Pulitzer Prize Board 2008–2009

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front row: A. Gyllenhaal, J. Dehli, T. Friedman, R. Oppel, A.M. Lipinski, S. Gissler, K.A. Willey, A. Bennett
back row: K. Carroll, D. Allen, P. Gigot, G. Moore, P. Tash, D. Kennedy, R. Beck, J. Amoss

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The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 2009 winners and finalists. --Richard Oppel, chair; 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

Beck, Randell, president and publisher, Argus Leader Media, Sioux Falls, SD

Bennett, Amanda, executive editor/Enterprise, Bloomberg News

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

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

Dehli, Joyce, vice president for news, Lee Enterprises

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

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, vice president for civic engagement, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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

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

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

Willey, Keven Ann, vice president/editorial page editor, The Dallas Morning News