The George Foster Peabody Awards Board of Jurors

This table outlines all of the people who have ever been a juror for The Peabody Awards

Juror	Years Active	Occupation at the time of joining the board	Position
Edward Weeks	July 1940 - June 1977	Editor, Atlantic Monthly	Chairman, July 1940 - June 1954
Bruce Barton	July 1940 - June 1942	President, Batten, Barton, Dustin, and Osborne Advertising Agencies	Member
John H. Benson	July 1940 - June 1960	President, American Association of Advertising Agencies	Member
Virginius Dabney	July 1940 - June 1942	Editor, Times-Dispatch	Member
Jonathan Daniels	July 1940 - June 1950	Editor, News and Observer	Member
Norman H. Davis	July 1940 - June 1942	Chairman, American Red Cross and former Acting Secretary of State	Member
Mark F. Ethridge	July 1940 - June 1954	Vice President and General Manager, Courier-Journal and Times	Member
Waldemar Kaempffert	July 1940 - June 1956	Science Editor, New York Times	Member
Alfred A. Knopf	July 1940 - June 1946	Publisher	Member
Grace Moore	July 1940 - June 1942	Metropolitan Opera Company	Member
John S. Studebaker	July 1940 - June 1942	United States Commissioner of Education and Chairman, Federal Radio Education Committee	Member
Marjorie Peabody Waite	July 1940 - June 1944	Daughter of George Foster Peabody	Member
Dr. Ralph Casey	July 1942 - June 1946	Director, School of Journalism, University of Minnesota	Member
Earl Glade	July 1942 - June 1966	Chairman, NAB Code Compliance Committee	Member
Joseph Henry Jackson	July 1942 - June 1952	Literary Editor, San Francisco Chronicle	Member
Beatrice Sawyer Rossell	July 1942 - June 1943	-	Member
Dr. I. Keith Tyler	July 1942 - June 1952 and July 1953 - June 1978	Director, Evaluation of School Broadcasts, Ohio State University	Member
Elizabeth Ames	July 1944 - June 1969	Director of Yaddo	Member
Dr. Dixon Wechter	July 1945 - June 1947	Professor of English, University of California and Associate Fellow, Huntington Museum	Member
Bennett A. Cerf	July 1946 - June 1967 and July 1970 - June 1971	President, Random House, Inc.	Chairman from July 1954 to June 1967
Ralph McGill	July 1946 - February 3, 1969	Editor, Atlanta Constitution	Member
John Crosby	July 1947 - June 1962	Radio Columnist of the New York Herald Tribune	Member
Paul Porter	July 1947 - June 1963 and July 1964 - June 1975	Former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission	Member
Dorothy Lewis	July 1948 - June 1951 and July 1952 - June 1977	Coordinator, Women’s Broadcasts	Member
Philip Hamburger	July 1950 - June 1952 and July 1953 - June 1959 and July 1960 - June 1961	Television Writer of The New Yorker	Member
Terrence O’Flaherty	July 1952 - June 1963 and July 1964 - June 1965 and July 1966 - 1984	Radio-TV Editor, San Francisco Chronicle	Member
Henry F. Pringle	July 1954 - June 1956	Pulitzer Prize-winning author	Member
Mrs. Harold V. Milligan	July 1955 - June 1967	Representing Peabody Listening Posts	Member
Harriet Van Horne	July 1958 - June 1967	Radio-TV Editor, New York World Telegram and Sun	Member
Larry Wolters	July 1958 - February 28, 1969	TV Editor, Chicago Tribune	Member
Edgar Kobak	July 1959 - June 1, 1961	Communications and Business Consultant	Member
John Lardner	July 1959 - March 24, 1960	Writer, The New Yorker and Newsweek	Member
Sterling Fisher	July 1962 - June 1963	Director of Public Relations, Reader’s Digest	Member
Newton N. Minow	July 1963 - June 1976	Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Encyclopedia Britannica and former chairman, Federal Communications Commission	Member
John Charles Daly	July 1966 - June 1982	Communications Consultant	Member
Don Freeman	July 1966 - June 1984	TV Editor, San Diego Union	Member
Eugene R. Black	July 1967 - 1977	Special Advisor to the President for Economic and Social Development in Southeast Asia	Chair, 1967 - 1977
Dr. Harold Niven	July 1967 - June 1984	Vice President, National Association of Broadcasters and Executive Secretary, Association for Professional Broadcasting Education	Member
Dr. Gertrude B. Broderick	July 1968 - June 1978	Media Research Associate, Instructional Materials and Practice Branch, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare	Member
Sidney L. James	July 1975 - 1979	Retired Vice President, Time, Inc., founding editor, Sports Illustrated, former Assistant Managing Editor, LIFE, and Chairman, Greater Washington Educational Television Association	Chair July 1977 - 1979
Dr. William G. Harley	July 1976 - June 1985	President Emeritus, National Association of Educational Broadcasters and Media Consultant, UNESCO	Chairman, July 1979 - June 1985
W. Thomas Johnson	July 1976 - June 1980	Publisher, Dallas Times-Herald, President and Chief Operating Officer, Los Angeles Times	Member
Dr. Lionel C. Barrow, Jr.	July 1977 - June 1980	Dean, School of Communications, Howard University	Member
Elizabeth S. Carpenter	July 1977 - 1983	Public Affairs Director, Lyndon B. Johnson Library and former Assistant Secretary of Education	Member
Kitty Carlisle Hart	July 1977 - June 1983	Chairman, New York State Council of the Arts	Member
Robert Hudson	July 1977 - 1979	Former Vice President, National Educational Television, former faculty member, University of Illinois, and member, Fund for Advancement of Education	Member
Dr. Karl E. Meyer	July 1977 - June 1983	TV Editor, Saturday Review	Member
Wade H. Mosby	July 1977 - June 1983	Editor, TV Screen, Milwaukee Journal	Member
Peggy Mobley Childs	July 1978 - June 1984	State Representative, Georgia Legislature	Member
Dr. Barbara Jordan	July 1978 - June 1980	Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin	Member
J. Leonard Reinsch	July 1979 - June 1985	Retired Chairman of the Board, Cox Broadcasting Corporation and Co-Chairman, Warner/AMEX Cable Corporation	Member
Margita E. White	July 1979 - June 1985	Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission	Member
Joyce J. Bartell	July 1980 - June 1988	Former Director, Wisconsin School of the Air	Member
Arlene Francis Gabel	July 1980 - June 1982	Noted stage and radio personality	Member
John E. Reinhardt	July 1980 - June 1987	Former Ambassador and Director, National Museum of African Art	Member
Les Brown	July 1982 - June 1988	Author and Editor-In-Chief, Channels of Communication	Member
Dr. Frank Manchel	July 1982 - June 1989	Assistant Dean, University of Vermont College of Arts and Sciences, and Coordinator, Communications Program, UVM	Chair, July 1985 - June 1987
Edward W. Hummers, Jr.	July 1983 - June 1989	Communications attorney	Chair, July 1987 - June 1989
Barbara Matusow	July 1983 - June 1988	Author, Journalist	Member
F. Glenn Verrill	July 1983 - June 1989	President, BDA/BBDO	Member
Abbott Washburn	July 1983 - June 1989	Former Ambassador and Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission	Member
John Carman	July 1984 - June 1991	TV Editor, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution	Member
Edward M. Cramer	July 1984 - June 1991	President, Broadcast Music, Inc.	Member
Ambassador Sonia Landau	July 1984 - June 1991	Chairman of the Board, Corporation for Public Broadcasting	Member
Lawrence B. Taishoff	July 1984 - 1991	Publisher, Broadcasting Magazine	Member
Jean Firstenberg	July 1985 - June 1991	President, American Film Institute	Chair, 1989 - 1991
Jill S. Ruckelshaus	July 1985 - June 1991	Former Assistant to the President for Women’s Affairs and former Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights	Member
Julian Goodman	July 1986 - June 1992	Former Chairman of the Board, NBC and member of Gannett Board	Member
Lamond Godwin	July 1987 - June 1989	First Vice President, American Express Bank, Ltd.	Member
Merrill Brown	July 1988 - June 1991	Editor, Channels Magazine	Member
Thomas C. Dowden	July 1988 - June 1994	President, Dowden Communication Investors	Chair, July 1991 - June 1993
Susan Stewart	July 1988 - June 1994 and July 2004 - June 2005	TV Critic, The Detroit Free Press	Member
Ambassador Sheldon Krys	July 1989 - June 1995 and July 1996 - June 1997	Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security	Chair, July 1993 - June 1995
Clark Pollock	July 1989 - June 1994	Former President, Nationwide Communication, Inc.	Member
Frances Preston	July 1989 - June 1995	President and CEO, Broadcast Music, Inc.	Member
Dr. Horace Newcomb	July 1990 - June 1995	Professor, Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas	Member, Director from 2001 - June 2013
Louisa A. Nielsen	July 1990 - June 1995	Executive Director, Broadcast Education Association	Member
Elizabeth Crow	July 1991 - June 1996	President, Gruner & Jahr USA Publishing	Member
Holly Echols	July 1991 - June 1997	Manager-Media Relations, AT&T	Member
Doris Indyke	July 1991 - June 1996 and July 2002 - June 2003	Executive Director, Through the Flower and Media Consultant	Member
Regina Resnik	July 1991 - June 1996	Former member, The Metropolitan Opera; writer, producer, director; Member of the Board, Metropolitan Opera Guild	Member
Ernest Sanchez	July 1991 - June 1996	Communications attorney; former attorney, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and general counsel for National Public Radio	Member
Tom Shales	July 1991 - June 1996	TV Critic, The Washington Post and Pulitzer prize-winning author	Member
Nancy Woodhull	July 1991 - April 1, 1997	President, Nancy Woodhull & Associates, Inc.	Chair, July 1995 - April 1, 1997
Bruce DuMont	July 1992 - June 1998	President, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago Cultural Center	Chair, July 1997 - June 1998
Neil L. Aronstam	July 1993 - June 2000 and July 2005 - June 2006	President, Independent Media Services, Inc.	Chair, July 1998 - June 2000
Sir Michael Checkland	July 1994 - June 2000	Retired Director General, BBC	Member
Ed Bark	July 1995 - June 2000	TV Critic, The Dallas Morning News	Member
Dr. James Carey	July 1995 - June 2002	Professor, Columbia University School of Journalism	Member
Dr. Jannette Dates	July 1995 - June 2002	Acting Dean, Howard University School of Communications	Member
Dr. James Hindman	July 1995 - June 2001	Deputy Director, The American Film Institute	Member
David Roland	July 1995 - June 2002	President, The Roland Company	Chair, July 2000 - June 2002
Marcie Ersoff	July 1996 - June 2003	Retired News Executive and Media Consultant	Member
Betty J. Hudson	July 1996 - June 2003	Senior Vice President Corporate Communications, The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.	Chair, July 2002 - June 2003
Ron Nessen	July 1996 - June 2003	Program Host, Nostalgia Television	Chair, July 2003 - June 2004
Stuart Revill	July 1996 - June 2003	Former Assistant Managing Director, Australian Broadcasting Commission	Member
Howard Rosenberg	July 1996 - June 2003	TV Critic, Los Angeles Times	Member
Sonia Manzano	July 1997 - June 2001	Actress/Writer, Children’s Television Workshop	Member
William F. Woo	July 1997 - June 2003	Professor of Journalism, Department of Communication, Stanford University	Member
Marlene Sanders	July 1998 - June 2004	Professional-in-Resident, Media Studies Center	Member
Danforth P. Fales	July 2000 - June 2005	Media Consultant	Member
Peter Fiddick	July 2000 - June 2006	Meat Critic and Editor	Chair, July 2005 - June 2006
Helen DeMichiel	July 2001 - June 2007	National Director, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture	Member
Meryl Marshall-Daniels	July 2001 - June 2007	President, Two Oceans Entertainment Group	Chair, July 2006 - June 2007
Bel Hernandez	July 2002 - June 2008	Co-Founder, LATINHEAT Magazine	Member
Robert H. Levi	July 2002 - June 2003	Entertainment Industry Programming & Distribution Consultant	Member
Joanne Ostrow	July 2002 - June 2005	TV/Radio Critic, The Denver Post	Member
Johnathan Rodgers	July 2002 - June 2003	Former President, Discovery Networks and President/CEO, Radio One-Comcast Television projects	Member
Yuen-Ying Chan	July 2003 - June 2009	Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, Hong Kong University	Member
Barbara Cochran	July 2003 – present	President, RTNDA	Member
Rebecca Leet	July 2003 - June 2007	President, Rebecca Leet Associates	Member
Ron Simon	July 2003 - June 2009	Curator, Television, The Museum of Television & Radio	Chair, July 2008 - June 2009
Susan Douglas	July 2004 - July 2010	Department Chair, Communication Studies, University of Michigan	Chair, July 2009 - June 2010
Jonathan Estrin	July 2004 - June 2009	Executive Vice President, American Film Institute	Member
Raúl Garza	July 2004 - June 2011	Sr. VP and Director, U.S. Diversity Communications Group, Hill & Knowlton, Inc.	Chair, July 2010 - June 2011
Frazier Moore	July 2004 - June 2010	TV Writer, Associated Press	Member
Melanie McFarland	July 2005 - June 2011	TV Critic, Seattle Post-Intelligencer	Member
Dwight Ellis	July 2006 - June 2008	President & CEO, Dwight Ellis & Associates Ltd.	Member
Frank-Dieter Freiling	July 2006 - June 2008	Senior Vice President, International Affairs, ZDF — German Television	Member
Harry Jessell	July 2006 - June 2011	Editor/Publisher, TVNewsday	Member
Tim Brooks	July 2007 - June 2013	Executive Vice President, Research, Lifetime Entertainment Services	Member
Dr. Janet Murray	July 2007 - June 2013	Director, Graduate Studies, School of Literature, Communication & Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology	Member
Joe Urschel	July 2007 - June 2013	Executive Director/Senior VP, The Newseum	Chair, July 2011 - June 2013
Dr. Elizabeth Guider	July 2008 - June 2014	Editor The Hollywood Reporter	Member
Thomas Mattia	July 2008 - June 2015	CCO, Yale University	Chair, July 2013 - June 2015
Pamela Wallin	July 2008 - June 2009	Senior Advisor on Canada-U.S. Relations to the President, Council of the Americas	Member
Charlayne Hunter-Gault	July 2009 - June 2015	Journalist	Member
Allen Sabinson	July 2009 - June 2015	Dean, Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Drexel University	Member
Fred Young	July 2009 – present	Retired Senior Vice President, News, for Hearst-Argyle Television	Member
Steve Bryant	July 2010 – present	Senior Curator (Television), BFI National Archive	Member
Doreen Ringer-Ross	July 2010 – present	Vice President, Film-TV Relations, BMI	Member
Maureen Ryan	July 2010 – present	Senior Television Critic, AOL	Member
Dr. Barbie Zelizer	July 2010 – present	Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania	Member
Eddie Garrett	July 2011 – present	Executive Vice President, Head of Strategy, Weber Shandwick	Member
Marquita Pool-Eckert	July 2011 – present	Adjunct faculty, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University	Member
N. Bird Runningwater	July 2011 – present	Director, Native American Program, Sundance Institute	Member
Eric Deggans	July 2013 – present	TV Critic, NPR	Member
John Huey	July 2013 – present	Former Editor-in-Chief, Time, Inc.	Member
Dr. Henry Jenkins	July 2013 – present	Provost’s Professor of Communications, Journalism, Cinematic Arts & Education, University of Southern California	Member
Dr. Jonathan Gray	July 2014 – present	Professor, Media & Cultural Studies, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Member
Martha Nelson	July 2014 – present	Former Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc.	Member
Naibe Reynoso	July 2014 – present	Host and Producer, Ora TV	Member