Seaton, Edward

Edward Seaton began his career in journalism as a general assignment reporter and copy editor at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. An honors graduate of Harvard College, he studied on a Fulbright grant in Ecuador and did graduate work in journalism at the University of Missouri. He was made a Knight of the Order of Christopher Columbus by the Dominican Republic for his work for press freedom, and is a recipient of Columbia's Maria Moors Cabot Prize.

Past president of both the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Inter American Press Association, Seaton is president of the ASNE Foundation and serves on IAPA's executive committee. He is a member of the board of the International Center for Journalists, the advisory committee of the Knight International Press Fellowship Program and Columbia's Cabot Awards Board.

Seaton was elected to the board in 1992.