Jim Amoss is editor of The Times-Picayune. Under the leadership of him and the Publisher, Ashton Phelps Jr., the paper won two Pulitzer Prizes in 1997 for public service and editorial cartooning, and in 2006 won two more Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Amoss graduated magna cum laude from Yale University (1969) and studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
In 2006 Amoss received the 2005 Henri Nannen Prize for his editorial work on The Times-Picayune.[1]