Bradlee, Benjamin, Executive Editor, The Washington Post

Caroll, Wallace, Editor and Publisher, Winston (N.C.) Journal

Cowles, John, Jr., Editorial Chairman, The Minneapolis Star & Tribune

Day, Price, editor-in-chief, The Baltimore Sun

Dickinson, William B., executive editor, The Philadelphia Bulletin

Donovan, Robert J., associate editor, Los Angeles Times

Hills, Lee, president and executive editor, Knight Newspapers, Inc.

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

McGill, William J., president, Columbia University, New York, NY

Meyer, Sylvan, editor, The Miami News

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

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

Reston, James, vice president, The New York Times

Royster, Vermont C., contributing editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY