Sandy Rowe

Sandy Rowe was a Knight Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She was editor of The Oregonian in Portland from 1993 until January 2010. Under her leadership, the newspaper won five Pulitzer Prizes including the Gold Medal for Public Service. The National Press Foundation named Rowe the Editor of the Year in 2003. In 2008, Editor & Publisher magazine named her Editor of the Year. In 2010, the American Society of Newspaper Editors awarded Rowe its National Leadership Award. Rowe chairs the Board of Visitors of The Knight Fellowships at Stanford University and is a board member of the Committee to Protect Journalists based in New York. She is a member of Willamette University’s Board of Trustees and a member of the Medill School of Journalism Board of Visitors at Northwestern University. Rowe served on the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1994–2003 and was its chair in 2002–2003. She is a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. From 1984 until April 1993, Rowe was executive editor and vice president of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia. The Virginian-Pilot won the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting, its first in 25 years, under her leadership. At the Shorenstein Center, she researched the local case for partnerships and collaboration in investigative reporting. Rowe’s year-long fellowship was funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.