board races.

A native of Monroeville, AL, she is a graduate of Auburn University. She joined The Atlanta Journal as a reporter in 1976, left to work as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and returned as an editorial writer and columnist for the Atlanta newspaper. After a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 1988-89, she was named editorial page editor of The Atlanta Constitution in 1992.

Last year, Tucker was honored with NABJ's Journalist of the Year award. She was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. In 2000, she won the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award, also for commentary. Tucker is a four-time Cox Newspapers award winner in column-writing.