John Carroll has been the editor of three newspapers, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, and The Lexington Herald-Leader, and directed coverage that won Pulitzer Prizes at all three newspapers (five at The Los Angeles Times in 2005 alone, and a total of 13 Pulitzer Prizes during his five years as editor there). He was a Nieman Fellow in 1971-72, and in 1988, had a similar fellowship at Oxford. He has received several individual awards, including Editor of the Year, from the National Press Foundation (1999). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2006 was the Knight Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.