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Michael Gartner

Job title
editor, The Daily Tribune, Ames, Iowa
First name
Michael
Last name
Gartner
Years
Employer
and president, NBC News
Ordering weight
0 (Chair)

Robert C. Christopher

Job title
administrator
First name
Robert C.
Last name
Christopher
Location
Columbia University
Years

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
Robert C. Christopher
Ordering weight
1

Marilyn Yarbrough

Job title
William J. Maier, Jr. Chair of Law
First name
Marilyn
Last name
Yarbrough
Years
Employer
West Virginia University
Ordering weight
1

Robert C. Maynard

Job title
editor and publisher
First name
Robert C.
Last name
Maynard
Location
Oakland, Calif.

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Robert C. Maynard, 56, Publisher Who Helped Minority Journalists

By Bruce Lambert

August 19, 1993

Robert C. Maynard, a trailblazer for minority journalists who was the first black editor and owner of a major daily newspaper in the United States, died at his home in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday. He was 56.

He died of prostate cancer, a family spokesman said.

Employer
The Tribune
Ordering weight
1

Peter R. Kann

Job title
chairman and publisher
First name
Peter R.
Last name
Kann
Years

Peter R. Kann is the former chairman of Dow Jones & Company and editorial director of Dow Jones’ publications.

In 1967, Mr. Kann became The Journal’s first resident reporter in Vietnam. From 1969 through 1975, he continued to cover the Vietnam War, as well as other events across Asia, as a roving reporter based in Hong Kong. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for distinguished reporting on international affairs for his coverage of the 1971 India-Pakistan War.

Employer
Dow Jones & Co., Inc.
Ordering weight
1