HAROLD JACKSON

Since 1999, Harold Jackson has been at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he is now deputy editor of the Editorial Page. Prior to joining the Inquirer, Jackson spent five years on the editorial board of the Baltimore Sun. He began his career in his hometown of Birmingham, worked for United Press International and as an assistant national editor at The Inquirer. Jackson returned to Alabama in 1987 and joined the editorial board of the Birmingham News, where he was part of a three-man team that won the Pulitzer in 1991 for editorials criticizing Alabama’s antiquated and discriminatory tax system.

The National Association of Black Journalists named Jackson Journalist of the Year in 1991. He has been a Freedom Forum journalist in residence at the University of Alabama and a visiting professor of journalism at Loyola College of Maryland.