Iowa. Journalism. Gallup.
Connected by tradition and excellence.
Our panel of judges for the 2008 Award include:
 Alec M. Gallup is Chairman of The Gallup Poll in the United States, and Chairman of The Gallup Organization Ltd. in Great Britain. As well as a director of The Gallup Organisation, Europe; Gallup China and Gallup Hungary. He has been employed by Gallup since 1959 and has directed or played key roles in many of the company’s most ambitious and innovative projects. Areas of responsibility have focused on sampling procedures, question development and design, and analysis and reporting. Gallup’s educational background includes undergraduate work at Princeton University and the University of Iowa. He undertook graduate work in communications and journalism at Stanford University, and studied marketing and advertising research at New York University. His publications include The Great American Success Story (with George Gallup, Jr., Dow Jones-Irwin, 1986), "Death Penalty Sentiment in the United States" (with Hans Zeisel, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1989), Presidential Approval: A Source Book (with George Edwards, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), The Gallup Poll Cumulative Index: Public Opinion 1935-1997, Scholarly Resources, 1999), and British Political Opinion 1937-2000: The Gallup Polls (with Anthony King and Robert Wybrow, Politicos Publishing, 2001).
Paul Pohlman is Adviser to the President and a member of Poynter's leadership and management faculty. His primary area of interest is in developing newsroom leaders, and he is known for his ability to lead a group in a focused and lively conversation on leadership issues. He helps participants become aware of their leadership styles, clarify their roles and priorities, and develop their coaching and team-building skills. He also leads programs for international journalists such as the joint journalism education programs with the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Danish Journalism Center.
Lyombe “Leo” Eko is a professor at The University of Iowa’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication where he teaches courses in Media Law and Ethics, Comparative Communication and Video Production. He received his doctorate in 1997 from Southern Illinois University. Before coming to Iowa, he was an Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Media Law at the University of Maine.
He has served as a journalist and producer at the African Broadcasting Union (URTNA) in Nairobi, Kenya, and at Cameroon Radio and Television Corporation.
Professor Eko has produced several video documentaries on African topics. Three of them won honorable mention at festivals in Germany and Canada, and are part of the holdings of several American and Canadian university libraries. His research has been published in Communication Law and Policy (Journal of the Law and Policy Division of AEJMC), Communications and the Law, The International Journal of Communication Law and Policy, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, Media Law and Ethics, The International Communication Gazette, The Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Third World Studies, the Journal for Journalism in Southern Africa (Ecquid Novi), the Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, the Encyclopedia of Radio, and several book chapters.
David Redlawsk, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. Redlawsk teaches classes on political campaigns, local politics, political decision-making, voting behavior and research methods courses. He also is the Director of the University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll, a nationally recognized public opinion polling operation focused on public policy issues that affect Iowa and the nation.
Redlawsk is currently the Co-Editor Elect for Political Psychology, a journal dedicated to the analysis of the interrelationships between psychological and political processes. Redlawsk’s research interests include exploring the effects of cognition and affect on voter decision making. He has recently co-authored a book titled Civic service: Service leaning with state and local government partners (with Tom Rice, Cambridge University Press, 2009). His book, How voters decide: Information processing during an election campaign (with Richard R. Lau, Cambridge University Press, 2006) won the 2007 Alexander George Book Award for Best Book in Political Psychology and was named the Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine in 2007.
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