Katherine Boo, investigative journalist, and Gail Collins, Op-Ed columnist, join Pulitzer Prize Board
Katherine Boo and Gail Collins named to Pulitzer Prize Board.
front row, left to right: J. Diaz, T. Friedman, G. Moore, S. Gissler, D. Allen, J. Dehli; back row, left to right: L. Bollinger, A. Marques, S. Coll, R. Blau, P. Tash, K. Willey, R. Beck, P. Gigot, E. Robinson, S. Engelberg, S. Hahn (absent: N. Lemann, Q. Hudes)
Katherine Boo and Gail Collins named to Pulitzer Prize Board.
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.
Gregory L. Moore has been editor of The Denver Post since June 2002. Prior to that, he was managing editor of the Boston Globe.
John Daniszewski, Associated Press news executive and foreign affairs specialist, named to Pulitzer Prize Board
Daniszewski played a central role in AP’s opening of the first Western news and photo bureau in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 2012, and the Yangon, Myanmar, bureau earlier in 2013 -- the first return to that country by a Western news agency after decades of strict military rule. He was part of a team that won an Overseas Press Club award in 2007 and that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist that year for coverage of Iraq’s descent into civil war.
Paul Tash, CEO of Tampa Bay Times, elected chair of Pulitzer Prize Board
An honors graduate of Indiana and Edinburgh Universities, Tash started with the St. Petersburg [Tampa Bay] Times in the fall of 1978 as a reporter covering local news. He went on to cover state government in Tallahassee and served as city editor, metropolitan editor, Washington bureau chief and, ultimately, editor of the Times.