David M. Shribman has been named to the National Advisory Board. He is the Executive Editor of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. He was assistant managing editor and Washington bureau chief of the Boston Globe. He is one of the leading journalists in America and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1995 for his coverage of Washington and the American political scene. His column, "National Perspective," is syndicated in more than 50 newspapers nationally. He has also served as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Star.

A native of Salem, Mass., he began his career at The Buffalo Evening News, where he worked on the city staff before being assigned to the paper's Washington bureau.

He graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1976 and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He did graduate work at Cambridge University, England, as a James Reynolds Scholar.

Shribman is a regular panelist on the PBS show "Washington Week in Review" and a frequent analyst for BBC radio. His "I Remember My Teacher," a tribute to the nation's great educators, was published in April 2002.

He has lectured at universities and colleges around the country.

Shribman is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College and a former member of the Board of Visitors of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth.

He has been married to Cindy Skrzycki, a Washington Post financial columnist, for 24 years and they live in Washington, D.C., with their two daughters, Elizabeth and Natalie.