Bingham, Barry Sr., Editor-in-Chief and President, Louisville Courier-Journal

Brown, Sevellon, editor, The Providence Journal

Canham, Erwin D., Editor, Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA

Catledge, Turner, Managing Editor, The New York Times

Chandler, Norman, President and Publisher, Los Angeles Times

Hohenberg, John, executive secretary, The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University

Kirk, Grayson, president, Columbia University, New York, NY

MacDonald, Kenneth, vice president and editor, Des Moines Register and Tribune

Maxwell, W.D., vice president and editor, Chicago Tribune

McGill, Ralph, publisher, The Atlanta Constitution

Miller, Paul, president/chairman of the board, Gannett Newspapers, Inc., Rochester, NY

Noyes, Newbold, Jr., editor, The Evening Star, Washington, DC

Pulitzer, Joseph Jr. (III), editor and publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Seltzer, Louis B., editor, Cleveland Press