Pulitzer Prize Board 1983–1984

front row: H. Gray, J. Pulitzer, M. Sovern. W. Raspberry, T. Winship, E. Patterson, E. Roberts
back row: O. Elliott, R. Leonard, C. Saikowski, J. Hoge, W. Phillips, C.K. McClatchy, H. Hays, D. Laventhol. M. Gartner, R. Wilkins, R. Christopher

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The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 1984 winners and finalists. --Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., chair; Robert Christopher, secretary.


Christopher, Robert C., secretary of the Board, The Pulitzer Prizes

Elliott, Osborn, dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University

Gartner, Michael , president and editorial chairman, The Des Moines Register and Tribune

Gray, Hanna H., president, University of Chicago

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

Hoge, James F., Jr., publisher, New York Daily News

Laventhol, David A., publisher and chief executive officer, Newsday, and group vice president, Times Mirror Company

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

McClatchy, C.K., editor and president, McClatchy Newspapers, Sacramento, Calif.

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

Phillips, Warren H., chairman and chief executive officer, Dow Jones & Co., New York, NY

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

Raspberry, William J., columnist, The Washington Post

Roberts, Eugene L., Jr., executive editor and senior vice president, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Saikowski, Charlotte, chief, Washington bureau, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Mass.

Sovern, Michael I., president, Columbia University, New York, NY

Wilkins, Roger W., senior fellow, Joint Center for Political Studies, Washington, DC

Winship, Thomas, editor, The Boston Globe