Tony Pederson
Tony Pederson is professor emeritus in journalism at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and managing fellow of the Overby Center.
He retired from SMU after 20 years at the university, serving 19 years as The Belo Foundation Endowed Distinguished Chair in Journalism. Before SMU, Pederson was senior vice president and executive editor of the Houston Chronicle.
Pederson served as a Pulitzer Prize juror and as chair of the Pulitzer Prize International Committee 2001-2002. His teaching focused on ethics in news media, and he taught a class on British news media and its history for 14 years in the SMU-in-London Program. He served as president of the Inter American Press Association in 1999 and as president of the accrediting council for schools of journalism and mass communication in Latin America from 2006-2018.
In 2004, he was honored by the Texas Daily Newspaper Association for "personal contributions" to the newspaper industry. He also received the James Madison Award from the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas for First Amendment work, especially dealing with the Texas Legislature on open government matters.
At SMU, he was a member of the founding board of the SMU Human Rights Program and received the "M" Award, the Thomas W. Tunks Distinguished Citizenship Award, the Meadows School of the Arts Distinguished Professor Award, and the Willis M. Tate Award.
He earned a B.A. from Baylor University and M.A. from The Ohio State University. He lives in Dallas.
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