John S. Carroll

John S. Carroll is the Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Shorenstein Center. He has been the editor of three newspapers: the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and the Lexington Herald-Leader. In 1963 he became a reporter at the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Early in his career at the Baltimore Sun, Carroll was posted to Vietnam, the Middle East and Washington. In the 1970s he was metropolitan editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. From 1971 to 1972 he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and, in 1988, held a similar fellowship at Oxford. He has received several individual awards, including Editor of the Year, from the National Press Foundation (1999), and has directed coverage that won Pulitzer Prizes at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Lexington Herald-Leader, Baltimore Sun and the Los Angeles Times. Carroll is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He graduated from Haverford College and served in the Army.