Front row: D. Graham, W. Safire, S. Rowe, S. Gissler, J. Carroll, L. Boccardi Back row: M. Pride, A. Barnes, R. Pederson, P. Steiger, H.Gates, J. Harris, J. Byrd, D. Kennedy, A. Bennett, A. Gyllenhaal, R. Oppel, L. Bollinger --(photo credit: Joe Pineiro)
Joann Byrd retired June 2, 2003, after six years as the editorial page editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
From June 1992 to June 1995, she was ombudsman at The Washington Post, and had been executive editor of The Herald, Everett, WA, for 12 years.
Jay T. Harris, the former publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, is director of The Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California.