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Expected speakers
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Speaker Bios

These are just some of the expected speakers. More will be added next week.

Nancy Amons, WSMV-Nashville
Kelli Arena, CNN
John Armand, Dateline NBC
Pedro Armendares, Periodistas de Investigacion
Iqbal Athas, The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka
Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News
William R. Baker III, Latham & Watkins
James Bamford, author
Donald Barlett, Time Inc.
Martin Baron, The Boston Globe
David Barstow, The New York Times
Roberta Baskin, NOW with Bill Moyers
Frank Bass, The Associated Press
Maud Beelman, The Center for Public Integrity
Kevin Begos, Winston-Salem Journal
Ben H. Bell, III, Transportation Security Administration
Steve Bennish, Dayton Daily News
Michael Berens, Chicago Tribune
Peter Bergen, author
Sandy Bergo, Freelance
John Biewen, American Radio Works
Rick Blum, OMB Watch
Walt Bogdanich, The New York Times
Daniel Borenstein, Contra Costa Times
Ben Bradlee, The Washington Post
Greg Bradsher, National Archives
Ziva Branstetter, Tulsa World
Mark Braykovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Brenda Breslauer, Now with Bill Moyers
Danielle Brian, Project on Government Oversight
Jeanette Brown, USA Today
Tom Brune, Newsday
Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair
Eve Burton, The Hearst Corporation
Christopher Callahan, University of Maryland
Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News
Peter Cary, U.S. News & World Report
Sheila Cherry, National Press Club
Rose Ciotta, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen
Russell Clemings, The Fresno Bee
Sarah Cohen, The Washington Post
Steve Coll, The Washington Post
Alice Crites, The Washington Post
David Crumm, Detroit Free Press
Lucy Dalglish, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Sylvester Daughtry, Jr., Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc.
David Dietz, Bloomberg News
Steve Doig, Arizona State University
Wayne Dolcefino, KTRK-Houston
Elisabeth Donovan, The Miami Herald
Leonard Downie, Jr., The Washington Post
Christopher Drew, The New York Times
Jill Dutt, The Washington Post
Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service
Paul Egan, The Detroit News
Peter Eisler, USA Today
Jane Elizabeth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Eric Eyre, Charleston Gazette
Douglas Farah, The Washington Post
Mark Fazlollah, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Mark Feldstein, George Washington University
Renee Ferguson, WMAQ-Chicago
John Ferrugia, KMGH-Denver
Scott Finn, Charleston Gazette
Mary Pat Flaherty, The Washington Post
David Folkenflik, The (Baltimore) Sun
Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, The Washington Post
Brad Garrett, FBI
Charles Gasparino, The Wall Street Journal
Gil Gaul, The Washington Post
Robert Gebeloff, The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger
Ted Gest, Criminal Justice Journalists
Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News
Ignacio Gomez, Canal Uno TV, Colombia
Don Goldberg, Chambers Associates Inc.
Matt Goldberg, KNBC-Los Angeles
Ronnie Greene, The Miami Herald
James Grimaldi, The Washington Post
Deborah Grosvenor, literary agent
Joel Grover, KNBC-Los Angeles
Michael Grunwald, The Washington Post
Dave Gulliver, The Virginian-Pilot
Holly Hacker, IRE and NICAR
Andy Hall, Wisconsin State Journal
Dee Hall, Wisconsin State Journal
Tom Hamburger, The Wall Street Journal
Jane Hansen, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mary Hargrove, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Susan Headden, U.S. News & World Report
David Heath, The Seattle Times
William Heisel, The Orange County Register
David Helvarg, author
Diana Henriques, The New York Times
Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker
Holly Heyser, St. Paul Pioneer-Press
Sari Horwitz, The Washington Post
Mark Hosenball, Newsweek
Brant Houston, IRE and NICAR
Mike Hudson, The Roanoke Times
Valerie Hyman, News & Management Training
Michael Isikoff, Newsweek
Kent Jarrell, APCO Worldwide
Elliot Jaspin, Cox Newspapers
David Cay Johnston, The New York Times
Ken Kalthoff, KXAS-Dallas
Dave Kansas, The Wall Street Journal
David E. Kaplan, U.S. News & World Report
Dan Keating, The Washington Post
Kitty Kelley, author
Dan Kennedy, Boston Phoenix
Armen Keteyian, HBO Sports
Neil King, The Wall Street Journal
Rocky Kistner, Center for Investigative Reporting
Dan Klaidman, Newsweek
Kris Kolesnik, National Whistleblower Center
Jackie Koszczuk, Freelance writer
Tony Kovaleski, KMGH-Denver
Jonathan Krim, The Washington Post
Jim Kuhnhenn, Knight Ridder
Stephen Labaton, The New York Times
Jennifer LaFleur, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Elisabeth Leamy, WTTG-Washington, D.C.
Jeff Leen, The Washington Post
Andy Lehren, Dateline NBC
Lee Levine, Levine Sullivan & Koch LLP
Chuck Lewis, The Center for Public Integrity
Harvy Lipman, Chronicle of Philanthropy
Steve Lovelady, editor
Toby Lyles, The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer
James Lynch, American University
Thomas Maier, Newsday
John Malcolm, Department of Justice
James Mallory, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mike Mansur, The Kansas City Star
Allan Maraynes, Dateline NBC
Willoughby Mariano, Orlando Sentinel
Joan Martelli, ABC News
David Martin, CBS News
Kate Martin, Center for National Security Studies
Karen Masterson, Houston Chronicle
Stephen Mastrofski, George Mason University
Ken McCall, Dayton Daily News
Robert McClure, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Craig McCoy, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Paul McEnroe, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mike McGraw, The Kansas City Star
Mike McIntire, The Hartford Courant
Shawn McIntosh, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Maryn McKenna, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution
John McQuaid, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune
Barry Meier, The New York Times
Jeffrey Meitrodt, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune
Robin Mejia, Center for Investigative Reporting
Lawrence Messina, The Associated Press
Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times
Dan Meyers, The Denver Post
Alan C. Miller, Los Angeles Times
Judy Miller, The Miami Herald
David Milliron, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Anne Mintz, Forbes Magazine
Vince Morris, New York Post
Blake Morrison, USA Today
Joe Mozingo, The Miami Herald
Anne Mulkern, The Denver Post
Alicia Mundy, author
James Neff, The Seattle Times
Joseph Neff, The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer
Deborah Nelson, Los Angeles Times
Chuck Neubauer, Los Angeles Times
Ron Nixon, IRE and NICAR
Lawrence Noble, Center for Responsive Politics
Asra Q. Nomani, The Wall Street Journal and author
Robert O'Harrow, The Washington Post
Lise Olsen, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Megan O'Matz, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Richard O'Reilly, Los Angeles Times
Paul Overberg, USA Today
Peter Overby, National Public Radio
Marcus S. Owens, Caplin & Drysdale
Geri Palast, Justice at Stake
Doug Pardue, USA Today
Douglas Pasternak, U.S. News & World Report
Judy Pasternak, Los Angeles Times
Mariane Pearl, author, France/United States
Cheryl Phillips, The Seattle Times
Nancy Phillips, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Aron Pilhofer, The Center for Public Integrity
Walter Pincus, The Washington Post
Tony Pipitone, WKMG-Orlando
Duane Pohlman, WEWS-Cleveland
Ed Pound, U.S. News & World Report
Stephen Power, The Wall Street Journal
Gary Price, author
Richard Prince, Maynard Institute
Laure Quinlivan, WCPO-Cincinnati
David Raziq, KHOU-Houston
Scott Reid, The Orange County Register
Michael Rezendes, The Boston Globe
Robert Roach, Senate Government Affairs Committee
Walter Robinson, The Boston Globe
Walter Roche, The (Baltimore) Sun
Mark Rochester, The Denver Post
Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune
David Rogers, The Wall Street Journal
Ira Rosen, ABC News
James Rosica, Tallahassee Democrat
Kevin Sack, Los Angeles Times
Jonathan D. Salant, The Associated Press
Mark Schapiro, Center for Investigative Reporting
Christopher H. Schmitt, U.S. News & World Report
Fred Schulte, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Ellen E. Schultz, The Wall Street Journal
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
Seth Rosenfeld, San Francisco Chronicle
Geoff Shandler, Little, Brown & Co.
Natalya Shulyakovskaya, The Orange County Register
Bill Sizemore, The Virginian-Pilot
Katherine M. Skiba, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
David Smallman, Steinhart | Falconer LLC
Mark Smith, WFAA-Dallas
Deborah Solomon, The Wall Street Journal
John Solomon, The Associated Press
James Steele, Time Inc.
Barry Steinhardt, ACLU's Program on Technology and Liberty
Joe Stephens, The Washington Post
Holly Stepp, The (Columbia, S.C.) State
Amie Streater, Pensacola News Journal
Margaret M. Sullivan, The Buffalo News
Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times
Liz Szabo, The Virginian-Pilot
Pierre Thomas, ABC News
Al Thompkins, Poynter Institute
Cheryl W. Thompson, The Washington Post
Lea Thompson, Dateline NBC
Marilyn Thompson, The Washington Post
Mark Thompson, Time Magazine
Charles D. Tobin, Holland & Knight LLP
James Trainum, D.C. Metro Police Department
Rick Tulsky, San Jose Mercury News
Karen Tumulty, Time Magazine
John Ullmann, World Press Institute
Trish Van Pilsum, KMSP-St. Paul/Minneapolis
André Verlöy, The Center for Public Integrity
Gregory L. Vistica, 60 Minutes II
Barbara Vobejda, The Washington Post
John Voskuhl, Lexington Herald-Leader
Paul Wagner, WTTG-Washington, D.C.
Mary Walsh, CBS News
Joby Warrick, The Washington Post
Mike Weber, author
Jonathan Weil, The Wall Street Journal
Steve Weinberg, Missouri School of Journalism
Anna Werner, KHOU-Houston
Alice Hart Wertheim, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Marian Wilkinson, Sydney Morning Herald
Margot Williams, The Washington Post
Phil Williams, WTVF-Nashville
Brooke Williams, The Center for Public Integrity
Derek Willis, The Center for Public Integrity
David Willman, Los Angeles Times
Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times
Duff Wilson, The Seattle Times
Nanci Wilson, KEYE-Austin, Texas
Trish Wilson, The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer
Judy Woodruff, CNN
Bob Woodward, The Washington Post
Scott Zamost, WTVJ-Miami
Marianne Zawitz, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics