Board of Trustees

Jan Neuharth
Chair and chief executive officer, Freedom Forum

James W. Abbott
Chair, Freedom Forum Institute Board
Former president, University of South Dakota

Michael Coleman
Secretary, Newseum
Newspaper management consultant
Former chair, Cape republican

R. David Edelman
Director, Projects on Technology, Economy, & National Security, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Brent Jones
Editor of Culture, Training & Outreach, The Wall Street Journal

Jack Kirschenbaum
Shareholder, Gray Robinson Attorneys at Law

Malcolm R. Kirschenbaum
Lawyer and civic leader

John C. Lee IV
Former chairman, Middleburg Financial Corp.

Peter S. Prichard
Chair, Newseum
Former editor-in-chief, USA Today

Orage Quarles III
Former president and publisher, The News & Observer

Barbara Wall
Former chief legal and operating officer, current board director, Gannett Co., Inc.

Judy Woodruff
Anchor and managing editor, “PBS NewsHour”
Trustees Emeritus
Madelyn P. Jennings
Former senior vice president, personnel, Gannett Co. Inc.
Robert C. Khayat
Chancellor emeritus, University of Mississippi
Bette Bao Lord
Author
Will Norton Jr.
Oxford, Miss.
Dean, Meek School of Journalism and New Media, University of Mississippi
Charles L. Overby
Former chair and chief executive officer, Freedom Forum and Newseum