E-mail this pagePulitzer Prize Board 1997–1998
The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 1998 winners and finalists. --Geneva Overholser, chair; Seymour Topping, administrator.
Barnes, Andrew, editor, president and C.E.O., St. Petersburg Times
Boccardi, Louis D., president and chief executive officer, Associated Press
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
Gates Jr., Henry Louis, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Goldstein, Tom, dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
Ketter, William, vice president and assistant to the publisher, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA
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.
Steiger, Paul, managing editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
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
