Eric Newton
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Eric Newton joined the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2001 as director of Journalism Initiatives and was promoted to vice president in 2006. He was the founding managing editor of the Newseum, where he created and coordinated the content for the first museum of news.
Newton is the former managing editor of the Oakland Tribune under the ownership of Bob and Nancy Maynard, when the newspaper won 150 journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He edited weekly and small daily newspapers. He has taught high school, college and journalism professionals. He is a four-time Pulitzer Prize juror.
Newton is founding president of the First Amendment Project, a nonprofit law firm representing citizens seeking access to government records. He earned a master’s degree in international studies from the University of Birmingham, England, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism at San Francisco State University. He shared in the 2004 Peabody award for “Mosaic: World News from the Middle East.”
