OPC Award Judges and Sponsors
HAL BOYLE
Norman Pearlstine in memory of Jerry Flint
Scott Kraft (head), Los Angeles Times
Hannah Allam, McClatchy
Scott MacLeod, American University of Cairo Rebecca Blumenstein, The Wall Street Journal
Amy Wilentz, University of California Irvine
BOB CONSIDINE
William J. Holstein and Rita Sevell
Amanda Bennett (head), freelance
Melissa Pozsgay, Bloomberg News
Kelu Chao, Voice of America
Linda Fasulo, freelance
PHOTOGRAPHY
Adrees Latif (head), Reuters
David Furst, The New York Times
Yunghi Kim, freelance photographer
Carol Guzy, The Washington Post
Patrick Whalen, The Wall Street Journal
Alison Morley, International Center of Photography
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
Cyma Rubin – Business of Entertainment
LOWELL THOMAS
Dorinda Elliott (head), Paulson Institute
Sarah Lubman, Brunswick Group
Alexa Oleson, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Mary Kay Magistad, Public Radio International
Sarah Green, Harvard Business Review
DAVID KAPLAN
Ben And Karen Sherwood
Deidre Depke (head), Marketplace
David Brancaccio, Marketplace
Tunku Varadarajan, Stanford University
Mona Iskander, freelance
Ronnie Weil, The Wall Street Journal
EDWARD R. MURROW
CBS
Allan Dodds Frank (head), freelance
Walt Bogdanich, The New York Times
Karen Burnes, freelance
Betsy Stark, Ogilvy
ED CUNNINGHAM
Ford Motor Company
Vivienne Walt (head), Time
James Graff, The Wall Street Journal
Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters
Louise Roug, Mashable
THOMAS NAST
JetBlue
Robert Sullivan (head), freelance
Allen Alter, CBS
Spencer Platt, Getty Images
Marcy McGinnis, SUNY Stony Brook
Rula Amin, freelance
MORTON FRANK
Mark Lemcke
Michael Serrill(head), freelance
Gerard Baker, The Wall Street Journal
Susan Antilla, freelance
Robert Dieterich, freelance
MALCOLM FORBES
Forbes Magazine
Farnaz Fassihi (head), The Wall Street Journal
Jesse Pesta, The New York Times
Celeste Le Compte, ProPublica
John Simons, International Business Times
Stephanie Mehta, Vanity Fair
CORNELIUS RYAN
Friends of Richard Threlkeld
Dan Hertzberg (head), freelance
Neil Hickey, Columbia Journalism Review
John Bussey, The Wall Street Journal
Joyce Barnathan, International Center for Journalists
MADELINE DANE ROSS
Linda Fasulo
Laurie Hays (head), Brunswick Group
Evan Osnos, The New Yorker
Jonathan Kaufman, Northeastern University
Alessandra Galloni, Reuters
Mei Fong, freelance
DAVID ANDELMAN & PAMELA TITLE
David A. Andelman and Pamela Title
Martin Smith (head), PBS Frontline
Ed Kashi, photographer
Philip Bennett, Duke University
Habiba Nosheen, CBS
Emma Daly, Human Rights Watch
JOE & LAURIE DINE
Philip Dine
Anya Schiffrin (head), Columbia School of International and Public Affairs
Jonathan Birchall, Open Society Justice Initiative
Nicole Pope, freelancer
Allison Silver, Thomson Reuters
Nin-Hai Tseng, Fortune
BEST COMMENTARY
Barbara Demick (head), Los Angeles Times
Lee Hockstader, The Washington Post
Gady Epstein, The Economist
Nomi Morris, USC Annenberg School of Journalism
Carlos Rajo, Telemundo Network
WHITMAN BASSOW
Citi
Eric Roston (head), Bloomberg
David Biello, Scientific American
Kat Bagley, Yale Environment360
Brad Plumer, Vox
ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN
Sebastian Rotella (head), ProPublica
Ginger Thompson, ProPublica
Marcela Gaviria, Rain Media/Frontline
Chris Kraul, freelance
BEST MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION
Google
Azmat Khan (head), freelance
Latoya Peterson, Fusion
Dena Takruri, AJ+
Carla Murphy, freelance
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept
BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Michael Serrill
Charles Sennott (head), GroundTruth Project
Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker
Tom Hundley, Pulitzer Center
Andew Metz, Frontline