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CHRIS ADAMS is on Knight Ridder's national investigative unit and previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune. A 2003 series on off-label drug use, with Alison Young, recently won the National Headliner Award. Prior projects won the George Polk Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, an IRE Award, the National Headliner Award, and the Livingston Award, among others. He was a Pulitzer finalist in 1996 and 1999, and in 2000 shared the Pulitzer with five Journal colleagues for stories on Pentagon spending.

JOE ADAMS of The Florida Times-Union is an editorial writer and op-ed page editor who coaches journalists on how to use public records for success. Among others, he has presented workshops for the Society of Professional Journalists, National Writers' Workshop, Special Libraries Association, the Florida Press Club and various newspapers. He is author of The Florida Public Records Handbook and hosts the www.idiganswers.com Web site, which highlights public records use and Florida open government news.

PAUL ADRIAN covers the city beat for KDFW-Dallas/Fort Worth. He previously served as an investigative reporter at the News of Texas, WTNH-Connecticut and at WBNS-Columbus, Ohio. Before those stations, he reported for WAVE-Louisville, Ky., and KETK-Tyler/Longview, Texas, where he began his journalism career in 1989. Adrian is a member of IRE's board of directors.

PAUL AKER recently became bureau chief for KING-Seattle, where he does general assignment, enterprise and investigative reporting. He has won numerous state and regional awards for investigative reporting. Aker has completed a year of law school and applies that knowledge to investigations that hold government agencies accountable to the people they serve.

AMES ALEXANDER is an investigative reporter for The Charlotte Observer. He has won more than 30 journalism awards. Among other things, he has written about criminals who have taught in North Carolina's public schools; the lives endangered by slow ambulance services; and the rampant problems in home construction in the Carolinas.

DAVID ALLISON has been editor of Atlanta Business Chronicle since 1998. He has been with the Chronicle since 1984, serving as a researcher, reporter, Industry Focus editor and managing editor.

JOHN W. ALLMAN is a projects team reporter with The Tampa Tribune. He has received numerous state and national awards for investigative reporting, including the George Polk, Roy Howard and National Headliner. Since joining the Tribune in 2002, he has written extensively about public corruption, including allegations of financial mismanagement by a Tampa-based church organization.

KEN ALLTUCKER covers growth and development and the census for The Cincinnati Enquirer. He joined the Enquirer in 2000 and previously worked as a reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal and The Sun in Bremerton, Wash.

NANCY AMONS oversees the investigative team and specializes in computer-assisted reporting at WSMV-Nashville. Among her honors are two National Headliner awards, a Green Eyeshade award, nine Associated Press awards, a Silver Gavel, an Iris and four Emmy awards. In 1995, she was named broadcast journalist of the year by the Tennessee AP and by the national chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

JOHN ARCHIBALD is database editor and investigative team leader at The Birmingham News, where he has worked for 16 years. He has written extensively about problems in courts and the justice system.

DAVID ARMSTRONG is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He was previously a reporter for The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Brockton (Mass.) Enterprise.

INGRID ARNESEN covers international and national breaking news and is a senior producer at CNN's investigative unit. She was previously a senior producer for CNN & Time, producing numerous long-form investigative pieces. In 2002, she received the National Headliners award for an in-depth investigation of Al Qaeda's structure based on documents she found and collected in Kabul shortly after the fall of the Taliban government. She has received a Peabody Award, the Alfred I. Dupont Golden Baton, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Overseas Press Club Award and the British Royal Television Prize in 2003. She previously worked for CBS News and ABC News.

CHRISTOPHER ASPLEN is the former executive director of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. As part of its mission to maximize the value of DNA evidence in the criminal justice system, the commission considered post-conviction DNA analysis a key element of its work. Asplen lives in London and works for the government relations firm Smith Alling Lane, consulting with foreign governments and law enforcement agencies on the use of DNA technology.

LAURA AYO is the computer-assisted reporter for The Knoxville News-Sentinel. She previously covered federal and state courts, federal agencies and education for the News-Sentinel and papers in Louisiana. She is the recipient of the Malcolm Law Memorial Award for Best Investigative Reporting. She is also the recipient of a Society of Professional Journalists award for a series on dangerous intersections.

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PETER BANIAK is the local and regional editor at the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. Reporters on his team cover city hall, growth and development, urban affairs, two dozen regional counties and religion. Prior to becoming an editor in 2001, he covered city hall, growth issues and state politics for the Herald-Leader.

DONALD L. BARLETT is an editor-at-large for Time Inc. and half of the longest-running investigative reporting team in America. Since 1971, he and writing partner James B. Steele have tackled issues including the IRS, the dismantling of America's middle class, corporate welfare, and the energy crisis. They have received virtually every major national journalism award, including two Pulitzers, two National Magazine Awards and five IRE Awards.

DAVID BARNES is director of public affairs for the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Transportation and an associate member of IRE. He previously covered transportation issues for two trade publications. In addition, Barnes was projects reporter for the Easton, Pa., Express and has worked for newspapers and wire services in New Jersey, California and Massachusetts. He also worked on Capitol Hill and for a national trade association.

JULIAN E. BARNES is a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report. Although assigned to the Pentagon beat, he has written extensively about education for the past three years as part of the U.S. News investigative team, most recently examining the student loan industry. His story on the development of the new SAT won a 2002 Education Writers Association first-place prize. He previously worked for The New York Times and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

FRANK BASS has been the director of computer-assisted reporting at The Associated Press since 1997. He has worked at The Wall Street Journal/Texas Journal, Houston Post and Alabama Journal, where he shared the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting. Bass is an adjunct journalism professor at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

MAUD BEELMAN joins The Dallas Morning News in July as assistant metro editor for specialty/investigations. She was the founding director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Her team investigations have won a George Polk Award, SPJ's Sigma Delta Chi award and this year's IRE Certificate for online reporting. Beelman has reported for The Boston Globe and The Associated Press. Beelman is a fellow of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, a contributor to Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know and she works with the Committee of Concerned Journalists as a newsroom trainer.

VINCE BEISER is a Los Angeles-based freelance magazine writer specializing in criminal justice and other social issues. He contributes regularly to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and several other publications. He has hunted down stories from the Balkans to the Middle East on assignments for U.S. News & World Report, The Village Voice, The New Republic and The Nation. His work has been honored by IRE, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the National Mental Health Association and many other institutions.

BRET BELL has served as city government reporter at the Savannah Morning News for the past four years. In 2003, the Georgia Associated Press awarded him Story of the Year honors. He previously was reporter and then news editor at the Durango Herald in Colorado, and a reporter at the Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times in Massachusetts.

JENNI BERGAL is a senior writer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, where she covers white-collar crime and fraud for the business section. Previously, she was an investigative reporter who authored more than a dozen long-term projects at the Sun-Sentinel. Bergal's numerous state and national awards include the Worth Bingham Prize for Distinguished Reporting, the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and the National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award. She has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice.

ALAN BERLOW is a freelance reporter whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The American Prospect, The New Republic and elsewhere. He is the author of Dead Season: A Story of Murder and Revenge, and is the former Southeast Asia correspondent for NPR. He produced the American RadioWorks documentary "Deadly Decisions," which dealt with the conduct of jurors in capital murder trials.

BRETT BLACKLEDGE is a senior reporter with The Birmingham News. He does general assignment and special project work, with an emphasis on government. He previously worked with the Mobile Register in Alabama, The Journal Newspapers in Virginia and Maryland, and The Associated Press. Blackledge has covered education, crime, state and local government, as well as covering federal issues as a reporter in Washington, D.C.

DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON is The Wall Street Journal's bureau chief in Atlanta, where he supervises 12 reporters and editors responsible for coverage of 10 southeastern states and more than 5,000 publicly traded companies. Blackmon managed the Journal's coverage of the fraud scandal at HealthSouth Corp., and much of the paper's reporting on the identities of the 9/11 hijackers. Prior to joining the Journal, he was a reporter at the Atlanta Constitution. His stories have been recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists. Blackmon's first book, examining the persistence of slavery in the U.S. after abolition, is scheduled for publication next year.

FRANK A. BLETHEN is publisher and chief executive officer of The Seattle Times and president of Blethen Corporation. He joined the family business full-time in 1968 and held a variety of training positions at The Seattle Times until 1974 when he joined company's Walla Walla Union-Bulletin as publisher. He returned to The Seattle Times in 1980 and held executive positions in circulation, advertising, marketing and labor. In 1998, Blethen was awarded the first Edward R. Murrow Award from the Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University for "Exemplifying the Murrow Tradition in Print Journalism" and he was inducted into the Washington State Hall for Journalism Achievement . The Seattle Times has won three Pulitzer Prizes, as well as many other awards, during his tenure as publisher.

DAVID BOARDMAN is the managing editor of The Seattle Times. As an editor for The Times, he has directed two Pulitzer Prize-winning team projects and edited six other stories that were Pulitzer finalists. He has been the recipient of numerous other major national awards, including the Goldsmith Prize in Investigative Reporting from Harvard University, the Worth Bingham Prize in Investigative Reporting, the IRE Award and the Associated Press Managing Editors Public Service Award. Boardman has been a reporter and editor at several papers in the Northwest. He has served as a member of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Board and twice as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes. He is vice president of IRE's board of directors.

WALT BOGDANICH is an assistant investigations editor at The New York Times. He previously produced investigative reports for 60 Minutes and ABC News and twice shared the duPont-Columbia University award. As a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Bogdanich was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for his expose of substandard medical laboratories. He is a three-time winner of the George Polk Award and he has received the Overseas Press Club Award.

ZIVA BRANSTETTER is the projects editor of the Tulsa World, where she writes and edits investigative and computer-assisted projects as part of a three-person team. She has been an editor and reporter at The Philadelphia Daily News and the Tulsa Tribune. She has won state and national awards for coverage of the juvenile justice system, environmental issues, deaths in nursing homes and work on open-records issues. Her most recent investigations include stories about sex offenders living in nursing homes and violence at a juvenile detention center that has led to a federal investigation.

MARK BRAYKOVICH is business editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he oversees a staff of 35 reporters and editors covering metro Atlanta's business community. Before joining the AJC in December 2001 he was assistant managing editor/local news for the Akron Beacon Journal and senior editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer, where he worked as a business reporter, investigative reporter and projects editor.

CLINT BREWER is managing editor of The Lebanon (Tenn.) Democrat, a paper that won the 2004 Malcolm Law Memorial Award for Investigative Reporting from the Tennessee Associated Press. While a reporter for the Democrat, Brewer was a four-time winner of the Malcolm Law Award. He worked as an editor for Gannett's Middle Tennessee newspaper group before forming his own company and purchasing the weekly Mt. Juliet News. He sold it to Sandusky Newspapers in 2002. Brewer is a regional director for the Society of Professional Journalists and a director for the Tennessee Press Association. His work covering politics and economic development have appeared in The Knoxville Journal, The Tennessean, The Nashville Scene, the Nashville City Paper and Tennessee Politics.

STEPHEN B. BRIGHT is director of the Southern Center for Human Rights and teaches courses on the death penalty and criminal law at the Harvard and Yale law schools. The Center's main concerns are the quality of legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, the death penalty and other punishments, human rights in prisons, jails and other institutions and judicial independence.

MIKE BROOKS is a correspondent for CNN as a terrorism and law enforcement analyst. In February 2003, he helped the network cover the space shuttle Columbia disaster. In 2002, Brooks was a member of the CNN investigative team awarded the Press Club's National Headliner Award for "outstanding continuing coverage" of the 9/11 attacks. Brooks served 26 years with Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department, retiring in 1999 as a detective with the intelligence branch. He represented the department on the FBI's joint terrorism task force.

JAMES BRUGGERS covers environmental issues at The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal. He previously worked at newspapers in Montana, Alaska, Washington and California. He is a board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and was president of SEJ from 2000 to 2002. He was a Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1998-99, and recently won the Thomas Stokes Award for energy and environmental coverage from the National Press Foundation, as well as the Best of Gannett competition for 2003 in the beat and individual achievement categories.

RICK BRUNDRETT is the state judicial writer at The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. He covers state appellate and local courts, as well as other legal issues affecting South Carolina. He also is correspondent for Court TV. Previously, he worked for 12 years at his hometown paper, The Herald-Palladium, in St. Joseph, Mich., where he was mainly a police reporter.

JULIE BRYANT is industry focus editor at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. She was the health care/life sciences reporter there. She has won awards from the Medical Association of Atlanta for a series about doctors' frustrations with the managed care system and an Associated Press award for an investigative series she co-wrote. Bryant is a 2002 fellow of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, where she completed a course on stem cell research. She has worked at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Tulsa World and radio stations in Greenville, S.C., and Tulsa, Okla.

DAVID BURNHAM is the co-founder and co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. TRAC provides oversight and information about the operations of the federal government. As a reporter and book writer, Burnham has specialized in the critical examination of numerous government enforcement bureaucracies.

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SUSAN CANDIOTTI is a national correspondent at CNN based in Miami. She was part of a team that won first-place honors from the National Headliners Awards in 2002 for continuing coverage of the 9/11 attacks and shared in an Emmy for CNN's reporting on the Oklahoma City bombing. Candiotti was a lead reporter on the Elián Gonzalez case and covers breaking news in the United States and overseas, including Haiti, Colombia, Peru, Cuba and Central America. Prior to joining CNN, Candiotti specialized in investigative reporting at the ABC and CBS affiliates in Miami.

PETER C. CANFIELD is with the Atlanta office of Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, and specializes in media law and litigation. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, After clerking for Hon. Frank M. Johnson Jr. and Hon. Myron Thompson, he served as an attorney with the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division. He is a founding director of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation and a cochair of the biannual media law conference of the Newspaper Association of America, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Media Law Resource Center.

CHRIS CANTERGIANI is the investigative producer for WSB-Atlanta. He previously worked for seven years at KOB-Albuquerque, N.M. He has worked in newsrooms in Boston and Los Angeles. Cantergiani has won numerous awards, including three Emmys in the Rocky Mountain Region, four Emmys in Atlanta, the regional 1999 RTNDA award for Investigative Journalism and a national award for documentary production.

TONY CAPACCIO is the defense reporter for Bloomberg News. He joined Bloomberg from Defense Week where he covered the Army, Air Force And Navy. He has won awards from the Newsletter Publishers Foundation and National Press Club. He has worked as an investigative reporter for columnist Jack Anderson's Washington Merry-Go-Round.

RUSSELL CAROLLO is a special projects reporter for the Dayton Daily News, where he started working in 1990. He has previously worked at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash.; The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss.; and the Texarkana Gazette in Texas.

JOHN S. CARROLL is editor of the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was editor of The (Baltimore) Sun, editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald and later the Lexington Herald-Leader, and held several editing positions at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Earlier in his career, Carroll worked at The Sun as a local reporter, Vietnam correspondent, Middle East correspondent and White House correspondent. He started his newspaper career at the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a Visiting Journalist Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House at Oxford University, an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow and received the American Society of Newspaper Editors Leadership Award this year. He has served on the Pulitzer Prize board and was chairman in 2002.

MATT CARROLL is a member of The Boston Globe's spotlight team, specializing in computer-assisted reporting. He worked as a copy editor on the business desk for two years. As a reporter, Carroll has covered real estate and the MetroWest area. Carroll was part of a team that won a 2002 IRE Medal for its investigation into decades of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests and the cover-up of their crimes by church leadership. The series was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Selden Ring Award, the Goldsmith Prize and other honors.

DEBBIE CENZIPER is an investigative reporter for The Miami Herald, where she spent 2003 detailing the massive failures of Miami-Dade's school construction program. Before joining the Herald, she was an investigative reporter at The Charlotte Observer, writing about violent deaths in mental hospitals, the hidden costs of high-stakes testing, and breakdowns in North Carolina's Medical Examiner's system, which won the 2002 Green Eyeshade Best in Print award. The school construction series won a 2003 IRE Certificate.

ROSE CIOTTA is the computer-assisted reporting editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. She has co-authored award-winning series on police brutality and drunken driving. She's on a team investigating corruption in Philadelphia city hall. She has been a projects editor for a 36-page Report Card on the Schools and projects on racial achievement gap and suburban policing. She was awarded a Knight fellowship to attend Stanford University. She is a former member of IRE's board of directors.

DR. MITCHELL L. COHEN is director of the newly created Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cohen, most recently director of the Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, has been involved in investigations and research addressing emerging infections from legionnaire's disease, toxic shock syndrome, and E. coli infections, to Hantavirus and SARS.

SARAH COHEN is a database editor for The Washington Post. Recent stories have included an investigation of Washington, D.C.'s guardianship system and the region's homeland security spending. She shared in the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, an IRE Medal and other awards for "The District's Lost Children," which documented official neglect of children. She has been a training director for IRE and NICAR and a reporter in Florida.

BRIAN COLLISTER specializes in investigative reporting at WOAI-San Antonio. He has worked at stations in Austin, Phoenix, Bryan, and Lake Charles. His awards include four regional Emmys, including one in 2003 for his investigation into a city councilman's questionable billing and his relationship with a judge. He is a member of the Texas Freedom of Information Foundation.

REBECCA CORBETT is enterprise editor in the Washington bureau of The New York Times. Previously she was assistant managing editor/projects at The (Baltimore) Sun, and before that worked at the Journal Inquirer in Connecticut and the Morning Sentinel in central Maine. She has edited several projects that won Pulitzer Prizes, as well as some finalists, and projects that have won the IRE Award, George Polk Award, Selden Ring Prize and AAAS award.

KEVIN CORCORAN is senior statehouse reporter for The Indianapolis Star, where he has covered the state's executive, judicial and legislative branches for the past five years, making regular use of state and local data. He's been at the Capitol in Indianapolis since late 1991, also working for The Times of Northwest Indiana and The (Fort Wayne) News-Sentinel. He's won local, state and national awards, including the George Polk Award and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel.

CALLIE CROSSLEY is a broadcast journalist whose professional portfolio includes commentary, media criticism, as well as producing and directing television and film. She appears weekly on the WGBH-Boston show, "Beat the Press," a program examining media coverage. Crossley has been a producer for ABC News 20/20 and was a producer on the PBS documentary series "Eyes on the Prize." Crossley produced the documentary while working for Blackside Inc. a film production company for which she most recently served as senior series producer on the 2003 series "This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys."

CARLA CROWDER covers prisons, parole, juvenile justice and child welfare for The Birmingham News. She previously worked as a police reporter for the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser and the Albuquerque Journal and a general assignment reporter with the Rocky Mountain News.

ANDREW CURLISS covers city hall in Raleigh, N.C., for The News & Observer, after covering city hall and police in Durham. A winner of numerous statewide awards, he has worked at The Dallas Morning News and Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.

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BERT DALMER is a special-projects reporter with The Des Moines Register. His recent work led to revelations on state homeland-security grants and drug tests in the National Guard. His stories on prosecutors' strong-arm check-collection tactics and the politicizing of a racetrack grant program were cited in the Register's 2001 AP Freedom of Information Award and for first-place coverage of local government by the Iowa Press Association. He began his professional career with the City News Bureau of Chicago in 1995.

PAUL D'AMBROSIO is the investigations editor for the Asbury Park Press who led the reporting team for the "Profiting from Public Service" series. D'Ambrosio's articles have won more than two dozen national awards including the Selden Ring, Headliner and Farfel prizes, and he has been twice named New Jersey's Journalist of the Year by the state's press association.

CHRIS DAVIS is senior editor of investigations at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He has spent much of his seven years at the Herald-Tribune covering the education beat and then serving as editor for a five-person education team.

MIKE DEVLIN is vice president/news for KHOU-Houston, where he has been executive news director since June 1998. During his tenure, KHOU has won two duPont-Columbia awards, two Peabody Awards for investigative reporting and was named Station of the Year by Electronic Media. Devlin was previously news director at KATU-Portland, Ore., where, under his leadership, the station earned the Edward R. Murrow award for continuous coverage of winter floods. Earlier, Devlin was KATU's managing editor. He has worked at stations in Dallas/Fort Worth; Richmond, Va.; Huntsville, Ala.; and Nashville.

DAVID DIETZ specializes in investigations and enterprise at Bloomberg Markets magazine. In a 35-year career, mostly at newspapers, he has won more than 20 national and regional reporting awards for investigating corporate fraud, judicial misconduct and civic corruption. He was formerly a special projects editor and reporter at TheStreet.com, a financial news Web site, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Dietz is chairman of IRE's board of directors.

STEPHEN K. DOIG is interim director of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where he holds the Knight Chair in Journalism, specializing in computer-assisted reporting. Before joining ASU in 1996, he was associate editor/research of The Miami Herald. Projects on which he worked at The Herald have won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the IRE Award, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and other awards. He is a member of IRE's board of directors.

DAVID DONALD is training director for IRE and NICAR. He conducts workshops on investigative reporting and CAR for print and broadcast journalists around the country. He worked 12 years at newspapers, most recently at the Savannah Morning News where he oversaw the CAR and research programs. He also worked on the education beat, projects team and has taught high school and college.

ANN DOSS HELMS is a reporter for The Charlotte Observer. She started covering Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in 2002, just as the district launched a choice-based student assignment plan to replace court-ordered desegregation, creating a large number of schools where virtually all students are minority and low-income. Helms has analyzed student achievement at high poverty schools, extreme crowding at suburban schools and whether all families really have choices in the "choice plan."

JAIMI DOWDELL is a data analyst in the IRE and NICAR Database Library. She is completing her master's degree research in social network analysis and investigative reporting at the Missouri School Of Journalism.

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CAROLYN EDDS is the Eugene S. Pulliam research director for IRE and NICAR. She directs IRE's Resource Center, assisting members with research needs, maintaining Web resources and managing the annual IRE Awards. She has been a news researcher with the San Antonio Express-News and the news research manager at the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg, S.C. In mid-July she starts a new job as a news researcher at the St. Petersburg Times.

JOE ELLIS is the investigative producer at KDFW-Dallas/Fort Worth. He is a computer-assisted reporting specialist and concentrates mainly on courts and law, public safety issues, state and local government, consumer affairs and open records/FOIA. Ellis has worked in Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas and earned numerous awards for his work, including two Emmys, two RTNDA Murrows, multiple Associated Press awards, and was an IRE Award finalist in 2002.

JOHN ERICKSON is the assistant managing editor for news and projects at the Dayton Daily News. He was also projects editor at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1994 to 1996. At the Daily News he has managed three projects that were Pulitzer Prize finalists, including a series by Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith on medical malpractice in the U.S. military that won the Pulitzer for national reporting in 1998.

BILL ESTEP is a bureau reporter for the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. He has worked at the paper for more than 18 years in a variety of assignments, including projects reporter and state-capital bureau chief. Estep was part of a team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1990; won the Knight Ridder Award for Journalism Excellence in 1998; and was part of a team that won the 2004 Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Award, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Atlanta SPJ Pro Chapter.

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MIKE FABEY is the military reporter at the Savannah Morning News. Previously the investigative reporter for the Daily Press in Newport News, Va., he won state awards for stories about the country's builder of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and submarines. He spent about five years traveling throughout Latin America, freelancing for several publications. He's won more than two dozen awards for coverage of issues ranging from botched maintenance of the Panama Canal to failed enforcement of pesticide regulations.

DOUGLAS FARAH has spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for The Washington Post and other publications. He is on leave, working as a senior fellow at the National Strategy Information Center, writing about terrorist finances and studying the development of armed groups in the world. His new book, Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror, traces the role of diamonds and gold in the terrorist financial structure.

MARK FAZLOLLAH is a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. For the past eight months, he has covered the federal investigation of corruption in Philadelphia's City Hall. He has worked on several projects that won national awards, including the Selden Ring Award for a 1999 series on the underreporting of rape and the Roy Howard Award for a 1998 series on the underreporting of crime in Philadelphia, as well as the George Polk Award and the National Association of Black Journalists' award for investigative reporting. Before joining the Inquirer, he reported from Latin America.

BILL FINCH is environment editor of the Mobile (Ala.) Register. Recently the paper's environmental coverage has received the John B. Oakes Award, the Scripps-Howard Meeman Award, the National Press Club's Kozik Award, a National Headliner Award and the Southern Environmental Law Center's Reed Award, among others. For coverage of issues involving liquefied natural gas terminals, Finch and reporter Ben Raines received the Alabama Press Association award for community service.

MIKE FISH joined SI.com as a senior writer after a career in newspaper journalism. He has won multiple Associated Press Sports Editors' enterprise and investigative reporting awards and been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in public service and investigative reporting categories. At CNN, he was part of an investigation team that won a National Headliner Award for coverage of the attacks on America.

MARY PAT FLAHERTY is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. She previously was the paper's metro projects editor and a projects reporter and Sunday columnist at The Pittsburgh Press. At the Press, she won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for stories she co-wrote on violations and failures in the organ transplantation system. In 1995, she was a Pulitzer finalist for a series she co-wrote on careless hiring, training and disciplinary procedures with the District of Columbia police department. In 2001, she investigated allegations of Marine Corps efforts to cover up problems with the Osprey aircraft.

KEN FOSKETT, an investigative reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has received state and national awards for reporting on corruption in state government and shoddy care for the disabled. In May, he reported a series on waste, fraud and mismanagement of the national E-rate program, which funds technology in schools. He is the author of Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas, a biography of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to be published by William Morrow in August.

JOHN FRANK is interning at The (Raleigh) News & Observer after serving as the investigations editor at the Daily Tar Heel, an independent student newspaper covering the University of North Carolina. He received numerous honors for his investigative work on higher education issues and other topics, including top awards from IRE, SPJ, and the Hearst Foundation. He graduated from the university in May. This fall he will hold a political reporting fellowship in Washington, D.C., after which he hopes to land a job at a major daily.

ERIC FRAZIER covers family and child welfare issues for The Charlotte Observer. His five-part 2003 series, "Children Who Didn't Have To Die," sparked reforms in the North Carolina child welfare system and won the Child Welfare League of America's Anna Quindlen Award for Excellence in Behalf of Children and Families. A reporter for 15 years, he previously worked for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier.

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GILBERT M. GAUL is an investigative reporter at The Washington Post. In 1979 he won a Pulitzer for reporting on the collapse of the Blue Coal Corporation. He won a second Pulitzer in 1990 for stories on safety problems in the nation's blood supply, and has been a Pulitzer finalist on three other occasions.

ROBERT GEBELOFF is a projects reporter specializing in computer-assisted reporting for The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J. Recent work includes an investigation of real estate tax disparity in New Jersey, an analysis of job growth in the suburbs, and look at demographic characteristics of same-sex couples. He previously managed the CAR program at The Bergen Record.

ADAM GELB consults on crime and drug issues. As reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1987 to 1991, he wrote two award-winning series about the juvenile justice system and chronic drunk drivers. He has served as staff to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, policy director for Maryland Lt. Gov. Townsend, and executive director of the Georgia Sentencing Commission.

TED GEST is president of Criminal Justice Journalists, a national organization based in Washington, D.C., and affiliated with the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology of the University of Pennsylvania. Gest was a reporter and editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and U.S. News & World Report. At the magazine, he covered the White House, the Justice Department, the Supreme Court, and criminal justice. He is the author of Crime and Politics and is coordinator of the Council of National Journalism Organizations.

RICK GEVERS is president of Rick Gevers & Associates, an Indianapolis-based talent agency with clients working at the networks, ESPN, Fox Sports Net and in markets of all sizes. Previously, Gevers was a news director at WOOD-Grand Rapids, Mich., and WTOL-Toledo, Ohio. He has worked in Miami, St. Louis, Jacksonville, and Columbia, Mo. He's a former member of the board of directors of Radio and Television News Directors Association, the Ohio AP Broadcasters, and the Toledo Press Club.

MARK GREENBLATT leads the investigative unit for WBBH-Fort Myers, Fla. His reports have inspired state and federal laws and he has won awards from the Florida Associated Press, RTNDA, Colorado AP, Southern Colorado Press Club, Colorado Broadcasters Association and the Missouri Broadcasters Association. He won an IRE Award for his report on "Troubled Bridges."

MELISSA FAY GREENE's first two books, Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing, were National Book Award Finalists for Nonfiction. Sheetrock appeared on New York University's list of the 100 top works of journalism for the 20th century. Her latest book, Last Man Out, is the story of a 1958 Nova Scotia mine disaster and the Georgia governor's intervention into that event. She has just sold a book proposal about Ethiopia's AIDS orphans and it has been optioned by Dreamworks. Greene contributes to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Readers Digest, Life, Good Housekeeping.

RONNIE GREENE is an investigative reporter for The Miami Herald who has written about farm worker abuse in Florida, corruption at Miami's airport and cronyism at its public school system. A former IRE Medal winner, he was part of The Herald staff cited as Pulitzer Prize finalists this year for coverage of the Columbia space shuttle.

JAMES V. GRIMALDI is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post and a member of IRE's board of directors. He has won awards from SPJ, the National Press Club and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. He contributed to stories that won a 1996 Pulitzer Prize. He was a Knight-Bagehot business and economics fellow.

JASON GROTTO is computer-assisted reporting editor for The Miami Herald's investigative team. He has helped uncover problems within Florida's criminal justice system, Miami-Dade public schools, the Florida Department of Children and Families and the Miami Police Department. He joined the investigative team in 2001 and previously covered education in Broward County. Prior to joining the Herald, he worked for NICAR.

DAVID GULLIVER is database projects reporter at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. His recent work includes stories investigating a judge's handling of DUI cases, lax enforcement of fisheries laws and racial disparities in school discipline. He won state and national awards while with the Dayton Daily News for a series examining interstate gun running and dangerous cost-cutting in nursing homes.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA is CNN's senior medical correspondent, providing medical and health reports for the network's daily and weekend programming. He co-hosts Accent Health for Turner Private Networks and writes a column for Time magazine. Gupta is a faculty member of the department of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and performs surgery weekly at Emory University Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital, where he serves as chief of neurosurgery.

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HOLLY HACKER is a data analyst at IRE and NICAR. She just completed her master's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism. Starting in July, she will cover higher education for The Dallas Morning News. Hacker has used computer-assisted reporting to analyze school test scores, affordable housing and other topics. She recently analyzed school cafeteria inspections for Dateline NBC, and mapped sex offenders living near daycare centers for KIRO-Seattle. She is especially interested in using statistics and social science methods in journalism. Previously, she worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Ventura County (Calif.) Star.

CHARLES HADDAD is director of the Knight Fellowship program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and he teaches journalism at Emory University. He has a long history of investigative reporting during his 25 years in journalism. As a writer at Business Week, he was the first to reveal that WorldCom was a financial deck of cards about to collapse. Two days after his story ran WorldCom's board fired company founder Bernie Ebbers.

DOUG HADDIX is projects editor at The Columbus Dispatch. He co-wrote "Global Swarming," a series about the threats from destructive foreign animals and plants. Previous projects include investigations of the Ohio Department of Transportation, racial disparities in mortgage lending, the big-money influence on high school sports, and racial dividing lines in Columbus schools. He has worked at The Scranton (Pa.) Times, The Commercial-News in Danville, Ill., United Press International in Indianapolis and The Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun.

ANDY HALL is an investigative and projects reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, where he's worked for 13 years. From 1982 to 1991, he worked at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix as an investigative, general assignment and federal courts reporter. Hall has won more than 30 national, regional and state journalism awards, including National Headliner, Gerald Loeb, Inland Press Association and James K. Batten. He is a member of IRE's board of directors.

CHRIS HALSNE is the lead investigative reporter for KIRO-Seattle. His honors include two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, a National Genesis Award , honorable mention for a National Headliner, and 18 Emmy nominations. Halsne was a 1998 IRE Awards finalist for his investigation into financial mismanagement at the Oklahoma City School district.

JAY HAMBURG is a senior writer on the projects team of The Tennessean in Nashville. His 24 years of experience include three as an associate editor of a Sunday magazine. He previously worked at the Orlando Sentinel, Birmingham (Ala.) Post-Herald, Evansville Press and Wayne County (Ky.) Outlook. He won an award for non-deadline writing in SPJ's 11-state southeastern chapter in 1997 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing in 1984.

JANE HANSEN is a special projects writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In her 22 years at the newspaper, Hansen has won a number of journalism awards, including a National Headline Award for best local interest column, a Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Award for investigative reporting, two Best of Cox Newspapers awards for public service and editorial writing and a Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting. She has twice been a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.

JEFF HANSEN is a reporter at The Birmingham News, where his specialty beats have included health, science and business. He has degrees in economics and microbiology and has done research in molecular genetics.

JEFF HARRIS is executive producer of special projects and investigations at KMGH-Denver. He is leader of the team that exposed the sexual assault scandal and cover up at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is a winner of the duPont Columbia Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, an IRE Award, the National Headliner-Best of Show, an SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award, and a CINE Golden Eagle, along with more than a dozen other local and national journalism awards.

GARY HILL is the director of investigations and special segments at KSTP-TV where he has worked for 30 years. His investigative team has won the SPJ Bronze Medallion, the National Headliners award and seven Emmys for investigative reporting. Hill serves as the chair of the Ethics Committee for the Society of Professional Journalists and as the co-chair of the Freedom of Information Committee for the Minnesota chapter.

FUZZ HOGAN is director of coverage for CNN. Previously, he led CNN's investigative unit, coordinating the network's coverage of the war on terror from May 2002 to January 2004. He was co-executive producer on Nic Robertson's "Terror on Tape" project, which earned a Peabody Award and an Overseas Press Club award. Previous assignments included CNN's coverage of the O.J. Simpson case and the Oklahoma City bombing.

SARI HORWITZ is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, where she has been writing about crime, education and social services for 20 years. In 2001, she and colleagues Scott Higham and Sarah Cohen won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, the IRE Medal, the Robert F. Kennedy grand prize for reporting on the disadvantaged and the Associated Press Managing Editors Public Service Award. Horwitz co-authored an investigation of police shootings in the District of Columbia that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service and the 1999 Selden Ring Award. She is the co-author of Sniper: The Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation, published last fall.

BRANT HOUSTON is executive director of IRE and NICAR and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is author of Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide and co-author of the fourth edition of The Investigative Reporter's Handbook. He previously was managing director of NICAR and he was a daily journalist for 17 years. He worked at The Hartford Courant, The Kansas City Star and several news organizations in the Boston area. His experience includes stints on the investigative and projects desks at the Courant and the Star and several beats, including city hall, courts, health, politics and general assignment.

RUSSELL HUBBARD is a business reporter at The Birmingham News. He interrupted his time at the paper working for Bloomberg News in 2000 and 2001. At Bloomberg, he won a Gerald Loeb award for stories about Enron, and SABEW and New York CPA Society prizes for articles about El Paso Corp.'s off-balance sheet debt. Hubbard started in business reporting at the weekly Birmingham Business Journal in 1994.

VALERIE HYMAN has been a reporter, newsroom manager, corporate news executive, and Nieman Fellow. She founded the Poynter Institute's broadcast program and ran it for 10 years before leaving to coach newsroom managers full time. Her reporting awards include the DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Peabody, and two National Headliners. She has trained more than 1,000 journalists in writing, reporting, storytelling, enterprise thinking, researching and ethical decision-making.

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JULIE JARGON recently joined Crain's Chicago Business. As a staff writer at Westword newspaper in Denver, she reported on everything from education reform to the social services system. In January 2003, she broke the Air Force Academy rape scandal, for which she won an IRE Certificate and second place in the John Bartlow Martin Awards. Jargon won the 2003 Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Prior to Westword, she wrote for the now-defunct Boulder Planet, where she covered education and city hall and won numerous awards.

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON is a reporter for The New York Times and the winner of a2003 IRE Medal for Perfectly Legal, his bestselling book about how the tax system favors the rich. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his coverage of taxes.

JESSE JONES is an executive producer for investigations at WLWT-Cincinnati. Jones has won numerous awards for his investigative reports. Several of his reports have led to the passing of state and city laws in Maryland and Ohio. He began his career at KSTW-Seattle, followed by a seven-year stint at WMAR- Baltimore. Jones also serves as vice president of the local chapter of NABJ Cincinnati.

PILAR KEAGY JOHNSON is senior counsel at CNN. She handles pre-telecast review of scripts and video, inquiries regarding defamation, invasion of privacy and other inquiries regarding news programming and litigation regarding news programming and newsgathering. Prior to attending law school, she worked at ABC News and as a Congressional press secretary. After law school, she was law clerk to the Honorable William B. Shubb. She represented media clients at Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy in Atlanta prior to moving to CNN.

CHRIS JOYNER is member of the investigations team at the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Joyner begain at the Times Free Press in 2002 as county government beat reporter and has served as special projects reporter. He previously was a senior reporter at the Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal covering education and state politics.

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MARK KATCHES is the investigative editor at The Orange County Register and he oversees state and county coverage. He managed a Pulitzer Prize- finalist project this year that analyzed quality and costs at local hospitals. As a reporter, he won the Gerald Loeb Award and top honors from IRE and Sigma Delta Chi.

JOHN KELLY is the space team leader at Florida Today. He heads a team of reporters who cover NASA and the aerospace industry worldwide. Kelly spent most of the past year investigating the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and seven astronauts. He joined Florida Today in 2002 after five years with The Associated Press, most recently as an investigative reporter in Chicago.

KARISA KING is a projects reporter at the San Antonio Express-News. She joined the newspaper in 1999 and covered the police beat for four years. She previously worked at The Brownsville Herald, covering immigration and federal courts on the U.S.-Mexico border. Her stories on racial profiling at the San Antonio Police Department won the Texas APME award for Freedom of Information last year.

MARY ELLEN KLAS is Tallahassee bureau chief for The Miami Herald, where she leads a team of three reporters and a researcher. She joined the Herald in March, after working as a senior writer based in Tallahassee for The Palm Beach Post while also writing an award-winning column for Florida Trend magazine.

HANK KLIBANOFF is managing editor for news at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was previously the deputy managing editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has reported for The Boston Globe, The Daily Herald, South Mississippi Sun and the Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat Times.

STEPHEN C. KLINE is an investigative producer at WOAI-San Antonio. He was previously a photographer for 10 years. He has received two Emmy awards and two Edward R. Murrow awards.

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JENNIFER LAFLEUR is the computer-assisted reporting editor for The Dallas Morning News. She went to Dallas following a one-year fellowship with The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She has been the computer-assisted reporting editor for the San Jose Mercury News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She has won awards for reporting on disability issues and public records. She was the first training director for NICAR. She serves on IRE's First Amendment Committee.

ELISABETH LEAMY is the senior investigative reporter at WTTG-Washington, DC. She has won 11 Emmy awards and four regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. Leamy's first book, The Savvy Consumer: How to Avoid Scams and Rip-offs that Cost You Time and Money, was published by Capital Books in April. She has worked at stations in Tampa, Bakersfield, Calif., and behind the scenes at ABC News.

ANDY LEHREN is a Dateline NBC investigative producer specializing in computer-assisted reporting. He has covered stories ranging from terrorism to insurance and his awards include the Peabody, Polk, duPont and IRE. Before joining NBC, he was NICAR's database administrator. He has written for the Philadelphia Daily News, Reuters, the Philadelphia Business Journal and two deceased dailies.

ADAM LEVY is Bloomberg News' Atlanta bureau chief, responsible for news coverage in the southeastern United States. Levy spent four years as a research analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette before beginning his career in journalism. He co-authored The People vs. Big Tobacco, and has won several journalism awards, including ones from the G. and R. Loeb Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Business Editors and Writers and the National Headliners Association. Levy is a past president of the Atlanta Press Club.

CHARLES LEWIS is the founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity. Since 1990, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Center has published more than 200 investigative reports and 13 books, its work honored 26 times by IRE, the Society of Professional Journalists and others. The Center recently won the first George Polk Award for Internet Reporting for its report on U.S. contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Windfalls of War. Lewis has co-authored five Center books: national bestseller The Buying of the President 2004, The Cheating of America, The Buying of the President 2000, The Buying of the Congress and The Buying of the President (1996). Lewis, a former producer for 60 Minutes, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1998.

REP. JOHN LEWIS represents Georgia's Fifth Congressional District, encompassing the city of Atlanta and parts of Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton and Cobb counties. During the height of the civil rights movement Lewis was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which he helped form. Lewis is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Martin Luther King, Jr. Non-Violent Peace Prize and the NAACP Spingarn Medal. John Lewis is also the recipient of the John F. Kennedy "Profile in Courage Award" for lifetime achievement and the National Education Association Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Award. Lewis has served on Atlanta's City Council and was first elected to Congress in 1986.

KRISTEN LOMBARDI is a reporter for The Boston Phoenix who has covered the clergy sex-abuse scandal. Her reports have explored such topics as mental health, criminal justice, and child abuse. In 2003, she received journalism fellowships from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, as well as major awards from New England Press Association. The California Protective Parents Association awarded its Friend of the Child Award for "outstanding journalism and coverage of child sex abuse crimes and cover up."

RAY LONG has worked in the Chicago Tribune's statehouse bureau since 1998, writing numerous stories about state budget woes and prolific pork-barrel spending. He formerly ran the AP statehouse bureau, covered city hall and Illinois government for the Chicago Sun-Times and worked a variety of government beats for the Peoria Journal Star. He is a past officer of the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors.

JOSEPH E. LOWERY, who helped convene the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, is active in election and criminal justice reform and other civil rights issues. He co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Council with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957 and is chairman emeritus of the Black Leadership Forum, a consortium of national black advocacy groups. He served as pastor of United Methodist Churches in Mobile, Birmingham and Atlanta. Clark-Atlanta University announced in 2001 the establishment of the Joseph E. Lowery Institute for Justice & Human Rights.

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BRIAN MAASS is an investigative reporter at KCNC-Denver. His investigations of police corruption, public safety issues, government overspending, and environmental issues have won numerous local and national awards. In May, Maass landed the only interview with Private Lynndie England, the Army private at the center of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. Maass has reported for KCNC for more than 20 years.

MIKE MANSUR covers local governments for The Kansas City Star. This year he won first place in the National Headliner Awards for beat coverage. He covered the environment for a decade, was president of the Society of Environmental Journalists and continues to edit the SEJournal. He was a member of the team of reporters at The Star that produced the investigative series on the U.S. Department of Agriculture, winning numerous national awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.

ALLAN MARAYNES is senior investigative producer at Dateline NBC. He previously was a senior producer and producer at ABC News' 20/20 and a producer for 60 Minutes where he produced stories for Mike Wallace and Ed Bradley. He has won numerous national Emmy awards, two IRE Awards, two George Foster Peabody awards, the Overseas Press Club award and a Dupont Columbia Journalism award.

DR. HOWARD MARKEL is a professor and director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. A contributing writer for The New York Times, he frequently writes a column for the science section as well as reports on health care and medicine. He is the author or co-author of seven books and the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and honors, including the Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Faculty Scholars Award, the James Shannon Director's Award of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award.

RON MARTZ is the military affairs correspondent for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 23 years with the newspaper he has reported from more than 25 countries on a variety of national and international security issues including the war in Iraq, U.S. intervention in Bosnia, and the Persian Gulf war. He is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and the co-author of three books on military history.

CRAIG R. MCCOY is a projects reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has examined the Philadelphia police, mishandling of rape cases, gun crime and insider deals in nonprofits among other issues. Currently, he is looking into the creation of charities by politicians. With colleagues, his work on the police won a Selden Ring Award, a Roy Howard Award for public service and was twice a Pulitzer finalist. Previously, he has served as city editor, deputy city editor, as chief of the newspaper's New Jersey statehouse bureau in Trenton and as City Hall bureau chief in Philadelphia.

MIKE MCGRAW, a special projects reporter for The Kansas City Star, has worked on numerous projects over the years including ones on agriculture, college sports, food safety, global health issues, the art world and airport security. He has won several reporting awards, none of which would have been possible without the knowledge he gained from years of attending IRE conferences. He is a past member of IRE's board of directors.

DONNA MCGUIRE is an assistant city editor at The Kansas City Star. As a reporter, she spent much of 2003 on a three-person team assigned to investigate child abuse issues. A general assignment reporter at the time, she previously covered social services and education. One summer, she knocked on thousands of doors in poor neighborhoods to interview mothers who'd left welfare. Another year, she spent 54 days substitute teaching for a series titled "Inside Our Classrooms."

SHAWN MCINTOSH is a deputy managing editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Prior to that, she was executive editor of The Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi's largest newspaper. There she supervised a team that won several national reporting awards, including recognition for a series of stories about civil-rights era crimes. As a result of the paper's reporting, several Klan killers have been prosecuted and jailed. She has worked at USA Today and The Dallas Morning News as a projects editor and computer-assisted reporting specialist after beginning her career as a reporter in Georgia and Mississippi. McIntosh is president of IRE's board of directors.

M.A.J. MCKENNA is an award-winning national desk science and medical writer at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she covers the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and writes about domestic and global public health, bioterrorism and health policy. While at the Boston Herald, stories she co-wrote led to the first Congressional hearings on Gulf War Syndrome. At The Cincinnati Enquirer she investigated the association between local cancer clusters and contamination escaping a federal nuclear weapons plant. In 1998-99 she was the Knight Fellow in Medicine at University of Michigan. Her book about the CDC, Beating Back the Devil, will be published in September.

JEFFREY MEITRODT has been special projects editor of The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune since 1997. He won a 2002 Gerald Loeb Award for a five-day series that uncovered abuses in local programs aimed at helping disadvantaged firms. He won a 2002 National Headliner award for investigative reporting for a series that exposed nepotism and drug problems among Louisiana's close-knit fraternity of river pilots.

TED MELLNIK is database editor at The Charlotte Observer. He has contributed to "Are Places We Fly More at Risk?" a 2003 series on airline maintenance; "Death at The Track," a 2002 special section that cataloged auto racing deaths; "Grave Secrets," a 2001 series about failings of the N.C. medical examiner system; and "Doing the Crime But Not the Time," a 2000 study of crime and punishment.

TOM MERRIMAN is an investigative reporter with the WJW-Cleveland. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Law School, Merriman served as deputy Ohio attorney general in charge of the Cleveland office from 1991-94. During his nine years as a journalist, Merriman has won the National Headliner Award, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, and 19 regional Emmy awards.

ALAN C. MILLER is an investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times. He and Kevin Sack received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2003 for a four-part series on the Marine Corps' Harrier jet. The series also won the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for public service and an IRE Certificate. Miller received the George Polk Award, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and an IRE Medal for his work on the 1996 campaign finance scandal. He's been with the Times for 17 years and previously worked at The Record of Hackensack, N.J. and The Times Union in Albany, N.Y.

JUDY MILLER is managing editor of The Miami Herald, where she previously was investigations editor. She directed coverage of a tainted mayoral election that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and co-directed coverage of the Elian Gonzalez raid, which won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news. She is a past president and vice president of IRE's board of directors.

DAVID A. MILLIRON is director of computer-assisted reporting and analysis for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he performs data analysis and research for daily and long-term projects. He previously worked for Gannett News Service in Washington, and at The (Fort Myers) News-Press and The Tampa Tribune. He teaches journalism part-time at Emory University in Atlanta.

JERRY MITCHELL is an investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. He has won 14 national awards for work that helped lead to the arrests and convictions of Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers, Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers for ordering the fatal firebombing of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer in 1966 and Bobby Cherry for the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four girls. His work has prompted authorities to reinvestigate the state's most notorious triple murder - the Klan's 1964 killings of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.

CARRICK MOLLENKAMP is a reporter with the Atlanta bureau of The Wall Street Journal. He covers banking and finance and has covered the HealthSouth Corp. accounting scandal for the past year. He is a co-author of The People vs. Big Tobacco, a book about tobacco litigation. He was among a team of a reporters at The Wall Street Journal that won the Gerald Loeb and Overseas Press Club awards. He worked at Bloomberg News, The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., and Triangle Business Journal.

JOHN MONK is news columnist for The (Columbia, S.C.) State, where he investigates and reports on public safety, civil rights and consumer issues. Prior to joining The State, he worked for The Charlotte Observer, where his jobs included investigative reporter and Washington correspondent. He and three other State writers have a book under contract on South Carolina civil rights history.

GREGORY MOORE is editor of The Denver Post. Before joining The Post, he was the managing editor of The Boston Globe for nearly eight years. Before that, he served in various editing roles at the paper. He previously worked at the Journal Herald in Dayton, Ohio, and The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. Moore is a founding member of the Cleveland chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists and is a former member of the NABJ board. In 1996, he was named Journalist of the Year by NABJ's New England region. He is a member of the board of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and has been an instructor at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and the American Press Institute.

MALOY MOORE is a senior librarian in the editorial department at the Los Angeles Times. She works primarily with reporters who cover local and state news. She has worked on long-term projects and major breaking news stories using a wide range of online and print tools to profile individuals, businesses and communities. She previously worked for a consulting company advising clients on research and organizational projects.

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ERIC NALDER is a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News. He has received two Pulitzer Prizes, for national reporting in 1990 and investigative reporting in 1997, and he was a finalist in public service with The Seattle Times in 1992. He has received two IRE Awards, including the 1994 book award for Tankers Full of Trouble. He has taught interviewing and investigative reporting workshops in five countries.

JAMES NEFF is the investigations editor for The Seattle Times and the author of four books, including The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case. His biography of Teamsters president Jackie Presser, Mobbed Up, won an IRE Award and was made into the HBO film Teamster Boss. Neff's books twice have been Edgar Award finalists. He is a past president of IRE's board of directors and worked at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer and the Austin American-Statesman.

DEBORAH NELSON is the Washington investigative editor for the Los Angeles Times. She became an editor in 2001 after 25 years as an investigative reporter. In one capacity or the other, she has worked on more than two dozen investigative projects, including three that won Pulitzers. She is a past-president of IRE's board of directors.

MARGARET NEWKIRK is a reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering energy issues and the energy business. She has been a daily newspaper reporter for nine years, previously at the Akron Beacon Journal. She has won numerous state and national rewards for investigative, business and environmental reporting.

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LISE OLSEN is an investigative reporter at the Houston Chronicle. She has won national and regional awards for her coverage of immigration detention and the death penalty and her stories have prompted legal reforms and a U.S. Supreme Court case. She has specialized in computer-assisted reporting for more than 10 years and worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot. Olsen was founding director of Periodistas de Investigación, a sister organization to IRE in Mexico. As a volunteer and former IRE employee, Olsen has conducted training throughout the United States and in Latin America.

SUZANNE O'MALLEY is the author of Are You There Alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates. The author's discovery of false testimony during the Yates trial resulted in the pending appeal of Yates' conviction. O'Malley has been an editor for Esquire and New York magazine, an investigative journalist, a freelance producer and on-air news consultant for NBC and MSNBC. She also has been a screenwriter for film, stage, and television.

STEVE ONEY is the author of And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, winner of the American Bar Association's 2004 Silver Gavel Award and finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize awarded by Columbia and Harvard universities. He has served as a senior writer at Premiere, a senior editor at California and a staff writer at The Atlanta Journal & Constitution Magazine. Oney's articles have appeared in GQ, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire and other national publications.

RICHARD O'REILLY is the director of computer analysis at the Los Angeles Times. He has worked on series that have won a Pulitzer Prize, twice been Pulitzer finalists, won an IRE Certificate and a Sigma Delta Chi award. He joined the Times as an investigative reporter in 1974, after a 10-year career in beat and investigative reporting, split between the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post.

DAVID OTTAWAY has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a foreign correspondent and as a national security and investigative reporter. He has served as chief of its Africa and Middle East bureaus, head of its South Africa bureau its Southern Europe bureau responsible for coverage of the Bosnia war. For the past decade, Ottaway has been part of The Post's investigative and special projects unit.

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GEORGE PAPAJOHN is the deputy projects editor at the Chicago Tribune. During this time, Tribune projects have won numerous national awards for investigative and explanatory writing. Prior to that, Papajohn was the deputy metro editor in charge of city coverage. He also has written about urban issues and contributed to the Sunday magazine. He is co-author of an investigative re-telling of a school-house shooting titled Murder of Innocence.

DOUG PARDUE is special assignments editor for The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier. Among projects he has directed are a Florida election recount, misconduct in the National Guard and a series revealing what occurred inside the World Trade Center after the first terrorist strike. His work has received three National Headliner Awards, a Robert F. Kennedy Awards Citation and two Southern Journalism Awards. He was part of a Roanoke (Va.) Times team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of the year-long Pittston Coal strike. He has also been senior editor for investigations and enterprise at The Tampa Tribune and news projects editor at USA Today.

JAY PERKINS teaches computer-assisted and project reporting at Louisiana State University and dabbles in building database-driven Web sites. He has taught for 22 years and was a political reporter for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., prior to teaching. His students have won numerous national reporting competitions.

CHERYL PHILLIPS is an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times. She has spent much of the past year investigating nonprofit organizations. One investigation into mismanagement at the Seattle public television station resulted in the station president's resignation. She was part of a team covering the Washington D.C. snipers. That coverage was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002. Previously, she was a computer-assisted reporting editor for USA Today's sports section. She was a reporter and then a CAR projects editor at The Detroit News, and has been a reporter at the Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Phillips is a member of IRE's board of directors and chair of the education committee.

NOELLE PHILLIPS became a business reporter for The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. in May. Before accepting the job, she covered the military beat for the Savannah Morning News for six years. As a military reporter, Phillips covered the invasion of Iraq and traveled to five other countries to cover local troops.

ARON PILHOFER came to the Center for Public Integrity after a year on IRE's national training staff and serving as director of IRE's Campaign Finance Information Center. During that time, he trained hundreds of print and broadcast reporters in newsrooms across the country in the art and science of investigative reporting. Previously, he was a project reporter at The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. He also spent four years covering politics and state government in New Jersey for Gannett newspapers.

TONY PIPITONE is an investigative reporter at WKMG-Orlando. He has received 50 journalism awards since 1998, mostly with videographer Darran Caudle. They include seven Emmys, six Green Eyeshade Awards from SPJ-Atlanta, five Murrows, a National Headliner Award and 16 Florida Associated Press awards. Before switching to television in 1987, Pipitone was a reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun.

DUANE POHLMAN is the chief investigative reporter for WEWS-Cleveland. His stories have changed the way Social Security handles disability requirements, triggered a change in Ohio's sex offender law and new security measures at Hopkins International Airport. Recent investigations have included questionable real estate practices by a city councilman and out-of-control spending by managers at a drug rehab clinic. He has won more than three dozen national, regional and state awards. He is treasurer of IRE's board of directors.

JAMES POLK is a senior producer at CNN. He received the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for Watergate stories, shared in CNN's Emmy on the Oklahoma City bombing, and helped cover both World Trade Center attacks. He was an NBC News correspondent for 17 years before moving south. At CNN, he's been runner-up three times in the National Headliner Awards, lately for his documentary on police car fatal fires. Polk is a former president of IRE's board of directors.

JEFF PORTER is director of the IRE and NICAR database library. He conducts computer-assisted reporting boot camps for print and broadcast journalists. He worked in newspapers for 20 years, most recently as the CAR specialist at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

MAURICE POSSLEY is an investigative criminal justice reporter for the Chicago Tribune. At the Tribune he has worked as an investigative reporter, covered the state and federal criminal courts and served as deputy metropolitan editor. Possley has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize twice for work with other reporters on prosecutorial misconduct and the death penalty. Last fall, Possley received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award from Colby College. Possley is co-author of Everybody Pays: Two Men, One Murder and the Price of Truth and of The Brown's Chicken Massacre.

JUSTIN PRITCHARD is an Associated Press reporter based in San Francisco. His award-winning reporting on demographics includes the recent series "Dying To Work" about elevated workplace death rates among Mexicans in the United States. He previously reported from Southeast Asia and Cuba, Capitol Hill and Philadelphia.

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SALLY QUILLIAN YATES is the first assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, charged with overseeing all criminal and civil cases in the office of about 80 attorneys. She previously was chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the office. Yates has been with the U.S. Attorney's office since 1989 and has handled a wide variety of complex public corruption and fraud matters. Earlier, she practiced law with King & Spalding in the commercial litigation area.

LAURE QUINLIVAN is an investigative reporter and producer for WCPO-Cincinnati. This year, she won the National SPJ Award for Public Service for her investigation of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's cover-up of priest sex abuse. Quinlivan's work has been awarded two Peabodys, the duPont Columbia, an IRE Award, and the Urban Journalism Award.

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BILL RANKIN is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He covers the legal beat, which includes the U.S. District Court, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court. Before joining the AJC in 1989, he founded, edited and published a Washington, D.C., newsletter on the energy industry.

WADE RAWLINS is an environmental reporter at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. He arrived in North Carolina in 1990 just as the state entered one of its busiest periods of hurricane activity. Rawlins is a former media fellow at Duke University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy Studies. His work has won awards from the Tennessee and North Carolina Press Associations and the Southern Journalism Awards.

DAVID RAZIQ is the investigative producer for KHOU-Houston's investigative unit. The many national awards for his reporting include the IRE Award and the Scripps Howard award, both of which he received three times. He has also won the Sigma Delta Chi award, the Columbia-Dupont, the Peabody, the George Polk and the Edward R. Murrow.

NEIL REISNER is director of new editorial product development at the Daily Business Review, a South Florida paper covering law, real estate and finance. Reisner went online in 1984 and has scarcely been offline since. Reisner is a former IRE and NICAR training director and worked at The Miami Herald and The Bergen Record. He teaches at Florida International University.

DANA ROBERSON is an associate producer for the CBS News' 60 Minutes II. She has produced segments for Face the Nation, Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt/Charles Osgood, Fantastic Journey, Coast to Coast and Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel. She has covered events from the dragging death of an African-American man in Texas and the World Trade Center tragedy to the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the recent discovery of prisoner abuse photographs at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. She is the recipient of two American Women in Radio and Television awards, a National Association of Black Journalists honor and two Emmy nominations.

EUGENE L. ROBERTS JR. is a professor in the Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Roberts was executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer for 18 years, during which the paper was awarded 17 Pulitzer Prizes. Roberts was managing editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 1998 while on leave from the university. He is former senior editor of American Journalism Review and was chief editor and director of the magazine's two-year series "The State of the American Newspaper." Roberts is past American chairman of the International Press Institute, a former chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board, and received the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award. He was a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University in 1961-62.

TED RUBENSTEIN is a senior producer at CNN, working mainly for CNN Presents. Starting as a newswriter in CNN's early days, Rubenstein has written and produced documentary style stories, series and hours on a variety of subjects from locations around the world. He has won numerous awards, including a News and Documentary Emmy.

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KEVIN SACK is a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, based in Atlanta. In 2002, Sack and his colleague, Alan C. Miller, published "The Vertical Vision," documenting persistent safety problems with the Marine Corps Harrier attack jet. The series was recognized with the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, the AP Managing Editors public service award and an IRE Certificate. Sack worked for The New York Times for 13 years. In 2000, he wrote the lead article for The Times' acclaimed series, "How Race is Lived in America," which won the Pulitzer for national reporting as well as a special George Polk citation.

JONATHAN D. SALANT recently joined Bloomberg News in Washington to cover campaign finance, lobbying and national politics. He had spent seven years at The Associated Press, where he covered money and politics during the 2000 election. He is the co-author of the Money and Politics Handbook, published by the Center for Responsive Politics, and has spoken at several IRE conferences. Salant is treasurer of the National Press Club and a former president of the Regional Reporters Association and the Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

DONALD F. SAMUEL is a partner with Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C. He joined the firm in 1982 after clerking for a federal district court judge in the Northern District of Georgia. Samuel has authored three books relied upon by defense attorneys and judges throughout the southeast. Samuel also served as President of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys in 1996. He frequently speaks to conferences of attorneys, judges, and justices around the country and is regularly approached for his insight by print and television journalists.

JAMES SANDLER is a freelance investigative reporter currently working with The New York Times. His work, including photographs, articles and television production has appeared in The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, PBS Frontline and the CBS Evening News. Sandler's participation on the "Dangerous Business" series published in The New York Times and broadcast as a documentary film for PBS Frontline was recently honored with several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for public service.

VIVIAN SCHILLER is senior vice president and general manager of the Discovery Times Channel. She has been senior vice president and general manager of CNN Productions, leading the group's long-form programming efforts. She developed and launched People in the News (with People magazine) and CNN Presents - the latter of which has received numerous awards, including two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, two Alfred I. duPont Awards and a Polk Award, among others. At CNN, Schiller has won five Emmy Awards. As vice president and general manager of Turner Original Productions she managed the documentary division of the Turner Entertainment Networks and senior-produced Turner's "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream," among other Peabody- and Emmy-winning productions. Schiller is a member of the National Television Academy's Executive Peer Group, serves on the Screening Jury for the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Awards, is a member of the Banff Television Festival's Board of Governors and is a past president of the Cine Golden Eagle Awards.

ALAN M. SCHLEIN is the author of Find It Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research. The book's fourth edition is being released at the IRE conference. Earlier editions have won the 2001 and 2002 Pandia Award for best publication about searching. Schlein runs Deadline Online, training journalists, business, law enforcement, medical and health professionals and government officials how to use online tools for research. Schlein has served as the Washington bureau for more than 35 newspapers in 18 states and as a television field producer for networks including the BBC, CBS, and MSNBC.

CHRISTOPHER H. SCHMITT is a senior writer for the investigative reporting team of U.S. News & World Report. Before joining U.S. News, Schmitt spent most of his career as a reporter and editor at the San Jose Mercury News, which included eight years on the newspaper's special projects team. His most recent project was "Keeping Secrets: The Bush administration is doing the public's business out of the public eye. Here's how - and why."

FRED SCHULTE is the investigative editor at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. His projects have won dozens of awards, including the George Polk Award, the IRE Award, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Worth Bingham Prize. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist three times, for reporting on excessive deaths in Veterans Administration hospitals, for reporting on Florida HMO health plans for the poor and for uncovering deaths resulting from cosmetic surgery. He is the author of Fleeced! Telemarketing Ripoffs and How to Avoid Them. Schulte was a 1997 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow.

HENRY SCHUSTER is senior producer at CNN's investigative unit, specializing in coverage of international and domestic terrorism. He has produced a reports and documentaries about al Qaeda since 1997. He won a Peabody Award in 2002 for "Terror On Tape," which uncovered al Qaeda's video archives. During the war in Iraq, Schuster was embedded at coalition ground forces headquarters in Kuwait; he produced and wrote the "Inside The War Room," a CNN documentary based on that experience. Schuster broke the news of Eric Rudolph's capture in May 2003 and is the author of Hunting Eric Rudolph, an upcoming book on Rudolph and domestic terrorism. Schuster won an Emmy for coverage of the Olympic Park bombing.

MARY SHANKLIN is an education reporter at the Orlando Sentinel, writing stories that contributed to the paper being awarded the Scripps Howard Literacy Award in 2003. Her computer-assisted reporting stories have resulted in state reforms on substitute teacher qualifications and school libraries. She has won dozens of local, state and national journalism awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists award in 2002 for examining Orlando's dependence on the tourism industry.

DR. JONATHAN SHAY is a psychiatrist whose only patients for the past 16 years have been combat veterans with severe psychological injury. He is author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. He advises military leaders on the prevention of psychological and moral injury and speaks frequently with active duty audiences.

DEBORAH SHERMAN is an investigative reporter at KUSA-Denver. She was formerly an investigative reporter for WTVJ-Miami. She has specialized in investigative and/or enterprise reporting for six other stations across the country winning seven Emmys and numerous other regional and national journalism awards. She has won the Society of Professional Journalists' Green Eyeshade Award for a four-month investigation of child modeling Web sites. She produced an in-depth examination of security at Boston's Logan International Airport four months before 9/11, and worked with an FAA insider-turned-whistleblower about the government's elite and secretive Red Team.

KEN SHIFFMAN is a senior producer at CNN. His investigations have included bankruptcy fraud, insurance billing fraud and lead poisoning of urban children (an IRE Award finalist). He has helped cover major news stories, including the 9/11 terrorist attack and the Bush/Gore Florida vote recount. He has collaborated on stories that have won four National Headliner awards, three National Emmy awards, and an Overseas Press Club citation. Shiffman is a former IRE staff member.

BRETT SHIPP is an investigative reporter at WFAA-Dallas. In 2003, he was awarded the duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton award and the Peabody Award for his series of reports into a scandal at the Dallas Police Department. The series was recognized as a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize and merited the 2002 Legacy Award from the Press Club of Dallas. In an ongoing series, Shipp is examining the crisis in the Texas Workers Compensation Commission.

NATALYA SHULYAKOVSKAYA is an investigative reporter specializing in data analysis at The Orange County Register. Recently, she worked on projects exposing Caltrans' slow pace to fix dangerous roads, community colleges' scheme to reap millions in taxpayer funding by counting high-school athletes as students and their regular practices as college-level courses, and shoddy investigations into workplace deaths. Shulyakovskaya began her career in her native Russia, where she covered major news and investigated corruption, timber smuggling, mercury dumping and trade in body parts. She has also worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

PATRICIA SIMMS is a health and medical reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal. She previously covered the legislature and politics, as well as writing a daily column, for more than 20 years. Under a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she is a co-author of the National Media Guide to Quality in Health Care, a resource guide for journalists. She is a member of the board of the Association of Health Care Journalists and chairman of AHCJ's national conferences in 2003 and 2004.

DAVID B. SMALLMAN is a partner in the New York office of the law firm Piper Rudnick LLP. He advises IRE and NICAR on media law-related matters, including freedom of information, intellectual property and First Amendment issues. He is contributing legal editor of The IRE Journal and serves on IRE's First Amendment Task Force.

DOUG SMITH is a Los Angeles Times staff writer specializing in data analysis. His work includes a project showing the disruption that would result from a proposed breakup of the L.A. Unified School District and a map-based breakdown of inequitable school construction funding. His most recent project was a block-by-block portrayal of unsolved homicides. He did the mainbar rewrite in the Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the North Hollywood shootout.

MARK SMITH is an investigative producer for WFAA-Dallas. He recently produced a Texas Workers' Comp series that revealed possible fraud practiced by insurance companies but ignored by state regulators. Another series, "Fake Drugs, Real Lives," led to the dismissal of drug charges against more than 70 defendants. He has won Peabody, duPont and Sidney Hillman awards. Prior to joining WFAA, Smith worked at the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News.

J.J. STAMBAUGH began writing for The Knoxville News-Sentinel in 1999 after several years working at smaller newspapers in the East Tennessee area. He has won numerous awards from the Tennessee Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists East Tennessee Pro Chapter and Scripps-Howard. He was assigned to cover higher education in 2002 and chronicled the resignation of University of Tennessee president John Shumaker.

NANCY STANCILL is an assistant features editor at The Charlotte Observer. In the past three years, she has edited several investigative projects. She has worked as an editor at the Observer since 1999. For 10 years before that, she was an investigative reporter, first at the Observer and previously at the Houston Chronicle. Her work included projects on food safety, divorce court, tobacco politics, workers' compensation and child worker abuses. She is a member of the IRE board of directors.

MIKE STANTON leads the investigative team at The Providence Journal. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of last year's bestseller, The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys and the Feds. Stanton has optioned the movie rights to his book, in its eighth printing, to Hollywood filmmaker Michael Corrente. David Mamet is writing the screenplay.

BRYAN STAPLES is an investigative producer and photographer for WTVF-Nashville. Since joining the I-team six years ago, Staples' work has been recognized with a DuPont Award, a George Polk Award, several IRE Awards, two National Headliner Awards, two Sigma Delta Chi Awards, and as a finalist for the Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting.

CHRISTINE STAPLETON is the database editor for The Palm Beach Post. She previously covered courts, reporting on cases including the William Kennedy Smith rape case, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's adoptions and Florida's landmark lawsuit against the tobacco industry. She has won numerous awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists' Green Eyeshade, the American Society of Newspaper Editor's Jesse Laventhol Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award for her role in exposing the working conditions of migrant farm workers.

JAMES B. STEELE is an editor-at-large for Time Inc. and half of the longest-running investigative reporting team in American journalism. Since 1971, he and writing partner Donald L. Barlett have tackled issues including the IRS, the dismantling of America's middle class, corporate welfare, and the energy crisis. They have received virtually every major national journalism award, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Magazine Awards and five IRE Awards.

JOE STEPHENS is a projects reporter for the investigative unit at The Washington Post. He has investigated political corruption, the war on terror, the judiciary and drug experiments conducted on Third World children. He co-wrote "Big Green," a series on the environmental movement that won an IRE Certificate this year. The series also won the Scripps Howard Foundation Meeman Award for environmental reporting and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting.

DAVID STERNLICHT is head of NBC's Media Law Group, which counsels NBC News, NBC's 14 television stations, the Telemundo network news, the Telemundo television stations, MSNBC and CNBC on matters such as libel, privacy, newsgathering issues and copyright. Sternlicht joined NBC in 1993 after working for 11 years at ABC. Before he practiced law, Sternlicht worked for three years as a reporter for KVUE-Austin, Texas.

KRISTIN STINAR is an Emmy-award winning investigative reporter at KSTP-Minneapolis. She recently won two SPJ investigative awards, including first place for "Cancer Cure or Con?" Stinar was a news anchor and reporter at WXXA-Albany, N.Y. She began her career at KVLY-Fargo, N.D., and, while there, won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards for investigative reporting.

PAT STITH is an investigative reporter for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Stories he wrote alone or with a colleague have led to the enactment of more than 20 state laws; the release of a man wrongfully convicted of armed robbery; and the imprisonment of the state's top union official. He has won an IRE Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Stith is a former member of IRE's board of directors and was chairman of IRE's first national conference on computer-assisted reporting.

RICHARD W. STORY is a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1997 and confirmed by the Senate in January 1998. He has degrees from LaGrange College and the University of Georgia School of Law. Judge Story was in private law practice in Gainesville, Ga., from 1978 to 1986. He served as chief judge of the Superior Court in Georgia's Northeastern Judicial Circuit from 1986 to 1997.

LEN STRAZEWSKI is coordinator of computer-assisted reporting/new media at Columbia College Chicago and was recently asked to supervise an undergraduate course in investigative reporting as well. He also writes extensively on technology and business topics for local and national publications.

JIM STRICKLAND created WSB-Atlanta's consumer investigation franchise in 1999, after spending 15 years as an anchor and investigative reporter at WHO-Des Moines, Iowa. His first story in Atlanta prompted the Eckerd pharmacy chain to install new security procedures to handle confidential patient records. His exposé on a Florida vacation scam prompted a raid by the Federal Trade Commission. Strickland is a two-time Emmy winner and he won the Georgia AP's Best Specialized Reporting Award five years in a row.

JOHN SUGG is senior editor for Atlanta's alternative newspaper, Creative Loafing. Previously, he was editor of CL's sister paper in Tampa, the Weekly Planet. He has held senior writing and editing positions at The Tampa Tribune, The Miami Herald, The Atlanta Constitution and American Lawyer Publications. Sugg was an IRE finalist in 1999 for his articles on the ownership of the Tampa Bay Lightning NHL franchise. Sugg has won more than 30 significant awards, from the Society of Professional Journalists and other groups, for media commentary, editorial writing, columns and news reporting.

MARYJO SYLWESTER is the database editor in the USA Today sports section. Prior to joining the paper in August 2002, she worked at The Center for Public Integrity as the database editor and project manager for a nationwide study of state political party campaign finance activity. Former positions include database library administrator at IRE and NICAR, and editing and reporting positions at daily newspapers in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

ADAM SYMSON is the director of investigations and special projects for the E.W. Scripps Broadcast Group. He was previously the executive producer for investigations and special projects at KNXV-Phoenix. He worked as an investigative producer for WBBM-Chicago and at KCBS-Los Angeles. He has received many local, regional and national awards. He has worked at KNBC, KCAL and other news organizations in Los Angeles.

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MAURICE TAMMAN is a staff writer with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He works as database reporter on the paper's special projects team, leads census coverage and worked on the post-9/11 terror team. He previously worked for Florida Today in Melbourne, Fla., and the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J.

GARY TANNER is a bureau chief for The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph covering issues in rural counties outside the metro core. Previously, he was an investigative and general assignment reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. He led the newspaper's award-winning coverage of the Tri-State Crematory incident and investigated management problems at Chattanooga's largest public hospital. Most of the issues written about became part of an ongoing federal investigation.

JEFF TAYLOR is assistant managing editor for investigative reporting at the Detroit Free Press. He oversees projects and other enterprise efforts throughout the newspaper. He previously served as the paper's metro editor. Taylor has received numerous writing awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, the George Polk Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award and the Gerald Loeb Award. He began his reporting career in 1984 as a general assignments writer for the Kansas City Times. His writing posts at the Times, The Kansas City Star and the Free Press included investigative reporter and national affairs correspondent.

JOHN TEDESCO is a projects reporter with the San Antonio Express-News who has covered local government since 1997. His stories have focused on corruption at City Hall, school districts, the housing authority and nonprofit organizations.

CARRIE TEEGARDIN is an investigative reporter in the business news department at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She has produced numerous special projects, including investigations of Atlanta-based Southern Co., Georgia's nursing home industry, and the U.S. State Department's refugee resettlement program. Her work has won more than a dozen state and national journalism awards.

BILL THEOBALD is a business enterprise/projects reporter for The Indianapolis Star. He has written investigative projects on issues including problems with Indiana's voter rolls; drunken driving; fraud in the Indiana National Guard; and the state's failing public education system. He and Bonnie Harris won the 2001 Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting and the SPJ National Public Service award for "Destined to Die," about the slaughter of unwanted pets in Indianapolis.

CHERYL W. THOMPSON is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. During her six years with the paper, she has written about the D.C. Police Department's troubled homicide unit and about the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado. She covered the aftermath of 9/11 in New York and the anthrax hoaxes. She was part of The Post's national staff that won the 2002 Pulitzer for National Reporting.

GINGER THOMPSON is the Mexico City Bureau Chief for The New York Times. She was part of the team of reporters that produced the series "How Race is Lived in America," which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

LEA THOMPSON is an NBC chief correspondent at Dateline. She primarily does investigative work on consumer, health, environment and safety issues, and has won every major award in broadcasting, including several IRE Awards. Before joining Dateline in 1992, Thompson co-headed the investigative unit at WRC-Washington and was the consumer reporter. She also anchored at WRC and had a weekly show.

MARILYN W. THOMPSON is executive editor and vice president of the Lexington Herald-Leader, and former assistant managing editor for investigations at The Washington Post. She is the author of The Killer Strain: Anthrax And A Government Exposed and Feeding The Beast: How Wedtech Became The Most Corrupt Little Company In America, and co-authored Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography Of Strom Thurmond, with Jack Bass. She was a Congressional Fellow in 1982.

JONATHAN TILOVE writes about race for Newhouse News Service, based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Along Martin Luther King: Travels On Black America's Main Street, a collaboration with New York photographer Michael Falco. The book is based on a six-part newspaper series that was the winner of the 2003 Freedom Forum/ASNE Award for Outstanding Writing on Diversity.

AL TOMPKINS is the group leader for broadcast and online at The Poynter Institute in St Petersburg, Fla. During his 25 years in local TV news, he worked as a national award-winning reporter, head of special projects and investigations, and news director. His book about broadcast writing, Aim For The Heart has been adopted by more than 35 universities and newsrooms worldwide. He also writes "Al's Morning Meeting," a story idea column read by more than 12,000 people daily.

CYNTHIA TUCKER is editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a syndicated columnist. She is a frequent commentator on the News Hour With Jim Lehrer and CNN. She is a member of the board of directors of the International Women's Media Foundation, a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, American Society of Newspaper Editors, the National Association of Minority Media Executives, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was a Harvard University Nieman Fellow.

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JOHN ULLMANN is executive director of The World Press Institute. He is a former assistant managing editor for projects at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Projects he supervised won more than four dozen awards, including the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. As executive director of IRE, he started most of its programs, including its Journal and electronic library. He is the originator, co-editor and co-author of The Reporter's Handbook: An investigator's guide to documents and records, and author of Investigative Reporting: Advanced methods and techniques.

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CHRIS WADDLE is vice president of news for The Anniston Star. He was a Nieman Fellow and a professor of editorial and critical writing at the University of South Florida. A 2001 Fulbright Scholar, he taught journalism at American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad. He served as an official observer for a Balkan regional anti-corruption conference organized by the George C. Marshall Center and held at the Romanian Parliament, Bucharest.

MATTHEW WAITE is a general assignment reporter for the metro staff of the St. Petersburg Times, with a focus on using computer-assisted reporting for news. Before joining the metro staff, he was a general assignment reporter for the Times in a suburban county. He has used CAR for stories on home prices, census trends, test scores, traffic patterns and pedestrian deaths. He previously worked at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

JULIA WALLACE is the editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, directing a team of 500 journalists. Since joining the paper in 2001, she has introduced several new sections, including Atlanta & the World. She has focused on key areas of content improvement, including watchdog reporting, state government news and lifestyle stories. She became editor two years ago after serving as managing editor. She also has been managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and The Arizona Republic.

PAUL WALMSLEY has consulted on system analysis and software development since 1992 for a diverse range of clients, including Whole Foods Market, Churchill Downs, and a major New York private investment firm. He has worked with IRE since 1994. Recently he has been active in assessing the risks of electronic voting systems that will be used in the 2004 election.

KEN WARD JR. is a reporter for The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette. He has received seven major reporting awards for his coverage of strip mining, pulp mills, timbering and medical waste incinerators. He is a two-time winner of the Scripps Howard Foundation's Edward Jr. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is also chairman of the Society of Environmental Journalists' First Amendment Task Force.

JENIFER WARREN is a reporter in the Los Angeles Times' state capital bureau, covering prisons and criminal justice policy. Recent work includes pieces on California's violence-plagued juvenile prisons; the controversial use of lockdowns, and the incarceration of quadriplegic inmates at exorbitant expense. She also joined in coverage of California's 2003 gubernatorial recall and election of Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1992, Warren was on the Times team that won a Pulitzer for coverage of rioting in Los Angeles.

LAURA S. WASHINGTON is the Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor at DePaul University and a contributing columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. She teaches and lectures in Chicago and around the nation on issues including African-American affairs, Illinois and national politics, diversity, race, and social justice issues. She previously was the editor of The Chicago Reporter and is a frequent analyst for public television and National Public Radio.

STUART WATSON is an investigative reporter at WCNC-Charlotte. He has reported for more than 20 years in local television and has won the duPont Columbia Silver Baton for an investigation of military medical malpractice, two IRE Awards, and three George Foster Peabody awards.

MICHAEL WEBER is investigations team leader for the Chattanooga Times Free Press and co-author of the IRE beat book, Unstacking the Deck: A Guide to Campaign Finance Reporting. He spent eight years on Newsday's investigations team, has won numerous awards from both mainstream and alternative press organizations, and has taught computer-assisted reporting and campaign finance sessions for IRE, NICAR, AP and the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs.

MITCH WEISS is The (Toledo) Blade's state editor. He joined the newspaper after 12 years with The Associated Press, where he won state and national awards. Weiss also worked for The (Rockland, N.Y.) Journal News and The Greenville (S.C.) News. Weiss, Michael D. Sallah and Joe Mahr won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and an IRE Award for "Buried Secrets Brutal Truths,'' a series on atrocities by Tiger Force, an elite U.S. Army platoon during the Vietnam war. Weiss and Sallah are on a leave of absence to write a book about Tiger Force for Little Brown Publishing.

PETE WEITZEL is the freedom of information coordinator for the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government, based in Washington, D.C. He is a former managing editor of The Miami Herald and helped found the Florida First Amendment Foundation, and helped launch the National Freedom of Information Coalition. He taught at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the University of North Carolina journalism school, Duke Law School and was executive director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence.

ANNA WERNER is an investigative reporter leading KHOU-Houston's investigative unit. She and her team members won a Peabody in May for a series uncovering problems at the Houston Police Department crime lab. Werner's work on the Firestone tire story eventually brought about the biggest tire recall in U.S. history. Other awards include an earlier Peabody, the Polk, two Scripps-Howard Foundation awards and Werner's second national Edward R. Murrow award as well as numerous Emmy awards. Before joining KHOU, Werner was the investigative reporter for WISH-Indianapolis, Ind.

ALICE HART WERTHEIM is a researcher in news research services at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she is the liaison to the national news department and the elections 2004 group, the special projects team and the editorial staff. In 2003, she was part of a team receiving an honorable mention from the Association of Opinion Page Editors for the special section "Road to Baghdad". She has been a presenter at workshops for the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and IRE.

MARGOT WILLIAMS is research editor at The Washington Post. She was researcher on the Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning national coverage of 2001 terrorism and on the Post's Pultizer Prize-winning series that identified and analyzed patterns of reckless gunplay by city police officers in 1999. She is currently keeping track of Iraq war casualties, terrorism suspects and Guantanamo detainees. Margot is the co-author (with Nora Paul) of Great Scouts! Cyberguides for Subject Searching on the Web.

PHIL WILLIAMS is chief investigative reporter for WTVF-Nashville, and has won numerous awards for his investigations of government corruption and other abuses. A former print reporter, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and won an IRE Award this year.

RICHARD WILLING is a national reporter at USA Today, specializing in civil law and criminal cases involving DNA evidence. He has taught nonfiction writing in the graduate schools of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Michigan. He has served as guest faculty at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government on the subject of DNA and the American justice system.

BRAD WILLIS is an investigative reporter with WYFF-Greenville, S.C. In 2003, he won Best of Show in the National Headliner awards for a series of investigative reports tracking the veracity of claims in political advertisements. In 2004, Willis won first place in the South Carolina Associated Press Investigative Reporting category. Willis previously was a statehouse reporter for WLOX-Biloxi, Miss.

DEREK WILLIS is a writer and data specialist with The Center for Public Integrity. He previously worked at Congressional Quarterly, where he covered the House of Representatives, elections and campaign finance and produced annual vote studies. He began his journalism career at The Palm Beach Post in Florida, covering local government and working on special projects. He maintains thescoop.org and contributes to IRE's Extra! Extra! Web feature.

CHRISTINE WILLMSEN is an investigative reporter for The Seattle Times. She recently worked on the "Coaches Who Prey" four-part series with Maureen O'Hagan, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in public service and won several national awards. Last year she worked with a team of reporters on the Washington D.C. sniper stories, which also was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

SCOTT J. WILSON has been a research librarian at the Los Angeles Times since 1996. He previously worked as a librarian and news researcher at The Orange County Register and San Francisco Chronicle. He taught computer-assisted reporting in spring semester 2004 at the University of Southern California.

MARK WINNE is a reporter with WSB-Atlanta, winning numerous awards including four regional Emmys. He has covered the mail bombings that killed a federal judge and civil rights attorney, and is author of Priority Mail. He formerly worked for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

BARNETT WRIGHT is city hall reporter for The Birmingham News. He previously served as an assistant managing editor of the Philadelphia (Penn.) Tribune, the nation's oldest continuously black newspaper. He was nominated in 1999 for a Pulitzer Prize for his centennial update on W.E.B. DuBois's groundbreaking social study "The Philadelphia Negro." He attended Temple University in Philadelphia where he was sports editor for the Temple University News.

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LARRY YELLEN is an investigative reporter and legal analyst at WFLD-Chicago. He has investigated topics ranging from unsafe textile sweatshops in Central America to illegal gunrunning in Chicago's suburbs. He has won six Chicago Emmy awards, and he has twice been named AP's Best Reporter in Illinois.

ALISON YOUNG joined Knight Ridder's Washington-based investigative team in 2003 from the Detroit Free Press, where she was consumer affairs reporter, enterprise editor and deputy metro editor. In 2004, she and colleague Chris Adams won a National Headliner Award. Previously, she won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism,and the Roy W. Howard Award for Public Service.

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SCOTT A. ZAMOST is the investigative producer at WTVJ-Miami. A former producer for CBS News, he has won numerous awards, and his stories have led to changes in state laws and criminal prosecutions. He started his career in Las Vegas as a newspaper reporter covering the gaming industry.

PHOEBE ZERWICK is a metro columnist at the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal. Her eight-part investigative series, "Murder, Race, Justice: The State vs. Darryl Hunt," which found serious flaws in the legal system, led to the release of an inmate after new DNA testing identified a second suspect. The series was a 2003 IRE Award winner. She has won two public service awards from the Society of Professional Journalists.

CATHY ZOLLO is a general assignments reporter at the Naples Daily News. She was lead writer on the "Gulf in Peril" series, a finalist in the 2003 IRE Awards. She spent four years in the Marine Corps and five years as a child abuse investigator for Texas before becoming a cop reporter for the Wichita Falls Times Record News. She also covered local politics.

DANIEL ZWERDLING is a senior correspondent with National Public Radio and American RadioWorks, the joint documentary project of Minnesota Public Radio and NPR. His work appears on all of NPR's major news shows, as well as on hour-long specials produced by American RadioWorks. Before joining American RadioWorks, Zwerdling was senior host of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. He has been an NPR investigative correspondent covering environmental, health, science, and Third World development issues.