VOA's Sandy Sugawara, Pulitzer juror, added to Pulitzer panel, Nov. 16

Sandy Sugawara, formerly an editor at The Washington Post and now deputy director of Voice of America, will join three other distinguished panelists at the National Press Club to discuss the Pulitzer Prize competition on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 9:30 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room.

Sugawara has spent more than three decades in journalism, starting as a UPI reporter and rising to senior management positions at the Post. She was sworn in as VOA deputy director May 2.

She has twice served on the Pulitzer jury that recommended finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for public service.

She joins Hannah Allam, a national correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers who also served as a Pulitzer juror; Robert Blau, executive editor, Bloomberg News, member of the Pulitzer Prize Board' and journalism awards consultant Debbie Hoffman, former awards coordinator for The Wall Street Journal.

The panel will offer an inside perspective on how entries are evaluated and how award winning entries are assembled. The insights offered would be useful for nearly any journalism contest.

Seating will be limited, so please reserve soon. Cost is $5 for National Press Club members, $10 for the public.

To reserve your ticket, click here.