Columbia Names New Pulitzer Chairs To Replace Wall Street Journal Editor's Exit
Columbia named a pair of new Pulitzer Prize chairs today to replace Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal‘s managing editor, who had reached his maximum allotted tenure of nine years. And the new guns are about as far removed from the New York print scene as you can get.
Joann Byrd, a newspaper editor for 47 years, is currently writing a book about the Heppner, Ore., flood of 1903. Prior to her retirement in June 2003 from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Byrd was ombudsman at the Washington Post and had been executive editor of the Herald in Everett, Wash.,
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