A diverse and distinguished panel of final judges, representing major print and broadcast outlets, meets and selects the winner in each of the competition categories from among finalists submitted by the preliminary judges and chooses the career achievement honorees. The dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management chairs the panel.
Stephen Adler
Editor-in-Chief, Reuters
Gerard Baker
Editor-at-Large, The Wall Street Journal
Nancy Barnes
Senior Vice President for News & Editorial Director, NPR
Antonio Bernardo
Dean, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Rebecca Blumenstein
Deputy Managing Editor, The New York Times
Sally Buzbee
Executive Editor, The Associated Press
David Callaway
Chief Executive Officer,TheStreet
Kevin Delaney
Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder, Quartz
Susan Goldberg
Editor in Chief,National Geographic
Jessica Lessin
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Information
Joanne Lipman
Former Chief Content Officer, Gannett | Former Editor-in-Chief, USA Today
Davan Maharaj
Former Editor & Publisher, Los Angeles Times
Stephanie Mehta
Editor-in-Chief, Fast Company
Alan Murray
Editor, Fortune
Chief Content Officer, Time Inc.
Becky Quick
“Squawk Box” Co-Anchor, CNBC
Andy Serwer
Editor-in-Chief, Yahoo Finance
Paul Steiger
Executive Chairman, ProPublica
Gillian Tett
US Managing Editor, Financial Times
Vijay Vaitheeswaran
US Business Editor, The Economist
Matthew Winkler
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus and Founder, Bloomberg News