James Warren, president and publisher, Chicago Reader (chair)
Cory Lancaster, managing editor, The Daytona Beach News-Journal
David McCumber, editor, Advocate and Greenwich Time, Stamford, Conn.
Carole Carmichael, assistant managing editor, features, Seattle Times
Rick Doyle, editor, Walla Walla (WA) Union-Bulletin
Denise Costa, features editor, The Bulletin, Bend, OR
Michael Shapiro, professor, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY