Bill Berkeley
Adjunct professor, School of Journalism, Columbia University. Author of The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa.

John Carroll
Former editor, Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, and Lexington Herald-Leader.

William Freivogel
Director, Department of Journalism, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Journalist, chief Africa correspondent for National Public Radio. Formerly a correspondent for CNN, PBS NewsHour and The New York Times.

Geneva Overholser
Director, School of Journalism, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication.

We mourn the loss of Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Center Advisory Council member and New York Times journalist, who died in February 2012 while reporting in Syria.