Board
Vivian Schiller (chair)
NPR
Vivian Schiller is the president and CEO of NPR. She came to NPR in January 2009 from The New York Times Co., where as senior vice president and general manager of nytimes.com she led the daily operations of the largest newspaper website on the Internet. She previously served as senior vice president of television and video for The New York Times and executive vice president and general manager for the Discovery Times Channel, which won three Emmy Awards and two Overseas Press Club Awards during her tenure. Before joining the Times in 2002, she was in charge of long-form programming at CNN, where documentaries and series produced under her auspices received five Emmys, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards and two George Foster Peabody awards.
John S. Carroll (vice chair)
Formerly of the Los Angeles Times
John Carroll has edited three newspapers: the Los Angeles Times (2000-2005), The Baltimore Sun (1991-2000) and the Lexington Herald-Leader (1979-1991). He served on the Pulitzer Prize board (1994-2003) and was its chairman in 2002. Under his leadership, the Los Angeles Times won 13 Pulitzer Prizes. He was a reporter for The Baltimore Sun in Vietnam, the Middle East and Washington, D.C., and an editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1971-72 and had a similar fellowship at Oxford in 1988. In 2006, he served as the Knight Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Alison R. Bernstein, Ph.D.
Spelman College
Alison Bernstein is the former vice president for Education, Creativity and Free Expression at the Ford Foundation. Since 1996 she oversaw the direction, conduct and evaluation of the Foundation’s work in the United States and internationally in the fields of education and scholarship, arts and culture, media, religion and sexuality. She joined the Foundation in 1982 as a program officer and subsequently served as director of the Education and Culture Program from 1992 to1996. She is a visiting professor and holds the William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professorship Chair at Spelman College in Atlanta. She previously served as associate dean of the faculty at Princeton University. She has co-authored three books and written numerous journal articles and is a trustee at Bates College.
Neil Budde
DailyMe.com
Neil Budde is president and chief product officer of DailyMe.com (http://www.dailyme.com/). He joined the personalized news provider in April 2008 after more than 30 years of print and online news experience. He was the founding editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online and vice president and editor-in-chief at Yahoo! News. His journalism career began as an editor and reporter at the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., and USA Today. He is vice president of the Online News Association and serves on the board of the California First Amendment Coalition and the Foundation for American Communications.
Mary M. Chambers
Chambers Consulting Group
Mary Chambers is president of Chambers Consulting Group in Los Angeles. She is a management, public affairs and strategic communications consultant with a strong background in education and non-profit work. She has spearheaded several successful non-profit and advocacy organizations, including LEARN (Los Angeles Educational Alliance for Restructuring Now), the New Los Angeles Marketing Partnership and the Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project. She also works with numerous non-profit, for-profit and foundation boards to increase their effectiveness. She previously served as chief of staff to a speaker of the California State Assembly and to a California congressman.
Leslie Hill
Leslie Hill served on the Dow Jones & Co. board of directors from 1997 to 2007. She is a member of the Bancroft family, which owned The Wall Street Journal prior to the sale of Dow Jones to Rupert Murdoch in 2007. With other family members, she is a founding partner of the Newseum. She also serves as an advisory board member for a committee of the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit policy research center based in Santa Monica, Calif. A retired pilot for American Airlines, she is an active community volunteer in her home town of Chevy Chase, Md.
Gwen Ifill
"Washington Week" and "PBS NewsHour"
Gwen Ifill is the moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week” and senior correspondent for the “PBS NewsHour.” The author of the 2009 best-seller The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, she has covered six presidential campaigns and moderated the vice presidential debates in 2004 and 2008. Ifill joined the two PBS programs in 1999 after working as chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC News, White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a local and national political reporter for The Washington Post. In presenting “Washington Week” with a George Foster Peabody Award for 2008, the judges described the show as “the gold standard” for public affairs programming. Ifill serves on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists and holds more than a dozen honorary doctorates.
Charles Lewis
American University
Charles Lewis is a national investigative journalist, best-selling author and founder or co-founder of three non-profit organizations, including the Center for Public Integrity. Under his leadership, the center published about 300 investigative reports, including 14 books, from 1989 through 2004, and won more than 30 national journalism honors. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998, and was a Ferris Professor at Princeton University in 2005 and a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University in 2006. He is a professor at American University and executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the university.
Paul S. Mason
Formerly ABC News
Paul S. Mason stepped down last year is a senior vice president at ABC News, where he worked since 1981. He was previously the executive in charge of “Nightline,” “This Week with George Stephanopoulos’’ and “America This Morning.” A member of Wesleyan University’s board of trustees, Mason spent three years as an acting associate professor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a member of the advisory boards of the Overseas Press Club Foundation and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland.
Kelly McBride
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies
Kelly McBride is a senior faculty member for ethics at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She has been on the Poynter faculty since 2002 and is frequently quoted on ethics matters by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NPR, the BBC and other news outlets. She has a master’s degree in theology from Gonzaga University and gained a national reputation as a religion writer for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. Kelly is currently involved with Poynter’s Sense-Making Project. With funding from the Ford Foundation, she is examining the transformation of journalism from a profession for a few to a civic obligation of many, the effects of technology on democracy and the media habits of the millennial generation.
Terry K. Peterson, Ph.D.
College of Charleston; Afterschool and Community Learning National Network
Terry Peterson helps local, state and national leaders develop strategies, policies and partnerships to expand learning opportunities and increase student and school success. He is a senior fellow at the College of Charleston and director of the Afterschool and Community Learning National Network. During the Clinton administration he served as counselor to U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley, helping to develop and enact numerous education initiatives, and he advised Riley on education issues when Riley was governor of South Carolina. A co-founder of the national Arts Education Partnership, the Pathways to College Network and the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education, Peterson chairs the national Afterschool Alliance and serves on leadership committees of five other national organizations.
Howard Schneider
School of Journalism at Stony Brook University
Howard Schneider is the founding dean of the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University on Long Island and executive director of the nation’s first Center for News Literacy. The School of Journalism has developed a pioneering course in news literacy; more than 1,000 students are enrolled in the class this semester. Schneider worked at Newsday for 35 years, including almost 18 as managing editor and editor. The paper won eight Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure. He previously taught journalism at Stony Brook and at Queens College.