front row left to right: L. Bollinger, N. Barnes, E. Robinson, D. Canedy, G. Collins, J. Díaz, J. Daniszewski; back row left to right: N. Brown, S. Engelberg, K. Boo, A. Marqués, S. Hahn, R. Blau, E. Ramshaw, T. Shelby (absent: E. Alexander, S. Coll; N. Carroll subsequently elected) (Photo by Bruce Gilbert/Columbia University)
The Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have elected Elizabeth Alexander to be the Foundation’s next President, effective March 2018. Alexander will succeed Earl Lewis, who has served as President since 2013.
The Pulitzer Prizes welcome submissions in all 14 Journalism categories — including the newly expanded Breaking News category. For the second year, magazines are eligible in all Prize categories.
Neil Brown is the president of The Poynter Institute. He joined Poynter in September 2017, after serving as the editor and vice president of the Tampa Bay Times.
He was named editor of the Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) in May 2010, and in that capacity oversaw the journalism published in the Times, on its website tampabay.com, and in related products including a daily tabloid called tbt*.
Dana Canedy is the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. Previously, she was senior editor at The New York Times, where she was a reporter and editor on the series "How Race Is Lived in America," the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner in National Reporting.
Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson elected chair of Pulitzer Prize Board
Columbia University announced today that Eugene Robinson, associate editor and columnist of The Washington Post, has been elected chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
The Pulitzers currently are accepting entries in Fiction, Drama, History, Biography or Autobiograpy, Poetry, General Nonfiction and Music.
John Daniszewski is the AP's vice president and editor at large for standards, working with journalists and editors around the world to ensure the highest levels of media ethics and fairness. From 2009 to 2016, he served as AP’s vice president for international news after three decades as a reporter, editor and correspondent assigned to more than 70 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.
