In collaboration with the National Arts Journalism Program (Columbia University School of Journalism), the Pulitzer hosted a symposium on May 1-2, 2003 on the topic of arts and cultural news coverage. The event was an unprecedented meeting of top-level executives from two dozen regional newspapers (including the Arizona Daily Star, Chicago Tribune, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Dallas Morning News, the Denver Post, the Detroit News, the Kansas City Star, the Los Angeles Times, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the New Orleans Times Picayne, the Oregonian, the Seattle Times, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch). The goal of the discussions was to enhance the prospect of timely, accurate and incisive cultural coverage that is relevant to readers. The meeting suggested new measures and resources from which editors and writers can draw on in improving their papers’ cultural reporting and criticism. Speakers included Kathy Halbreich, Director, Walker Art Center; Liz Lerman, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; Robert Lynch, President, Americans for the Arts; Vincent Schoemehl, ex-Mayor, St. Louis and President, Grand Center Inc.; Stephen Tepper, Deputy Director, Princeton University Center for Cultural Policy Studies; and Laysha Ward, Vice-President of Community Relations, Target Corporation.