Alix Freedman*, deputy managing editor, The Wall Street Journal (chair)
Carole Tarrant, editor, The Roanoke (VA) Times
John Drescher, executive editor, News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.
Jonathan Landman, culture editor, The New York Times
Libby Averyt, vice president of advertising and former editor and online general manager, Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Peggy Bellows, managing editor, Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch
Stephen Engelberg, managing editor, ProPublica, New York, N.Y.
* past Pulitzer Prize winner