Doyinsola Abiola - Ms. Abiola recently was named vice chairman of the Concord Group of Newspapers in Lagos, Nigeria, where she has worked since 1986. Prior to becoming vice chairman, Ms. Abiola spent 15 years as managing director and editor-in-chief of the Concord Group, supervising more than 500 employees nationwide and playing a major role in the growth of the newspaper industry in Nigeria. She also was editor of the National Concord in Lagos, features editor for the Daily Times in Lagos, and a reporter for the Daily Sketch in Ibadan, Nigeria. Ms. Abiola is the co-founder and president of the Foundation for African Media Excellence and is a board member of the National Commission for Women Affairs and the Nigerian Media Merit Awards. She holds a bachelor's degree in English and Drama from the University of Ibadan, a master's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate degree in mass communications from the State University of New York.

Emad Adeeb - Mr. Adeeb is a prominent Arab journalist who is chairman and editor-in-chief of a number of major Arab publications including the Al Alam Al Youm newspaper in Egypt. He also is the host of "Ala el Hawa" ("On the Air"), one of the most popular satellite television talk shows in the Arab world. He is chairman of Good News Network, an Arabic electronic media network that includes the Arabic language portal for MSNBC. A consultant on Middle East issues for television news outlets including ABC and the Orbit Network, Mr. Adeeb has interviewed virtually every major Arab leader as well as key U.S. and Israeli officials during his career. Mr. Adeeb began his work in journalism as a reporter on the Al Ahram newspaper. He also served as managing editor of Al Sharq Al Awsat in both the Cairo and Washington bureaus; editor-in-chief of Sayedaty magazine in London; and editor-in-chief of Al Magalla. He holds a degree in mass communication from Cairo University, a political science degree from Georgetown University, a degree from the International Press Institute in Berlin, and a degree in business administration from the University for Political Economic Studies in London.

Martin Baron - Mr. Baron has been editor of The Boston Globe since July 30, 2001. He came to Boston from the Miami Herald, where he served as executive editor and led the newspaper to a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage in 2001. He was named "Editor of the Year" in 2001 by Editor & Publisher. Mr. Baron began his journalism career at the Miami Herald in 1976, first as a state reporter and then as a business writer. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1978 and held a number of positions culminating in 1993 when he was named editor of the newspaper's Orange County Edition. Baron joined The New York Times in 1996, and a year later, he became associate managing editor responsible for the nighttime news operations of the paper, a post he held until moving to the Herald. Mr. Baron was born and raised in Tampa, Fla., and holds both a BA and an MBA degree from Lehigh University.

Marcus W. Brauchli - Mr. Brauchli is national editor of The Wall Street Journal, a post he has held since January 2000. Prior to assuming the job of national editor, Mr. Brauchli was based in Shanghai from 1995 to 1999 while serving as the China bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal and The Asian Wall Street Journal. He had covered China previously, in 1984, as a correspondent for AP-Dow Jones News Service. He also held overseas assignments for the Journal in Scandinavia, Japan, and Southeast and South Asia. Mr. Brauchli is a graduate of Columbia University and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1991-1992.

Steven Coll - Mr. Coll is managing editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1985. He joined the paper as a feature writer for the Style section, then moved to New York in 1987 as a financial correspondent. He and a colleague, David A. Vise, won the 1990 Pultizer Prize for explanatory journalism for their series on the Securities Exchange Commission. Mr. Coll moved to New Delhi in 1989 as The Post's South Asia correspondent covering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal, then transferred to London in 1992 as The Post's first international projects and investigative correspondent. He spent three years as editor and publisher of The Washington Post Magazine before being named managing editor of the newspaper in 1998. Mr. Coll is the author of four books and is the recipient of a number of awards for his international reporting including the Overseas Press Club's Ed Cunningham Memorial Award and the Robert F. Kennedy International Print Award for his reporting on the civil war in Sierra Leone.

Alex S. Jones - Mr. Jones is the director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. A well-known media critic and commentator, Mr. Jones spent four years as the host of National Public Radio's "On the Media" program in the early 1990s, and he continues to do commentaries for the program as senior correspondent. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Jones was the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism at Duke University. He covered the press for The New York Times from 1983 to 1992, and his articles on the collapse of the Bingham family's newspaper empire in Louisville, Ky., won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. He and his wife, Susan E. Tifft, are also the authors of "The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times," which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award in biography, and "The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty." A graduate of Washington & Lee University, Mr. Jones was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1981-82.

Donald Kimelman - Mr. Kimelman is the director of the Venture Fund for the Pew Charitable Trusts. The Venture Fund pursues grant-making initiatives that fall outside the six major program areas funded by Pew as well as funding the Trusts' media programs. The six Pew media programs are the International Reporting Project; the Pew Research Center for The People and The Press; the Project for Excellence in Journalism; the Pew Center on the States; the Media Unit on the "NewHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS; and the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. Kimelman joined the Pew Charitable Trusts following a distinguished journalism career that included a series of reporting and editing positions during 18 years with the Philadelphia Inquirer. He also worked at the Annapolis Evening Capital and The (Baltimore) Sun. Kimelman earned his undergraduate degree at Yale University and a graduate degree from Columbia University.

Kevin Klose - Mr. Klose is president and CEO of National Public Radio, the nation's premier non-profit news and cultural radio programming service, with 600 stations and a weekly audience of nearly 15 million. Klose, an award-winning author, joined NPR in December 1998 following four years overseeing U.S. government television and radio broadcasts as director of U.S. International Broadcasting and as president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Before moving into international broadcasting, Klose spent 25 years with The Washington Post in various positions including city editor, Moscow bureau chief, Midwest correspondent and deputy national editor. He is the author of "Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society," which won the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Award, and the co-author of four other books. Klose received a B.A. degree, cum laude, from Harvard.

Andrew Kohut - Mr. Kohut, a nationally recognized expert on public opinion research, is director of the Pew Research Center for The People and The Press, formerly the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press. Mr. Kohut joined the Times Center in 1990 as its founding director of surveys, and in 1993, he became its director. Prior to joining the Times Center, Mr. Kohut spent 10 years as president of The Gallup Organization and founded Princeton Survey Research Associates, an attitude and opinion research firm specializing in media, politics and public policy studies. A frequent commentator on the meaning and interpretation of opinion poll results, Mr. Kohut served as a consultant and analyst for National Public Radio during the 2000 presidential elections, and he is a regular contributor to the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. The author of three books and a regular columnist for the Columbia Journalism Review, Mr. Kohut received an A.B. degree from Seton Hall University and took graduate courses in sociology at Rutgers.

Bill Kovach - Mr. Kovach, a former curator of the Nieman Foundation's journalism fellowship program at Harvard University, is chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. His journalism career spans 40 years, including 18 years as a reporter and editor for The New York Times and two years as editor of the Atlanta Journal- Constitution. Kovach began his journalism career at the Johnson City (Tennessee) Press- Chronicle, and from 1960-1967, he covered civil rights, southern politics and Appalachian poverty for the Nashville Tennessean. Following a journalism fellowship at Stanford University, he joined The New York Times, where he held a variety of positions including Washington bureau chief from 1979 to 1986. As an editor, Kovach has supervised reporting projects that won four Pulitzer Prizes, and he served on Pulitzer Prize juries for 13 years. He has received a number of awards for his work as a reporter and editor and for his contributions to the field of journalism. The author of numerous books and articles, Kovach attended East Tennessee University, where he received a B.S. degree in biology.

Louise Lief - Ms. Lief is a deputy director of the International Reporting Project, a post she assumed after spending 10 years as a State Department and foreign affairs correspondent and a senior editor for U.S. News and World Report. Prior to joining U.S. News, Ms. Lief worked in Paris as an associate producer/researcher for the CBS news show "60 Minutes" and as a stringer for Time and Newsweek. While in Paris, she was a contributor to The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and The Boston Globe Magazine, and she also was a stringer for several news outlets in Cairo. As a member of a team of reporters for U.S. News, she shared in the 1994 Edwin P. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence, and she also won the 1990 Hallie and Whit Burnett Award for Best General Magazine Article on Foreign Affairs. Ms. Lief received a grant from the U.S. Office of Education to study Arabic at the Bourguiba Language Institute in Tunis and an ITT International Fellowship for Arabic language studies at the American University in Cairo. She is a cum laude graduate of Yale University with degrees in French and North African Studies, and she holds a Certificate of Arabic Language Studies from the American University in Cairo.

J. Gerardo Lopez - Mr. L�pez is the editor of La Opini�n, the largest Spanish language daily newspaper in the United States. He has held this post since 1995. As editor of the prominent newspaper that serves Hispanic readers in Southern California, Mr. Lopez oversees all news operations and the newspaper's editorial policy. He began his career as a reporter for La Opini�n in 1977, and over the years, he has covered national and local politics, social justice issues and other events and topics of special interest to Latinos. He also has been the newspaper's metro editor, assistant editor, managing editor and associate editor. He is a member of the Inter American Press Association's board of directors and he sits on the board of governors of the Wallace Stegner Initiative, a project of the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources. Mr. L�pez attended California State University at Northridge, where he received a B.A. degree in journalism in 1976.

Dwight L. Morris - Mr. Morris has spent 25 years in survey research and currently heads his own firm, Dwight L. Morris & Associates. Previously, he worked for the Campaign Study Group, Louis Harris & Associates, Opinion Research Corporation, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The New York Times. Among his specific projects, Mr. Morris was involved with two groundbreaking studies on non-voting which identified five distinct groups of politically disengaged Americans and also explored the political participation of young people and minority populations. In addition, Mr. Morris has conducted a number of studies for programs supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, including a survey for the Pew Center for Civic Journalism that explored the attitudes of senior editors at newspapers with daily circulations of 20,000 or more about news coverage and the readers they serve.

Robert Rivard - Mr. Rivard, the editor of the San Antonio Express-News since 1997, also has extensive experience as a foreign correspondent and a magazine journalist. Named the inaugural "Editor of the Year" in 2000 by Editor & Publisher, Mr. Rivard won national attention in December 1998 when he traveled to Mexico to lead the search teams that located and recovered the body of Philip True, the newspaper's Mexico City correspondent who was murdered by Huichol Indians while hiking in western Mexico. Mr. Rivard began his journalism career as a sports reporter for the Brownsville (Texas) Herald and also worked for the Corpus Christi Caller before joining the staff of the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald. At the Times Herald, Rivard opened the paper's first Central America news bureau in San Jose, Costa Rica, and covered civil wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala as well as the Falklands war between Argentina and Great Britain. In 1983, Mr. Rivard joined Newsweek as the magazine's Central American bureau chief, He worked in New York as a senior editor for the magazine until his return to Texas in 1990. The winner of a number of journalism awards including the Society of Professional Journalists' Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondents, Mr. Rivard serves on the InterAmerican Press Association board of directors and the board of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.

Richard Sambrook - Mr. Sambrook, the director of BBC News, began his journalism career as a newspaper reporter in the Welsh Valleys before trading the print press for broadcasting and joining the BBC in 1980. His first position was a sub-editor job in the radio newsroom, but four years later he moved into the television side of the operation as a producer and editor for BBC's national TV news shows. He spent five years with the BBC's flagship "Nine O'Clock News" during the period when the Berlin Wall fell, Margaret Thatcher resigned as British Prime Minister and Great Britain joined the United States and other allied nations in fighting the Gulf War. Mr. Sambrook was named deputy director of BBC News in December 1999 and also served as director of sport from April to October in 2000. He was promoted to his present position as director of BBC News in February 2001. Mr. Sambrook attended the University of Reading and the University of London, where he received a masters in politics degree.

Najam Sethi - Mr. Sethi is the founder and editor of two newspapers in Lahore, Pakistan -- The Friday Times, an independent weekly, and The Daily Times, a national newspaper. He also has served as the Pakistan correspondent for The Economist since 1990. Mr. Sethi is the founder of Vanguard Books, an independent publishing house, and has served as vice chairman of the Pakistan Publisher and Booksellers Association and senior vice president of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors. Mr. Sethi is a frequent commentator for various international radio and television channels including the BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, Radio Australia, Radio Iran, Voice of America and National Public Radio. In 1999, Mr. Sethi was imprisoned by the Nawaz Sharif government for exposing the Pakistan prime minister's corruption. For that work, he received the Journalism Under Threat Award from Amnesty International and the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. He is an international trustee of the Asia Society in New York.

John Schidlovsky - Mr. Schidlovsky is the director of the International Reporting Project, which was begun in 1998 to encourage more international news coverage in the U.S. media. Prior to joining the Pew program, Mr. Schidlovsky spent four years as director of the Freedom Forum's Asian Center in Hong Kong from 1993 to 1997, where he monitored media changes as Hong Kong moved from British to Chinese rule and worked with journalists throughout the Asia-Pacific region on training and press freedom issues. He also spent three years as curator of the Jefferson Fellowship program for journalists at the East-West Center in Honolulu from 1990-1993 and spent 13 years with The (Baltimore) Sun including overseas assignments as the newspaper's Beijing and New Delhi bureau chief. Mr. Schidlovsky began his journalism career as a reporter at the Springfield (Mass.) Union and also was a free lance reporter in Beirut and Cairo for NBC, ABC and Newsday. He has written extensively on media issues for a number of magazines and scholarly publications. He studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo and received a B.A. degree in English from Columbia University.