Board lander photo
Board lander photo caption
starting left going back around table: O. Elliott, E. Roberts, M. Gartner, H. Hays, R. Leonard, M. Sovern, J. Pulitzer, W. Raspberry, R. Christopher, C. Sitton, C. Saikowski, R. Baker (absent from photo: H. Gray, J. Hoge, D. Laventhol, C.K. McClatchy, W. Phillips, R. Wilkins) Credit: Joe Pineiro/Columbia University
Board Lander Sub Title
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., chair; Robert Christopher, secretary.
Roger W. Wilkins
Job title
senior fellow
First name
Roger W.
Last name
Wilkins
(Courtesy of George Mason University)
Roger Wilkins
Robinson Professor of History and American Culture, George Mason University
L.L.B, 1956, University of Michigan
B.A, 1953, University of Michigan
Employer
Institute for Policy Studies
Ordering weight
1
Claude F. Sitton
Job title
editorial director and vice president
First name
Claude F.
Last name
Sitton
(Courtesy of The New York Times)
Claude Sitton, 89, Acclaimed Civil Rights Reporter, Dies
By Dennis Hevesi
March 10, 2015
Claude Sitton, a son of the South whose unwavering coverage of the civil rights movement for The New York Times through most of that tumultuous era was hailed as a benchmark of 20th-century journalism, died on Tuesday in Atlanta. He was 89.
The cause was congestive heart failure, his son Clint said. Mr. Sitton had been in a hospice.
Employer
The News and Observer and The Raleigh (N.C.) Times
Ordering weight
1
Eugene L. Roberts
Job title
executive editor
First name
Eugene L.
Last name
Roberts
(Courtesty of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book)
Gene Roberts, a former executive editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, achieved national fame for leading the paper to 17 Pulitzer Prizes in an 18-year span. He was widely respected for his high standards in journalism and ability to run a newspaper. A former reporter of his once said, “He’s the ideal editor that a reporter dreams about.”
Employer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Ordering weight
1
Richard H. Leonard
Job title
associate editor and senior vice president
First name
Richard H.
Last name
Leonard
Years
(Courtesy of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Longtime Journal editor Dick Leonard dies at 92
By Meg Jones
May 18, 2014
Richard H. Leonard always knew he wanted to be a newspaperman — correction, make that editor — ever since he worked on his fifth-grade newspaper back in Ridgewood, N.J.
And he did just that.
In 1967, Leonard was named the sixth editor of The Milwaukee Journal. He served longer than any other editor in the history of the newspaper, with the exception of Lucius W. Nieman, who founded it in 1882.
Employer
The Milwaukee Journal
Ordering weight
1
David A. Laventhol
Job title
senior vice president
First name
David A.
Last name
Laventhol
Years
Employer
Times Mirror Company
Ordering weight
1
Michael Gartner
Job title
general news executive
First name
Michael
Last name
Gartner
Years
Employer
Gannett Company
Ordering weight
1
Robert C. Christopher
Job title
secretary of the Board
First name
Robert C.
Last name
Christopher
Author Robert C. Christopher, Editor At Time, Newsweek
Chicago Tribune, June 15, 1992
By Kenan Heise
Robert C. Christopher, 68, an author and former editor at Time and Newsweek magazines, had been secretary of the Pulitzer Prize Board and administrator of Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University since 1981. A resident of Old Lyme, Conn., he died of emphysema Sunday in Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, New London, Conn.
Employer
The Pulitzer Prizes
Photo
Ordering weight
1
Charlotte Saikowski
Job title
chief, Washington bureau
First name
Charlotte
Last name
Saikowski
Location
Boston, Mass.
(Courtesy of The Washington Post)
Charlotte Saikowski, 73
April 14, 2000
Charlotte Saikowski, 73, the Washington bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor from 1983 until she retired in 1990, died of a heart ailment April 8 at Lynn House, a Christian Science nursing home in Alexandria. She lived in Washington.
Ms. Saikowski joined the Monitor in 1962 and came to its Washington bureau a decade later. She had previous assignments as bureau chief in Tokyo and Moscow and as chief editorial writer.
Employer
The Christian Science Monitor
Ordering weight
1
C.K. McClatchy
Job title
editor and president
First name
C.K.
Last name
McClatchy
Location
Sacramento, Calif.
(Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times)
C.K. McClatchy, 62; Head of Chain of Newspapers
By Edward J. Boyer
April 17, 1989
C.K. McClatchy, chairman of the McClatchy chain of newspapers in California, Washington state and Alaska, died Sunday after collapsing while jogging in Sacramento.
A soft-spoken man known for his abiding independence, McClatchy, 62, was jogging in William Land Park, near a school bearing his family's name, when he apparently suffered a heart attack, said McClatchy Newspapers President Erwin Potts.
Employer
McClatchy Newspapers
Ordering weight
1