front row, left to right: M. Sullivan, N. Lemann, J. Amoss, S. Gissler, A. Lipinski, R. Beck. K. Carroll; back row, left to right: T. Friedman, J. Diaz, R. Blau, G. Moore, P. Gigot, D. Allen, P. Tash, S. Hahn, E. Robinson, K. Willey, J. Dehli and J. VandeHei.
Following an introduction by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the 'Life on Mars' author and 2012 Poetry Prize winner reads her works and tells stories about how the poems came to be in Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
Stephen Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica, named to Pulitzer Prize Board
During his time as managing editor, ProPublica became the first online news organization to win Pulitzer Prizes. In 2010, it won the Investigative Reporting prize for chronicling the life-and-death decisions by a hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were isolated by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. A year later, it won the National Reporting prize for exposing Wall Street practices that contributed to the nation’s economic meltdown.
Gregory Moore and Thomas Friedman elected co-chairs of Pulitzer Prize Board
Both have served on the board since 2004. They replace co-chairs Jim Amoss, editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans; Kathleen Carroll, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press; and Ann Marie Lipinski, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Board members serve a maximum of nine years while a chair serves for only one year. The new co-chairs will share responsibilities over the course of the year.
Journalist, playwright and regional newspaper editor named to Pulitzer Prize Board
They are Steve Coll, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper correspondent and nonfiction author, who is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine; Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama; and Aminda (Mindy) Marqués Gonzalez, vice president and executive editor of The Miami Herald, which has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes in its history and was twice a Pulitzer finalist in recent years.
