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The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 2009 winners and finalists. —Richard Oppel, chair; Sig Gissler, administrator.
Allen, Danielle, UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Amoss, Jim, editor, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA
Beck, Randell, president and publisher, Argus Leader Media, Sioux Falls, SD
Bennett, Amanda, executive editor/Enterprise, Bloomberg News
Bollinger, Lee C., president, Columbia University, New York, NY
Carroll, Kathleen, executive editor and senior vice president, Associated Press
Dehli, Joyce, vice president for news, Lee Enterprises
Friedman, Thomas L., columnist, The New York Times, New York, NY
Gigot, Paul, editorial page editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
Gissler, Sig, administrator, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY
Gyllenhaal, Anders, executive editor, The Miami Herald, Miami, FL
Harris, Jay T., Wallis Annenberg Chair, Director, Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Kennedy, David M., Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Lemann, Nicholas, dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY
Lipinski, Ann Marie, vice president for civic engagement, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Moore, Gregory L., editor, The Denver Post, Denver, CO
Oppel, Richard, former editor, Austin American-Statesman, Austin, TX
Tash, Paul C., editor, chairman and CEO, The St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL
Willey, Keven Ann, vice president/editorial page editor, The Dallas Morning News
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Paul C. Tash is the editor of The St. Petersburg Times and chairman and CEO of the Times Publishing Company.
A native of South Bend, Indiana, Tash graduated summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1976. He received a Marshall Scholarship and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of laws degree from Edinburgh University in Scotland in 1978.
He started with the Times that fall as a local news reporter. He also has been a Tallahassee reporter, the city editor, metropolitan editor, Washington bureau chief and executive editor for the Times. From 1990-91, Tash was the editor and publisher of Florida Trend, a statewide business magazine owned by the Times Publishing Company.
Tash is chairman of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a school for journalists, which owns Times Publishing. He also serves on the board of the Pulitzer Prizes, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Newspaper Association of America. Tash is a director of Western Communications, an independent newspaper company based in Bend, Oregon, and he is a member of the Florida Council of 100, a group of business leaders.
Tash is married to the former Karyn Krayer of St. Petersburg, a high school teacher, and they have two daughters, seniors in college and high school.
The St. Petersburg Times is an independent newspaper and Florida’s largest daily, with an average circulation of 330,000 and 410,000 on Sunday. The Times has won six Pulitzer Prizes, and it is consistently ranked among the country’s best newspapers. Times Publishing also owns Congressional Quarterly, a news and information service and book publisher based in Washington, DC, and Governing magazine.
Tash joined The Pulitzer Prize Board in 2006.
Bio Last Updated: January 5, 2007
http://www.pulitzer.org/boardmember/150/2009