Presidential Primary Panel

David M. Shribman was named executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on February 3, 2003. He came to Pittsburgh from The Boston Globe where he was assistant managing editor, columnist and Washington bureau chief.

Mr. Shribman graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1976 and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He did graduate work at Cambridge University (Cambridge, England) as a James Reynolds Scholar.

He joined The Globe after serving as national political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Prior to that, he covered Congress and national politics for The New York Times and was a member of the national staff of The Washington Star. A native of Salem, Mass., he began his career at The Buffalo Evening News, where he worked on the city staff before being assigned to the paper's Washington bureau.

Mr. Shribman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1995 for his coverage of Washington and the American political scene. His column, "My Point," is syndicated nationally. He is a regular panelist on the PBS show "Washington Week in Review" and a frequent analyst for BBC radio. His "I Remember My Teacher," a tribute to the nation's great educators, was published in April 2002. He has lectured at universities and colleges around the country.

Mr. Shribman is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College and of the Board of Visitors of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth.  He is a member of the selection committee for the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award given by Colby College (Waterville, Maine), and is a member of the national board of the Calvin Coolidge Foundation in Plymouth, Vt.

He has been married to Cindy Skrzycki, a Bloomberg financial columnist, for 28 years, and they live in Pittsburgh with their two daughters, Elizabeth and Natalie.

Dr. Dianne Bystrom
Director, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics (Iowa State University)

Dr. Dianne Bystrom is the director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University. She has personal and professional experience in covering, working in, and studying political campaigns. She earned a B.A. in Journalism in 1975 from Kearney (NE) State College, an M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication in 1982, and a Ph.D. in Communication in 1995 from the University of Oklahoma. Her current research interests focus on (1) the styles and strategies used by female and male political candidates in their television advertising, Web sites and speeches and (2) the coverage of women candidates and political leaders by the media. She is a frequent commentator about political and women's issues for state and national media.

Dr. Bystrom is a co-author, co-editor and contributor to 12 books including Gender and Elections (2006), Gender and Candidate Communication (2004), Communicating Politics (2005), The Handbook of Political Communication Research (2004), The Millennium Election (2003), Anticipating Madam President (2003), Women Transforming Congress (2002), The Electronic Election (1999), and The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill-Thomas Hearings (1996). She has written several journal articles on women and politics. She currently serves as secretary/treasurer of the Political Communication Division of the American Political Science Association.

In addition to directing the Center, Dr. Bystrom teaches courses in leadership, women and politics, and political campaigns for Women's Studies, Political Science and the Honors Program as an adjunct assistant professor of political science. Before joining Iowa State in July 1996, she worked for 17 years at the University of Oklahoma in public relations, higher education administration and political communication.

Mike Pride
Editor, Concord Monitor

Mike Pride has been editor of the Concord Monitor since 1983. Prior to that, he served as its managing editor. Under his editorship the Monitor has won the New England Newspaper of the Year Award 19 times, as well as numerous national awards for excellence. The paper has been cited by Time magazine and the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the best papers in the country.

Before joining the Monitor, Mr. Pride was city editor of the Clearwater Sun and the Tallahassee Democrat. A graduate of the University of South Florida, he served as a Russian linguist in the Army during the late 1960s and began his journalism career as a sports writer at the Tampa Tribune.

Mr. Pride was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1984-85. He won the National Press Foundation's editor of the year award in 1987 for directing the Monitor's coverage of the Challenger disaster and later the Yankee Quill Award for contributions to New England journalism.

In 2004, Mr. Pride was Weinstein scholar-in-residence at Gettysburg College, where he co-taught a course in presidential politics. He has also been a lecturer and tour guide at the Civil War Institute at the college. In 2005, he was a Hoover media fellow at Stanford University.

Mr. Pride is a former chairman of the Small Newspapers Committee of the American Society of Newspapers Editors and also served on the society's writing awards board. He is a member of the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award committee at Colby College and the Sarah Josepha Hale Award committee in Newport, N.H.  Mr. Pride has also been a member of the Pulitzer board since 1999.

He is the co-author of My Brave Boys, a Civil War history, and Too Dead to Die, the memoir of a Bataan Death March survivor, and the co-editor of The New Hampshire Century.