Abel, Elie, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University

Bradlee, Benjamin, Executive Editor, The Washington Post

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

Hays, Howard H., Jr., editor and publisher, Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise

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

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

Hughes, John, editor, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA

Kirkpatrick, Clayton, editor and vice president, Chicago Tribune

Leonard, Richard H., editor and vice president, The Milwaukee Journal

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

Patterson, Eugene C., editor and president, St. Petersburg Times

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

Winship, Thomas, editor, The Boston Globe