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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 is editor of the Portland Oregonian and chair. She has been editor of the Oregonian since 1993, after having been executive editor of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Va., from 1984 to1993. 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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Karen Brown Dunlap is president and managing director of the Poynter Institute, a Trustee at Poynter and a member of the Board of Directors of the (St. Petersburg) Times Publishing Company. She on the board of the Newspaper Association of America Foundation and Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. in South Africa and the Netherlands. She is co-author of "The Effective Editor" with Foster Davis, co-author of "The Editorial Eye" with Jane Harrigan, and was editor of the Institute's Best Newspaper Writing series. She has served twice as a Pulitzer Prize jurist. She was a reporter for the Macon News, the Nashville Banner, and the St. Petersburg Times.
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Bruno Giussani is a freelance writer, blogger and consultant, based in Switzerland. He contributes to Swiss and international publications, including Time magazine, Business Week and Foreign Policy and is a leading technology blogger in Europe. His most recent book in English is "Roam: Making Sense of the Wireless Internet" (Random House, 2001 and 2002). He is the European Director of the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conferences, the Special Project Editor at Swiss news magazine L'Hebdo, and a frequent public speaker. He was a 2004 Knight Fellow at Stanford and was a member of the Knight Fellowships Strategic Plan Task Force.
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Ann Marie Lipinski is the vice president for civic engagement at the University of Chicago, where she manages the school's relationship with the surrounding city. Until 2008, she served as senior vice president and editor of the Chicago Tribune, where she also held posts as executive editor, managing editor and managing editor/news. She received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1988 and spent a year at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow from 1989 to 1990. Three years later, she directed the Tribune's year-long, prize-winning series, "Killing Our Children," about youth murders in Chicago.
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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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Rafael Santos is publisher of 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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