Anders Gyllenhaal was named executive editor of the Miami Herald in 2007. From 2002 to 2007, Gyllenhaal (pronounced JILL-in-hall), was editor and senior vice president at the Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul. Previously, he was executive editor and senior vice president of the News & Observer in Raleigh, NC. He joined the News & Observer in 1991 and worked as metro editor and managing editor before becoming editor in 1997.

Donald E. Graham became chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company in 1991 and chairman of the board in 1993. Publisher of the The Washington Post newspaper since 1979, Graham is a trustee of the Federal City Council in Washington, D.C., chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program, and a member of the board of directors of The Summit Fund of Washington.

Thomas L. Friedman, a native of Minneapolis, graduated summa cum laude in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean Studies from Brandeis University. On a Marshall Scholarship, he studied at Oxford University's St. Antony's College and later earned a master's degree in Middle East studies from Oxford in 1978.

After a year as a general assignment reporter in the London bureau of United Press International (UPI), Friedman was transferred to UPI's Beirut bureau as a correspondent from 1979-1981.

Kathleen Carroll has served as executive editor for the AP since 2002 and as senior vice president since Sept. 2003.

Before joining the news organization some 25 years ago, she studied journalism at the University of Texas at Arlington and worked as a reporter for the Dallas Morning News.

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.

Named the National Press Foundation's 1997 Editor of the Year and Editor and Publisher's 2005 Editor of the Year, Jim Amoss has been editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans since July 1990. Previously, he had been associate editor of The Times-Picayune since 1988. Under his leadership, the paper won the 1997 Pulitzer Prizes in both public service and editorial cartooning. These were the paper's first Pulitzers since its inception in 1837. The paper also won the 2006 Pulitzer Prizes in public service and breaking news.

Lee C. Bollinger is a renowned legal scholar, with an expertise in free speech and the First Amendment. He is an alumnus of Columbia's Law School, where he is also a professor. He became president of Columbia University on June 1, 2002.