The Graduate School of Journalism's Board of Advisors, made up of nationally prominent media executives and news professionals, provides support and curricular advice to the school and Dean Shepard. Board members, listed alphabetically, are:

Roz Abrams is a local news anchor at WCBS-TV in New York City.

Dean Baquet is Washington Bureau Chief and Assistant Managing Editor of The New York Times and former editor of The Los Angeles Times.

Merrill Brown, former editor-in-chief of MSNBC.com, is a consultant on new media. He was a reporter for The Washington Post, founding editor of Channels magazine, and editor of Court TV.

Connie Chung is a television journalist and anchor who has worked for CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN networks.

Les Hinton is CEO of Dow Jones & Co.

Jared Kushner is the publisher of New York Observer.

Michael Oreskes is managing editor for U.S. News at the Associated Press. He has served as assistant managing editor and Washington bureau chief for The New York Times and editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris.

Norman Pearlstine is chief content officer at Bloomberg News and former editor-in-chief at Time Inc. and former editor of the Wall Street Journal.

Rosanna Rosada is the publisher of El Diario/La Prensa in New York City.

Howard Rubenstein is the president of Rubenstein Associates, a public relations firm.

Arthur Siskind, the legal counsel for News Corp., is special advisor to News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch.

Richard Stengel is the managing editor of Time magazine.

Mark Whitaker senior vice-president at NBC News and former editor of Newsweek.

David Westin is the president of ABC News.

Matthew Winkler is the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News and a former reporter at The Wall Street Journal.

Mortimer Zuckerman is the chairman and publisher of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report magazine.