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Board of Visitors
The Board of Visitors, comprising top journalism executives and leaders, provides policy guidance and advice for the Knight Fellowships program, and serves as a primary link between the program and the global journalism community.
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Sandra Mims Rowe, Board of Visitors chair, retired as editor of the Portland Oregonian in December 2009, a position she had held since 1993. Previously she was executive editor of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Va., from 1984 to 1993. She is past chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, chair of the Knight Foundation Journalism Advisory Committee and a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
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Krishna Bharat is a Distinguished Research Scientist at Google. He is the founder of Google News, an automated news service aggregating more than 50,000 sources, with 72 editions in over 30 languages. Google News won the 2003 Webby Award in the news category, and Bharat received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism. In 2004 he founded Google's R&D operations in India and served as the center's first director until 2006. Before joining Google in 1999, he was a member of the research staff at DEC Systems Research Center in Palo Alto. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Karen B. Dunlap is president and a Trustee of The Poynter Institute. She is a member of the boards the (St. Petersburg) Times Publishing Company, the Newspaper Association of America Foundation and Eckerd College. Dunlap is co-author of The Effective Editor with Foster Davis, and of The Editorial Eye with Jane Harrigan. She was editor of the Institute's Best Newspaper Writing series and has served three times as a Pulitzer Prize jurist. She was a reporter for the Macon News, the Nashville Banner and the St. Petersburg Times. She taught journalism at Tennessee State University in Nashville, and at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
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Bruno Giussani is the European director of TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) the nonprofit organization behind the TED and TEDGlobal conferences and the online TEDTalks. He is a member of TED's senior team and curates and hosts TEDGlobal and TED University. He also is a consultant to public organizations and private companies, a frequent public speaker and has authored several books. Prior to joining TED, he was a freelance journalist for publications in Europe and the United States, including the New York Times, The Economist and Business Week. He was also the European editor of the now-defunct Industry Standard magazine. He was a 2004 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford and was a member of the Knight Fellowships Strategic Plan Task Force.
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Dori J. Maynard is president and chief executive officer of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She has worked as a reporter at the Bakersfield Californian, the Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Detroit Free Press. She heads the Fault Lines project, a framework that helps journalists more accurately cover their communities. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1992-93.
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Geneva Overholser is the director of the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California. Previously, she held the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the Missouri School of Journalism's Washington, D.C. bureau. Before transitioning to academia, she served on the editorial board of the New York Times and as editor of the Des Moines Register. She was the Washington Post's ombudsman in the 1990s before becoming a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writer's Group. She has also been a Harvard Nieman fellow, chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
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Merval Pereira is a political analyst for GloboNews cable television and the CBN radio news network and political columnist for O Globo, the main newspaper of the state of Rio de Janeiro. He began his career as reporter in 1968 and since then worked as a national editor, director of the Brasília branch, managing editor, executive-editor and director of journalism for press media and radio of the Globo Organization, Brazil's largest media company. He has been awarded many prizes, including the Esso Prize for Journalism, the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in Brazil, and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Excellence in Journalism in the Americas, from the Columbia University. He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford in 1991-92.
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Stephen R. Proctor is the managing editor of The San Francisco Chronicle, where he has worked since 2003. Before moving to San Francisco, he spent 23 years as a reporter and editor at The Baltimore Sun, rising to deputy managing editor. In both Baltimore and San Francisco, he has overseen coverage that won the Pulitzer Prize, one for feature writing and one for photography. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism and history from The American University in Washington, D.C., and was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 1998-1999, where he studied narrative writing.
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Rafael Santos is publications director of Casa Editorial El Tiempo. El Tiempo is the leading daily newspaper in Colombia, and over the years has been attacked - literally, with bombs and other explosives - by forces ranging from narcoterrorists to paramilitary forces. Santos is a former Knight Fellow (1989-90). He returned from his fellowship to Colombia earlier than planned because his brother had been kidnapped, a crime recounted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez' book, "News of a Kidnapping."
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Howard Weaver was the vice president of news at the McClatchy Company before retiring in early 2009. He writes a blog, Etaoin Shrdlu (editor.blogspot.com), on the changing media landscape. He spent more than 20 years in various positions with McClatchy. He was editor of the Anchorage Daily News from 1983 to 1995, assistant to the president for new media from 1995 to 1996 and editor of the editorial pages at the Sacramento Bee from 1996-2001. He led the Anchorage Daily News to two Pulitzer Prizes for public service in 1976 and 1989.
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