front row left to right: J. Diaz, R. Blau, K. Willey, P. Gigot, M. Pride, J. Dehli, G. Collins; back row left to right: N. Brown, K. Boo, J. Daniszewski, R. Beck, E. Robinson, S. Engelberg, A. Marqués, T. Shelby, S. Hahn, S. Coll (absent: L. Bollinger)
Pulitzer gathering revisits 'the story that doesn't end' by David Moats of the Rutland Herald
Livestream at 10:30 January 29: Pulitzer Prize board hosts panel discussion at The Washington Post
The Pulitzer Prize board hosts the first event of their year-long centennial celebration with a panel discussion on the American presidency.
Tommie Shelby is an Africana studies scholar whose writings focus on racial and economic justice and on the history of black political thought. He is the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard.
Neil Brown oversees the journalism published in the Tampa Bay Times, the largest circulation daily in the Southeast, as well as on the websites tampabay.com and PolitiFact.com, in the daily tabloid tbt*, and in Bay, a bimonthly magazine on fashion and real estate.
A native of Chicago, Brown began his career as a reporter at the Miami Herald, covering government and politics in Key West, West Palm Beach, Tallahassee and Miami.
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Gail Collins joined the editorial board of The New York Times in 1995 and six years later became the first woman editor of The Times’ editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and took a leave in order to finish a book, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. She returned to the paper as an Op-Ed columnist later in 2007.
Katherine Boo, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, was a reporter at The Washington Post when her series on mistreatment of mentally challenged people in Washington, D.C., resulted in the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Post. The Pulitzer citation praised her work for exposing "wretched neglect and abuse in the city’s group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms."
Robert Blau, a New York City native, has carved an eclectic path up the journalistic ranks. He wrote about music, reviewed movies and covered the police beat, before turning his attention to investigative reporting and editing. Following a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 1997, he began overseeing all major enterprise at the Chicago Tribune, including its years-long probe of the failures of the criminal justice system in Illinois, which yielded numerous reforms and was emulated by news organizations across the country.
John Daniszewski became AP’s vice president for international news in 2009 after three decades as a reporter, editor and correspondent who has been on assignment in more than 70 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. He is responsible for more than 500 editors and reporters in some 100 bureaus outside the United States producing coverage from some of the most complex and challenging news-gathering environments.
