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John Walcott has worked for Knight Ridder, Inc., America's second-largest newspaper publisher, since 1997. Knight Ridder publishes 32 daily newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and the San Jose Mercury News, with 8.5 million readers daily and 11.0 million on Sundays. As Washington bureau chief, John directs more than 30 full-time employees in Washington, as well as 10 overseas bureaus in Baghdad, Beijing, Berlin, Cairo, Jerusalem, Mexico City, Moscow, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. His responsibilities include national, foreign and Washington news coverage in print and online, as well as information technology, capital and operating budgets and personnel. John has been chief diplomatic correspondent at Newsweek magazine, national security correspondent at The Wall Street Journal and foreign and national editor of U.S. News & World Report, and he is an adjunct professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has served as senior counselor to a Defense Department commission on basic training in the military, and as a consultant to The Advisory Board Company in Washington, he prepared a report on leadership development and information technology in the U.S. military as part of a study for corporate clients of best practices in the field. John has been the recipient of numerous journalism awards, including the National Press Club Freedom of the Press Award and Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence, the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting and a National Headliner Award. With David C. Martin of CBS News, he co- authored "Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism" (New York, Harper & Row, 1988), and in 2005, Washingtonian magazine named him one of Washington's "50 best and most influential journalists." John received a B.A. in English from Williams College in 1971. | 