Board
The 20-member board consists mostly of major newspaper editors and executives, along with six academics including the president of Columbia University and the dean and administrator of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The administrator and the dean cannot vote. The board elects its own members for a three-year term (excluding the dean and the administrator). Members of the board and the juries are selected with close attention "given to professional excellence and affiliation, as well as diversity in terms of gender, ethnic background, geographical distribution and size of newspaper." Each year, the chair rotates to the most senior member. The board makes all prize decisions.
The 2011–2012 board members were:
- Danielle Allen, UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
- Jim Amoss, Editor, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA (Co-chair)
- Randell Beck, President and Publisher, Argus Leader Media, Sioux Falls, SD
- Robert Blau, Managing Editor for projects and investigations, Bloomberg News, New York, NY
- Lee Bollinger, President, Columbia University, New York, NY
- Kathleen Carroll, Executive Editor and Senior Vice President, Associated Press (Co-chair)
- Joyce Dehli, Vice President for News, Lee Enterprises
- Junot Díaz, Author and Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Thomas Friedman, Columnist, The New York Times, New York, NY
- Paul Gigot, Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
- Sig Gissler, Administrator, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY
- Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY
- Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Co-chair)
- Gregory Moore, Editor, The Denver Post, Denver, CO
- Eugene Robinson, Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
- Margaret Sullivan, Editor, The Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY
- Paul Tash, Chairman and CEO, Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, FL
- Jim VandeHei, Executive Editor and Co-founder, Politico
- Keven Ann Willey, Vice President/Editorial Page Editor, The Dallas Morning News
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