Rick Rodriguez, executive editor, The Sacramento Bee (chair)
David Boardman, assistant managing editor, The Seattle Times
Rebecca Corbett, assistant managing editor/projects, The Baltimore Sun
Robert H. Giles, executive director, Media Studies Center; senior vice president, The Freedom Forum
David R. Jones, former assistant managing editor, The New York Times
Shawn McIntosh, managing editor, The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS
Gene Miller*, associate editor/ reporting, The Miami Herald, FL
* past Pulitzer Prize winner