Pulitzer Prize Board 2007–2008

Front row: T. Friedman, J. Byrd, M. Pride, S. Gissler, D. Allen, R. Oppel, A. Bennett
Back row: J. Amoss, K. Carroll, P. Gigot, P. Tash, D. Graham, A. Lipinski, A. Gyllenhaal, D. Kennedy, G. Moore

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The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 2008 winners and finalists. --Joann Byrd and Mike Pride, co-chairs; Sig Gissler, administrator.


Allen, Danielle, UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

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

Bennett, Amanda, executive editor/Enterprise, Bloomberg News

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

Gigot, Paul, editorial page editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY

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

Graham, Donald E., chairman, The Washington Post

Gyllenhaal, Anders, executive editor, The Miami Herald, Miami, FL

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

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