Pulitzer Prize Board 2005–2006

Front row: K. Carroll, H. Gates, J. Byrd, A. Bennett, S. Gissler
Middle row: T. Friedman, N. Lemann, A. Lipinski, J. Harris, L. Bollinger, R. Oppel, M. Pride
Back row: A. Gyllenhaal, G. Moore, D. Graham, P. Steiger, P. Tash, D. Kennedy, J. Amoss --(photo credit: Eileen Barroso)

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The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 2006 winners and finalists. --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair; Sig Gissler, administrator.


Amoss, Jim, editor, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA

Bennett, Amanda, editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Bollinger, Lee C., president, Columbia University, New York, NY

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

Carroll, Kathleen, executive editor and senior vice president, Associated Press

Friedman, Thomas L., columnist, The New York Times, New York, NY

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

Gissler, Sig, administrator, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY

Graham, Donald E., chairman, The Washington Post

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

Harris, Jay T., Wallis Annenberg Chair, Director, Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

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

Lemann, Nicholas, dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY

Lipinski, Ann Marie, senior vice president and editor, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL

Moore, Gregory L., editor, The Denver Post, Denver, CO

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

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

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

Tash, Paul C., editor, chairman and CEO, The St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL