Board
John S. Carroll (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.
Don Baer
Burson-Marsteller
Don Baer is worldwide vice chairman and chief strategy officer of the strategic communications firm Burson-Marsteller and chairman of the market research firm Penn Schoen Berland. From 1998 to 2007, he was senior executive vice president for strategy and development at Discovery Communications, home of the Discovery Channel and media properties in more than 170 countries. From 1994 to 1997 he was a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, serving first as chief White House speechwriter and director of speechwriting and research and then as assistant to the president and White House director of strategic planning and communications. Baer also has been a top editor at U.S. News and World Report and has worked as a media lawyer.
Alison R. Bernstein, Ph.D.
Rutgers University
Alison Bernstein is the director of Rutgers University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership. She oversees eight programs that explore and advance women’s leadership in education, politics, science, the arts and the workplace. She is the former vice president for Education, Creativity and Free Expression at the Ford Foundation. Between 1996 and 2010, 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. During the 2010-2011 academic year, she held 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 (treasurer)
ePals Corp.
Neil Budde is executive vice president, media, for ePals Corp., an education technology company and leading safe social learning network. He joined ePals (http://epals.com) after 35 years working for news and media technology organizations, including as 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 spent five years on the board of the Online News Association.
Daniel Coronell
Univision
Daniel Coronell is vice president for news at Univision, the largest Spanish-language television network in the United States. He has more than 25 years of television reporting experience and is the former editor-in-chief of “Noticias Uno,” a national news program in Colombia. Coronell has investigated political corruption, alliances between government officials and criminals, and human rights violations. He is a six-time winner of Colombia’s top journalism award, Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar, and writes a weekly column for Semana, a Colombian news magazine.
Leslie Hill (vice chair)
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 and joined its board in December 2010. 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.
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.
Don Wycliff
Loyola University Chicago
Don Wycliff is Distinguished Journalist in Residence at the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago, a position he has held since 2008. He spent 35 years as a newspaper reporter, editor, editorial writer and columnist, including five years on the editorial board of The New York Times, almost 10 years as editorial page editor of the Chicago Tribune and five years as the Tribune’s public editor. During his tenure as editorial page editor, the Tribune won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing and was a finalist for a second. Wycliff is a member of the McCormick Foundation board.