2012 Selection Committee

 James F. Hoge, Jr., (Chair) Counselor, Council on Foreign Relations, and Chairman, Human Rights Watch.

 David Finkel, National Enterprise Editor; Washington Post, 2010 Bernstein Award recipient for his book The Good Soldiers.  He is currently working on a new book about the after-war and attempts by mentally wounded soldiers, ex-soldiers and family members to regain a sense of normalcy.

Brooke Kroeger, Professor and Director of Global and Joint Program Studies at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she was department chair and the Institute's founding director, 2005-2011.

Lynn Povich, Board Member, International Women's Media Foundation, Advisory Board of the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch.

Jack Rosenthal, former New York Times editor.

Elaine Sciolino, Correspondent, Paris Bureau, The New York Times.

Calvin Sims, Program Officer, Journalism, The Ford Foundation.