Year 2002

Chairman, Print Judging Panel
Chairman, Electronic Media Judging Panel
David Holwerk
Editorial Page Editor
The Sacramento Bee
Richard Simpson
UNC School of Journalism
Chapel Hill, NC

 
Amanda Bennett
Editor
Lexington Herald-Leader

Rick Christie
Assistant Business Editor
The Palm Beach Post

Melvin Claxton
Senior Investigative Reporter
Detroit Free Press

Alice Cranston
Features Editor
The Press of Atlantic City

James Day
Former Executive News Editor
Baltimore Evening Sun

John Froonjian
Investigative Reporter
The Press of Atlantic City

Carl Hausman
Chairman, Dept. of Journalism
& Creative Writing
Rowan University, 
Glassboro, NJ


Lynn Heider
News Director
WEWS-TV

Maria Henson
Assistant Managing Editor/Enterprise
Austin American-Statesman

Pia Lopez
Editorial Page Editor
Duluth News Tribune

Stephanie Nano
National Desk Supervisor
Associated Press

Jim Perskie
Associate Editorial Page Editor
The Press of Atlantic City

Neil Rattigan
Producer, KYW-TV News Philadelphia

Michael Schurman 
Former News Director
WMGM- TV/ WOND Radio

  Chrysti Shain
Associate Metro Editor 
The Charlotte Observer
 
Bill Starling
Staff Photographer
Mobile Register

John Sweeney
Public Editor, The News Journal
Wilmington, DE

Roger Tees
Former News Director
WOBM Radio, Toms River, NJ

C. A. Tuggle
Associate Professor
UNC School of Journalism
Chapel Hill, NC

Jeff Whitaker
President
The Jeff Whitaker
Company