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Jim Amoss, editor of The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, will deliver the commencement address at the Graduate School of Journalism ceremony on Wednesday, May 17 at 3:00 p.m. The ceremony will be held in Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall on the Morningside campus.
Amoss and his staff won two Pulitzer Prizes this year for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina: one for public service and a second for breaking news reporting.
Named the National Press Foundation's 1997 Editor of the Year, Amoss has been editor of the Times-Picayune since July 1990. He had been associate editor of the paper since 1988. Under his leadership, the paper also won the 1997 Pulitzer Prizes in both public service and editorial cartooning. They were the paper's first Pulitzers since its inception in 1837.
Amoss' journalism career began in 1974 as an investigative reporter for The States-Item, a New Orleans afternoon daily that merged with the Times-Picayune in 1980. He was then named chief of the Times-Picayune's St. Bernard bureau that year, city editor in 1982 and metropolitan editor in 1983.
A native of New Orleans, Amoss spent part of his growing-up years in Germany and Belgium. In 1969, he graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and went on to study as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, specializing in German literature and the work of Thomas Mann.
Now a member of the Louisiana Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, Amoss is also on the board of visitors of the Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University. He previously served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in 1994, 1995, 1999 and 2000. Currently, he is a member of the Associated Press Managing Editors and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in May 2003.
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