Josh Barbanel is a New York Times reporter who covers the problems of homeless people and New York City's welfare system. Barbanel previously reported on New York city and state government and politics, including a city corruption scandal that led to the indictment of more than a dozen officials. He joined the Times in 1978 as a copyboy after two years as editor of the Heights-Inwood newspapers in upper Manhattan.

Paul D'Ambrosio is the database editor for the Asbury Park (NJ) Press. He has been involved with computer-assisted reporting since 1988 and his computer skills are mostly self-taught. In the last year, Paul has used the PC to report on deadbeat taxpapers, dead voters, mortgage discrimination and where banks build (and don't build) branches.

He has won more than 20 national and state journalism awards in his 14 years at the Press. He is this year's winner of the NJ Press Association's Public Service Award plus recipient of the two leading national awards for the reporting of minority business issues in 1994: the Unity in Media Economics award and the National Association of Black Journalists' business writing award. Paul is a 1981 graduate of The George Washington University, Washington, DC.