By: (AP) Kathleen Carroll, senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced Monday.
The board picks the annual winners of the top award in American journalism.
Carroll, a senior vice president at the AP since September, has been executive editor of the news cooperative since 2002.
Carroll was a reporter at
The Dallas Morning News before joining the AP in Dallas in 1978. She served in Newark as AP's news editor for New Jersey in 1981-82 and then as city editor and assistant bureau chief in Los Angeles until 1984.
She was a business editor at the
International Herald Tribune in Paris until returning to the United States as an editor at the
San Jose (Calif.)
Mercury News.
She rejoined the AP in 1990 as a news editor in Washington, D.C., specializing in domestic policy coverage. In 1996, she moved to Knight Ridder, and was named Washington bureau chief in 1999.
As bureau chief, Carroll supervised Knight Ridder's Washington coverage and its overseas news report. Under her leadership, Knight Ridder won the 2001 George Polk Award for international reporting for "A Taste of Slavery," which examined the dependence of the world's chocolate industry on modern-day slavery on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast.
The Pulitzer Prizes, created by newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer in his will nearly a century ago, are awarded annually by Columbia University on recommendation of the board. Awards are given in 21 categories of journalism, American literature and music.
The election of Carroll brings the number of board members to 19. Members serve a maximum of nine years.
The 2004 prizes will be announced April 5 and presented May 24.
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