Pulitzer Prize Board 1995–1996

The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 1996 winners and finalists --Peter R. Kann, chair, Seymour Topping, administrator.


Boccardi, Louis D., president and chief executive officer, Associated Press

Bok, Sissela, writer and philosopher

Carroll, John S., editor and executive vice president, Los Angeles Times

Dotson Jr., John L., president and publisher, Akron Beacon Journal

Fuller, Jack, president, Tribune Publishing Company

Kann, Peter R., chairman and chief executive officer, Dow Jones and Co., Inc.

Ketter, William, vice president and assistant to the publisher, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA

Konner, Joan, dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY

Overholser, Geneva, ombudsman, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.

Pederson, Rena, editorial page editor/vice president, The Dallas Morning News

Risser, James V., director, John S. Knight Fellowships, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Rowe, Sandra Mims, editor, The Oregonian

Rugaber, Walter, president and publisher, The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, VA

Rupp, George, president, Columbia University

Safire, William, columnist, The New York Times, New York, NY

Seaton, Edward, editor in chief, Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kan.

Topping, Seymour, administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University, New York, NY

Vendler, Helen, Porter University Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Yarbrough, Marilyn, professor of law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC