BILL BUZENBERG, executive director, has been a journalist and news executive at newspapers and in public radio for more than 35 years. He was vice president of news at both National Public Radio and American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio over a span of 16 years. Buzenberg is credited with launching such programs as NPR’s Talk of the Nation, APM’s documentary unit American RadioWorks, and Speaking of Faith. He also began Public Insight Journalism, an innovative use of technology to draw knowledge from the audience. Buzenberg joined NPR in 1978 as the first reporter to help start Morning Edition. For 11 years he was a foreign affairs correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He was named London bureau chief in 1986 and became NPR’s first managing editor in 1989. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Buzenberg has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award, public radio’s highest honor. A graduate of Kansas State University, Buzenberg has also been a fellow at the University of Michigan, the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

HODDING CARTER III is an award-winning journalist and the former president and chief executive officer of the Knight Foundation. He became a professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in January 2006. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1965, he was later tapped as the first Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of Maryland College of Journalism. His journalistic career began at the Delta Democrat-Times, in Greenville, Mississippi where he was editor and associate publisher. He served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs under President Jimmy Carter, a role in which he most notably became the administration’s spokesman during the Iran hostage crisis. After government service, he became an op-ed columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a television anchor, correspondent, commentator, and production company founder-president. He won four Emmys and the Edward R. Murrow Award. He has authored two books, and has contributed to nine others. He is a graduate of Princeton University.

SHEILA CORONEL, board vice chair, is the director of The Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. For 17 years she was the director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and the Creative Communication Arts in 2003. In 1989, Coronel and her colleagues founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism to promote investigative reporting. Coronel is a graduate of the University of the Philippines, and has a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.

ALAN J. DWORSKY is the principal of Mt. Auburn Management, an equity money management firm he founded in 1984 serving institutional clients. He and his wife established and serve as trustees of the Popplestone Foundation. Dworsky was previously at the Putnam Companies for 17 years as an analyst, portfolio manager, and member of the investment committee. Dworsky has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School and serves as a member of the board of directors of several private companies.

CHARLES EISENDRATH directs two programs for working journalists at the University of Michigan, the Knight-Wallace Fellows and the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. Since 2006 he has also been the chairman of the American board of the International Press Institute. Eisendrath’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, The Miami Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and the International Herald Tribune. He is an occasional commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. He has served on the international jury of the Pulitzer Prize and is a member of the Inter-American Press Association. Eisendrath holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan.

DAN A. EMMETT is the chairman of the board of directors for Douglas Emmett, Inc. He co-founded DEI’s predecessor companies, Douglas, Emmett and Company, a fully integrated real estate management and leasing company, and Douglas Emmett Realty Advisors, which grew during the 1990’s into a large manager of institutional real estate funds. Emmett received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in 1961 and his J.D. degree from Harvard University in 1964.

BRUCE A. FINZEN, board secretary-treasurer, is a former partner in and currently of counsel to the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, in Minneapolis. As a mass-tort litigator, Finzen is recognized as a highly successful manager of cases involving multistate, multiple plaintiff, and class-action issues, and has played a leading role in some of the most important product safety and consumer health cases of the last several decades. He was one of the partners from his firm in charge of litigation on behalf of the government of India arising out of the Bhopal gas leak disaster, and the firm’s principal negotiator in the $6.4 billion settlement of the State of Minnesota/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota tobacco case. He graduated from the University of Minnesota and the University of Kansas, School of Law.

JOANNIE FISCHER has spent two decades covering everything from national politics to neuroscience for U.S. News & World Report and was the youngest person at U.S. News to be promoted to associate editor, and later to senior editor. During this tenure, she has won several prizes and fellowships including the American Association for the Advancement of Science best young science writer award, the Woods Hole Marine Biology summer fellowship, and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in Magazine Journalism. Fischer graduated from Harvard University.

BILL KOVACH is the founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, and a consultant to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Kovach has been a journalist and writer for 40 years. He began his career at the Johnson City Press Chronicle in Tennessee and, from 1960 to 1967, was a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean, covering the civil-rights movement, southern politics, and Appalachian poverty. After a year of study on a journalism fellowship at Stanford University he joined The New York Times, where he worked as a reporter and later as the chief of its Washington bureau. Kovach left the Times in 1986 and was the editor of The Atlanta Journal Constitution for two years in. He was appointed a Nieman Fellow in the class of 1988-89 and remained as curator.

SUSAN LOEWENBERG is the founder and producing director of L.A. Theatre Works, a nonprofit organization that provides cultural programming for public radio through their weekly series, The Play’s The Thing. Additionally, LATW’s Audio Publishing division has the largest library of recorded stage plays in the world, available in over 8,000 public libraries, through bookstores, iTunes, and other distributors. She has produced more than 400 recordings, which are also used by both secondary schools and institutions of higher learning. She has served on many boards, commissions, and panels including the National Endowment for the Arts, the President’s Commission on White House Fellows, and Federal Prison Industries, also a presidential appointment.

BEVIS LONGSTRETH is a retired partner of Debevoise & Plimpton, a New York-based international law firm. He served as commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1981-84. He serves on the board of trustees of New School University, the board of directors of Grantham, Mayo and Van Otterloo, a Boston-based investment management firm, and the finance committee of the Rockefeller Family Fund, a private foundation. Longstreth received a B.S.E. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard University.

OLIVIA MA is the news manager and part of the news and politics team at YouTube. She manages the news programming on the site, working with professional news organizations, amateur journalists, and citizens documenting the events happening around them. Last fall, she launched YouTube’s first major journalism program, Project: Report, a contest for aspiring journalists produced with the Pulitzer Center and has worked on many of YouTube’s political initiatives around the 2008 election. Prior to joining YouTube, Ma worked for Plum, a social media-sharing website where she was the product manager and community specialist. Ma is a graduate of Harvard University where she oversaw production of Current, a national student newsmagazine, published in partnership with Newsweek.

PAULA MADISON is executive vice president and chief diversity officer for NBC Universal. Madison was appointed to the role in May 2007 and was named a GE Company officer in June 2007. Madison leads NBC Universal’s corporate diversity initiatives, spanning all broadcast television, cable, digital, and film properties. Previously, Madison was the president and general manager of NBC’s owned and operated station, KNBC and regional general manager of Telemundo stations KVEA and KWHY, all based in Los Angeles. Madison, a 19-year GE veteran, was the first African American woman to become general manager at a network-owned station in a top five market. She has been recipient of several awards including the Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Madison is a graduate of Vassar College.

JOHN E. NEWMAN, JR., a businessman with investments in information companies, is the president of The John and Florence Newman Foundation, in San Antonio, Texas. He is active in several educational and health-related nonprofit organizations.

DR. GILBERT OMENN is professor of internal medicine, human genetics, and public health and director of the Center for Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics and the Proteomics Alliance for Cancer Research at the University of Michigan. He served as executive vice president for medical affairs and as chief executive officer of the University of Michigan Health System from 1997 to 2002. Omenn was dean of the School of Public Health and professor of medicine and environmental health, University of Washington, Seattle, from 1982-1997. He was associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget in the Carter administration. He chaired the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management in the 1990s. Omenn has a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.D. from Harvard University, and a Genetics Ph.D from the University of Washington.

GENEVA OVERHOLSER is the director of the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. She is a former editor of The Des Moines Register, ombudsman of The Washington Post, and member of The New York Times editorial board. Under her leadership, the Register won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service. She was named “Editor of the Year” by the National Press Foundation and “Best in the Business” by the American Journalism Review. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and has a master’s degree from Northwestern University. Overholser was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a Congressional Fellow with the American Political Science Association.

ALLEN PUSEY is the managing editor of the American Bar Association Journal in Chicago and a former special projects editor for the Washington bureau of The Dallas Morning News and Belo Broadcasting. He has also reported for the Dallas Times Herald and the El Paso Times. Pusey, who was one of the first reporters to uncover the savings-and-loan scandal in the early 1980s, has received numerous awards for his coverage of local and national issues. Pusey is a graduate the University of Texas at Dallas.

SREE SREENIVASAN is a leading technology expert and dean of students’ affairs at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he runs the new media program. He specializes in explaining technology to consumers, readers, and viewers. For more than eight years, he served as WABC-TV and WNBC-TV in New York and occasionally on various NBC and MSNBC news programs. He has written articles for The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, National Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, and Popular Science. He is co-founder and former president of the South Asian Journalists Association, and has served as faculty adviser to Columbia’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Sreenivasan has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia; and is a graduate of St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi. In March 2004 Newsweek named him one of the nation’s 20 most influential South Asians. More on his work at www.sree.net.

MARIANNE SZEGEDY-MASZAK, board chair, has worked in journalism for over 20 years for such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Republic, Newsweek, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Psychology Today, and Newsday, among others. A former professor of Journalism at American University, senior writer at U.S. News & World Report and a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times health section, she was a winner of the prestigious Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship. As a Pulitzer Traveling Fellow in 1986, Szegedy-Maszak lived in Hungary and covered Central Europe for Newsweek and ABC Radio. Szegedy-Maszak is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University’s School of Journalism and is now writing a historical nonfiction book for Speigel & Grau.