Pulitzer Prize Board 2001–2002

Front row: M. Pride, R. Pederson, H. Gates, J. Byrd, L. Boccardi
Back row: T. Goldstein, G. Rupp, P. Steiger, S. Rowe, A. Barnes, W. Safire, J. Harris, R. Oppel, J. Carroll, S. Topping, D. Graham, A. Gyllenhaal --(photo credit: Joe Pineiro)

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The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 2002 winners and finalists. --John S. Carroll, chair; Seymour Topping, administrator.


Barnes, Andrew, chairman and chief executive officer, St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL

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

Byrd, Joann, editorial page editor, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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

Gates Jr., Henry Louis, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Goldstein, Tom, dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University

Graham, Donald E., chairman, The Washington Post Company

Gyllenhaal, Anders, editor and senior vice president, Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

Harris, Jay T., former publisher, San Jose Mercury News

Kennedy, David M., Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Oppel, Richard, editor, Austin American-Statesman, Austin, TX

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

Pride, Mike, editor, Concord Monitor, Concord, NH

Rowe, Sandra Mims, editor, The Oregonian

Rupp, George, president, Columbia University

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

Steiger, Paul, managing editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY

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