Meet our 2025 Collier Prize Jurors

Peter Bhatia

Peter is a multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning editor who has spearheaded meaningful journalism and digital advances at numerous news organizations across the country. He is a seven-time Pulitzer juror. He is the first journalist of South Asian descent to lead a major daily newspaper in the U.S., running The Oregonian from 2010 to 2014. He currently serves as chief executive officer of Houston Landing, an independent, nonpartisan news organization based in Houston, Tx.

Aminda (Mindy) Marqués Gonzalez 

Mindy is vice president / executive editor at Simon & Schuster, a role she took on in 2020 after serving as publisher and executive editor of The Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald. During her tenure, The Miami Herald received two Pulitzer Prizes and was a finalist four times. Award-winning work included the nationally acclaimed investigation into millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his cohorts. Marqués received the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year award in 2019 and is a former co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Among the books she has published: New York Times bestsellers True Gretch by trailblazing Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, Roctogenarians by CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, Rebel Rising by Australian actress Rebel Wilson, Our Hidden Conversations by award-winning journalist Michele Norris, and Dinners with Ruth by NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg. 

Bill Grueskin 

Bill is an award-winning editor, digital innovator and professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where he was dean of academic affairs for six years. He worked as a reporter and editor in Italy, started a weekly paper on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, then moved to Florida. On his first day as city editor at The Miami Herald,  Hurricane Andrew hit Miami-Dade County, and the Herald’s coverage of the storm won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service. 

He joined The Wall Street Journal in 1995 and in June 2001, became managing editor of WSJ.com. He oversaw the staff during and after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. He also has served as an executive editor at Bloomberg News. He joined Columbia University in 2008 as academic dean, and led a curriculum transformation designed to give students flexibility to focus on skills ranging from video to data visualization to long-form digital journalism.

Mira Lowe 

Mira is the chief academic and administrative officer of the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication at Florida A&M University. She previously served as assistant dean for student experiences at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, where she advocated for continuous improvement of hands-on learning, and inspired innovation, experimentation and relevance across the breadth of student experiences. At CNN Digital, Lowe was senior editor for features and oversaw various editorial initiatives, partnerships, and multiplatform opportunities. She led an editorial team that focused daily on how to best tell stories and engage audiences via text, photos, video, interactives and social media. Before CNN, she was editor-in-chief of JET magazine, the first woman to lead the venerable African-American newsweekly.

Josh Margolin 

Josh is chief investigative reporter at ABC News, based in New York. In that role, he coordinates breaking news and crime coverage for all programs. His work has been recognized with six Emmys, two Edward R Murrow awards and one Pulitzer Prize. He started his journalism career in the New York metro area, eventually working his way up to the New York Post and Newark Star-Ledger, where he led the team that won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. In 2011, he co-wrote The Jersey Sting, a bestselling book about one of the biggest political corruption cases in American history. He began doing investigative reporting for ABC News in 2013, and became ABC’s chief investigative reporter in 2019.

Sonya Ross 

Sonya is founder and editor in chief of Black Women Unmuted, a digital media outlet devoted to covering the political engagement of Black women in the United States. She founded it in 2019 after a 33-year career at The Associated Press, where she was  AP’s first Black woman White House reporter and, in 1999, the first Black woman elected to the board of the White House Correspondents Association. She was the pool reporter aboard Air Force One with President George W. Bush during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In 2010, she established specialty race & ethnicity coverage at AP that transformed the industry’s approach to gathering news for and about people of color. Sonya is in the Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame, DC Pro Chapter, the 2023 recipient of the Washington Association of Black Journalists’ Legacy Award and the founding chair of the political reporting task force for NABJ.

Cheryl W. Thompson 

Cheryl is investigative correspondent and senior editor at NPR, an associate professor of journalism at George Washington University and former president of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). Before NPR, she spent 22 years with The Washington Post, covering law enforcement, political corruption, guns and the White House during Obama’s first term. Her stories include a national investigation that found nearly one person a week died after being Tasered by police, part of the Post’s year-long series on police shootings that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She was the reporting coach on NPR’s “No Compromise” podcast, which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting.  She also was part of team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in the aftermath of 9/11. She is a two-time Pulitzer Prize juror.

Other honors: The 2024 Legacy Award from the Washington Association of Black Journalists, an Emmy, five National Headliners, a Freedom of Information Medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors, four Salute to Excellence awards from NABJ, and a Society of Professional Journalists Dateline award for feature writing. 

Trish Wilson 

Trish is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter and editor who has reported and led teams of journalists at the Washington Post, the Associated Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Raleigh News & Observer. A Nicaraguan-American, Trish graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown and earned a master’s in Latin American studies at the University of Florida. At The Post, she launched their climate team, steering it to a 2020 Pulitzer with their groundbreaking “2C: Beyond the Limit” series. Before joining The Post, Trish led international investigations at the Associated Press, where her team’s work on the war in Yemen won a Pulitzer Prize in 2019. Teams Trish has led have also been honored as Pulitzer finalists four times, on topics ranging from the United States’ fentanyl crisis to the human cost of the U.S. defeat of ISIS at Mosul.