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Speaker Bios Back to IRE Conferences: Washington, D.C. 2003 NANCY AMONS oversees the I-team and specializes in CAR at WSMV-Nashville. Among her honors are two National Headliner awards, a Green Eyeshades 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. KELLI ARENA is a Justice Department correspondent for CNN and a rotating panelist on CNN's On the Story, the network's current events program. She was a part of the team that won a Headliner Award and an Emmy for work on and around 9/11. She has covered the war on terrorism, the investigation into Al Qaeda in the United States, the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks, the threat of cyberterrorism and the post-9/11 anthrax threats in her work for CNN and CNNfn. Her awards include a Peabody Award and a CableAce Award. JOHN ARMAND is a producer for Dateline NBC where he has worked on investigative hidden camera reports, spent months "embedded" with homicide detectives shooting spots with DV cameras as well as working on dozens of other stories. He has been an executive producer and assignment manager at several television stations and is an Emmy winner. PEDRO ENRIQUE ARMENDARES is executive director of the Centro de Periodistas de Investigación, the Latin American version of IRE. Previously he worked for the Mexico City daily La Jornada, reporting on international issues and the Mexico-U.S. relationship, and he has contributed to other Mexican and international media. He teaches at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. IQBAL ATHAS is a consultant editor and defense correspondent for The Sunday Times in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he writes about the war between government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas. He is a correspondent for CNN and several international newspapers and magazines. He has received the Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Award for his coverage of the Sri Lankan military and the Editor's Guild of Sri Lanka named him Journalist of the Year in 1998. SHARYL ATTKISSON is an investigative correspondent and substitute anchor for CBS News. She co-authored a textbook, Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News, and has written for many publications, including Newsweek. She was among the first journalists to fly on a B-52 combat mission. Recent investigations include Red Cross Fraud and Bad Blood, Enron, Firestone, Los Alamos Lab Fraud, Rezulin, Dangerous Drugs and Smallpox Vaccine Adverse Events. WILLIAM R. BAKER III is a partner in the Washington office of Latham & Watkins. He is the former associate director of the Division of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he led numerous high-profile investigations that resulted in landmark enforcement, including the SEC's action against WorldCom Inc., one of the largest financial frauds in history. He is an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, where he teaches Securities Regulation. JAMES BAMFORD is an author and former investigative producer for ABC News. He won a Medal in last year's IRE Awards for his book Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency. His earlier book, The Puzzle Palace, also won an IRE Award. As an investigative producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, he won awards for his coverage of intelligence and national security. He has written for The New York Times and other publications and was recently a distinguished visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Public Policy. 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 nuclear waste, the dismantling of America's middle class, the Olympics and Indian casinos. They have received virtually every major national journalism award, including two Pulitzers, two National Magazine Awards and four IRE Awards. MARTIN BARON is editor of The Boston Globe, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service this year for its investigation into clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church. He started his career at The Miami Herald before moving to editing positions at the Los Angeles Times. He was then an associate managing editor at The New York Times before returning to The Miami Herald as executive editor. Under his leadership, the Herald won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its coverage of the raid to recover Elián González, the Cuban boy at the center of a fierce immigration and custody dispute. He was Editor & Publisher Magazine's Editor of the Year in 2001. ROBERTA BASKIN is the senior correspondent for PBS' Now with Bill Moyers. Prior to that she was the senior producer of investigations for ABC News' 20/20. At CBS News she was chief investigative correspondent for 48 Hours and contributed to the Evening News. She's won more than 75 journalism awards, including two George Foster Peabody and duPont Columbia University awards, as well as an IRE Award. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute. FRANK BASS is director of computer-assisted reporting at The Associated Press. 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. He is the author of the AP Guide to Internet Research and Reporting and is an adjunct journalism professor at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. MAUD S. BEELMAN is director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative research group. She has been a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press, covering German reunification, the post-Gulf War Kurdish crisis in Iran and Iraq, and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Her reporting has been honored by the National Headliner Club, the Associated Press Managing Editors, Society of Professional Journalists and IRE. KEVIN BEGOS is the Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Winston-Salem Journal. He uncovered the story and was lead reporter on the Journal's award-winning series on involuntary sterilization, Against Their Will. He has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan, and specializes in science reporting in addition to his political beat. He will be a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT for the coming academic year. BEN H. BELL III is director of the Office of National Risk Assessment of Transportation Security Administration. His office, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening-II, a system to confirm the identities of airline passengers and identify terrorists. He has been deputy director and acting director of the Justice Department's Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force, deputy assistant commissioner for intelligence at the INS and a U.S. Marine. STEVE BENNISH is assistant regional editor at the Dayton Daily News. He has worked as a reporter at the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune and as a projects reporter at The Cincinnati Enquirer and Daily News. Major investigative stories include a topaz gem scheme at the University of Missouri, Cold War human radiation experiments, community action agency abuses and deaths among the mentally ill and mentally retarded. MICHAEL J. BERENS is an investigative projects reporter for the Chicago Tribune. His most recent project detailed unprecedented rises of hospital-acquired infections nationally, and how thousands of patient deaths each year are linked to unsanitary hospital conditions from contaminated operating rooms to unwashed hands. PETER BERGEN is CNN's terrorism analyst and author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden, a New York Times bestseller translated into more than 15 languages. He has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a fellow of the New America Foundation and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. JOHN BIEWEN is a correspondent for American RadioWorks, the national documentary unit of Minnesota Public Radio that produces documentaries heard nationwide on National Public Radio. He produced The Lock-Up Society, a multi-year series on the expanding U.S. prison system. His recent awards include the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and two Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Awards. RICK BLUM is director of the Freedom of Information Project of OMB Watch, a coalition that includes journalists, labor, and government and environmental groups to fight the expansion of government secrecy. He is a longtime advocate for the public's right to know on environmental and public health issues, including public access to chemical accident data, and has testified before Congress on EPA's science program. WALT BOGDANICH is an assistant investigations editor at The New York Times. Previously, he worked as an investigative producer at 60 Minutes and ABC News. Before that, he was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. DAN BORENSTEIN is political editor for Contra Costa Newspapers, publisher of the Contra Costa Times and three other daily papers in the San Francisco Bay area. He has worked as a county reporter, projects editor, assistant city editor and, since 1991, political editor. His responsibilities include reporting and analysis of local, state and national politics, and supervision of the newspapers' political team. He writes a weekly column and provides occasional analysis for KQED-San Francisco. BENJAMIN C. BRADLEE is vice president at large of The Washington Post. He served as executive editor of The Post during the period in which the paper became known for such investigative work as the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. His career at the Post began in 1948 as a reporter covering federal courts. He left in 1951 to become press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. In 1953 he joined Newsweek's Paris bureau. He returned to Washington in 1957 as Newsweek's political correspondent and was later named Washington bureau chief. In 1965, Bradlee rejoined The Post as managing editor and became executive editor in 1968. He is the author of A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures. GREG BRADSHER is director of the Holocaust-Era Assets Records Project for the National Archives and Records Administration. He is the former assistant chief of Modern Military and Intelligence Records. He has served on the Interagency Group on Nazi Assets, was a member of the U.S. Government Delegations to the Holocaust-Era Assets conferences in Lithuania and Washington, D.C., and participated in international conferences in Switzerland and Israel. He has published more than thirty articles and his book, Managing Archives and Archival Institutions, is used throughout the world to train archivists. ZIVA BRANSTETTER is the projects editor of the Tulsa World, where she writes and edits investigative and computer-assisted projects and stories. 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. She has worked to change laws dealing with access to juvenile records and represented the Tulsa World in a federal police discrimination lawsuit to ensure public access to documents and databases. MARK BRAYKOVICH is business editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he oversees a staff of 40 reporters and editors covering metro-Atlanta's business community. He joined the paper after serving as assistant managing editor/local news for the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal. He previously worked at The Cincinnati Enquirer as a business reporter, investigative reporter and, ultimately, as an editor overseeing projects throughout the newspaper. BRENDA BRESLAUER is a producer for NOW with Bill Moyers, a current affairs program on PBS. She has worked in the ABC News investigative unit and for NBC News. Last year she won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for her post-9/11 reporting overseas. She earned a master's degree from Yale Law School as a Knight Journalism Fellow. This year, she won an IRE Award for a 20/20 investigation into the thousands of rape evidence kits which sit unprocessed in police storage rooms across the country. DANIELLE BRIAN is executive director of the Project On Government Oversight. She has testified before Congress as an expert on government accountability. The organization's investigations have resulted in public policy improvements, including nearly half a billion dollars recovered by the government in oil royalty revenues; improved security at nuclear weapons facilities and power plants; and the cancellation of such boondoggles as the $13 billion Superconducting Supercollider and the Army Crusader Howitzer. TOM BRUNE covers the Justice Department for Newsday. He previously worked for The Seattle Times, Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Reporter, and he has written for The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Brune was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 1999 and co-authored Serpent on the Staff: The Unhealthy Politics of the American Medical Association in 1994. BRYAN BURROUGH is an author and special correspondent at Vanity Fair magazine. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, he is a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism. He is the author of three books, including Barbarians at the Gate,' a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller. His fourth book, a history of the FBI's War on Crime against John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde and other Depression-era outlaws, will be published in 2004. EVE BURTON is vice president and general counsel of The Hearst Corporation. When she was vice president and chief legal counsel at CNN, she led the network's successful effort to obtain audio access to the U.S. Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. She has been vice president and deputy legal counsel at the New York Daily News, a visiting lecturer at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a senior litigation associate at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York. Her awards include a First Amendment Salute from the New York Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists; a First Amendment Award from the National Press Club and a First Amendment Award from the New York Press Club. CHRISTOPHER CALLAHAN is associate dean at the University of Maryland's College of Journalism and senior editor of the American Journalism Review. He directs the schools master's program, Capital News Service reporting program and cable TV operations. He is the author of A Journalist's Guide to the Internet and Producing News Online. He is a former Washington and statehouse correspondent for The Associated Press. TONY CAPACCIO is the defense reporter for Bloomberg News where he specializes in stories about acquisition programs and policy, weapons and budget issues. 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. KEVIN CARMODY is the environment writer for the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman. A founding board member and past president of the Society of Environmental Journalists, he has won more than two dozen national and regional reporting honors including the George Polk, National Headliners and Thomas Stokes awards. Among his science fellowships, he has studied cellular and molecular biology at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. PETER CARY is a managing editor at U.S. News & World Report and is a former investigative editor and investigative reporter at the magazine. He has been a national reporter, covered the Pentagon and helped start the magazine's first I-team. He previously worked at The Miami Herald. His awards included SPJ honors for best magazine story of the year and he is a four-time finalist for a National Magazine Award. SHEILA R. CHERRY is a freelance journalist and a contributing writer for Insight on the News Magazine. She is vice president of the National Press Club. Her areas of specialty span the issues of privacy and identity theft, the environment, and international trade. She has covered the federal economic policies of three presidents and, having begun her career in local newspapers, she has covered everything from city council meetings and local elections, to federal tax policy and U.S. presidential candidates. ROSE CIOTTA is the computer-assisted reporting editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. She has worked on award-winning investigative projects on Philadelphia police brutality and drunken driving. She formerly worked at The Buffalo News. She attended Stanford University on a John S. Knight Fellowship and is a graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse and Maxwell Schools. She is a former member of IRE's board of directors. JOAN CLAYBROOK is president of Public Citizen, a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization. As administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration she initiated the process that led to the placement of air bags in all U.S. automobiles, initiated crash test information programs and established the nation's first fuel-economy standards for automobiles. She is a member of the Georgetown Law Center Board of Visitors and is the author of Retreat from Safety: Reagan's Attack on America's Health and Freedom from Harm: The Civilizing Influence of Health, Safety and Environmental Regulations. RUSSELL CLEMINGS is a reporter at The Fresno Bee. He is a former first vice president and program chair of the Society of Environmental Journalists, created and oversees SEJ's home page on the Web, and was co-chairman of SEJ's 1997 national conference. A former Alicia Patterson fellow, he wrote Mirage: The False Promise of Desert Agriculture. SARAH COHEN is a database editor at The Washington Post specializing in projects with the local and national investigative desks. She shared in the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the IRE Medal for a report on child deaths in the District of Columbia following inaction or neglect by the city's child welfare system. Prior to The Post, Cohen worked as training director for IRE and NICAR, where she wrote Numbers in the Newsroom: Using Math and Statistics in News. She has worked as a reporter in Florida, most recently at the St. Petersburg Times. STEVE COLL is managing editor of The Washington Post. He has been a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor at the paper. A series about the SEC that he co-wrote won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism and other awards. He has covered India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. His dispatches won the 1992 Livingston Award for outstanding international reporting. He has received the 2000 Overseas Press Club's Ed Cunningham Memorial Award and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy International Print Award for reporting on the civil war in Sierra Leone. He is the author of four books. DAVID CRUMM is a religion writer at the Detroit Free Press. His stories have ranged from an investigation of the role religious groups played in the rise of democracy in eastern Europe around 1990 to the origins of an isolated sect in mid-Michigan that believed it could resurrect its members from the dead. He has written extensively about Muslim and Arab-American concerns, because Detroit is home to thousands of these immigrant families. LUCY A. DALGLISH is executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, an association of reporters and editors dedicated to protecting the First Amendment interests of the news media. She was a media lawyer at the Minneapolis firm of Dorsey & Whitney and was a reporter and editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press for 13 years. She was awarded the Wells Memorial Key by the Society of Professional Journalists and was one of 24 journalists, lawyers, lawmakers, educators, researchers, librarians and historians inducted into the charter class of the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame. LEON DASH is the Swanlund Chair Professor in Journalism and Afro-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While at The Washington Post, he was a reporter, West Africa Bureau Chief and a member of the investigative desk. He is a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists. In 1995, he and photographer Lucian Perkins won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism. His other honors include a Kaiser Media Fellowship, an IRE Award, the George Polk Award, a first place award from NABJ, an Emmy and an Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award. He is co-author or author of three books. DAVID DIETZ specializes in investigations and enterprise for Bloomberg News. He was a special projects editor and reporter at TheStreet.com and at the San Francisco Chronicle. He has won more than 20 national and regional reporting awards for investigating corporate fraud, judicial misconduct and civic corruption. He is the chairman of IRE's board of directors. STEPHEN K. DOIG is Knight Chair in Journalism, specializing in computer-assisted reporting, at Arizona State University. Before joining ASU in 1996, he was a reporter and editor at The Miami Herald for 19 years. Computer-assisted investigative projects on which he worked have won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the IRE Award, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and other awards. He was elected to the IRE Board of Directors in 2002. WAYNE DOLCEFINO is an investigative reporter leading the undercover unit at KTRK-Houston. In the past eight years he has won an IRE Medal and been a finalist twice in the Ire Awards. He has 12 Emmys and this year won his second Edward R. Murrow Award For Investigative Reporting. ELISABETH DONOVAN is the news research editor at The Miami Herald. She is responsible for Internet and commercial database acquisition and training, newsroom Intranet and news research. She was a member of the team that won the 1999 Pulitzer prize in Investigative Reporting for coverage of voting fraud in the 1997 Miami mayoral election. She was an assistant librarian/national desk researcher at The Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers and Watergate investigations. LEONARD DOWNIE JR. is executive editor of The Washington Post. As deputy metropolitan editor, Downie supervised The Post's Watergate coverage. He joined The Post as a summer intern in 1964 and specialized in investigative coverage of crime, courts, housing and urban affairs. His positions there have included assistant managing editor, London correspondent, national editor and managing editor. He has won two Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Front Page awards, the American Bar Association Gavel Award for legal reporting and the John Hancock Award for excellent business and financial writing. He is the author of four books, including The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril. In 2003, that book won the Goldsmith Award from the Joan Shorenstein Center. CHRISTOPHER DREW is an investigative reporter and projects editor at The New York Times. He is co-author of Blind Man's Bluff, a book about submarine espionage during the Cold War. He joined The Times in after working for the Chicago Tribune in Washington, where he won awards for investigative projects from the White House Correspondents' Association. KEVIN ECKSTROM is a national correspondent for Religion News Service, a Washington-based secular news service feeding to more than 200 newspapers and religious publications. He covers Catholics, mainline Protestants, politics and other issues. He previously was the religion editor at the Stuart/Port St. Lucie News in Florida. He was the winner of the 2000 Cassels Award for small newspapers from the Religion Newswriters Association and has won more than a dozen writing awards from Associated Church Press. HOLLY HACKER is a data analyst in the IRE and NICAR Database Library. She covered education and was the computer-assisted reporting specialist for the education team at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She helped produce an annual school guide that analyzes test scores and other data for schools in Missouri and Illinois. She has reported for the Ventura County (Calif.) Star, the Antioch (Calif.) Ledger-Dispatch and the Gazette Newspapers in Maryland. PAUL EGAN is a reporter at The Detroit News, where his investigation of Detroit Metropolitan Airport's contracting practices were cited by state legislators when they removed the airport from the county's control. His reporting on the airport and other issues related to Wayne County Executive Edward H. McNamara's fund-raising and contracting practices preceded a federal grand jury investigation and a police raid on McNamara's offices Nov. 22. He has won awards for investigative reporting in Canada, Bermuda and the United States. PETER EISLER is a reporter at USA Today whose recent work has focused on national security and threats posed by nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. His work has earned national prizes and citations in journalism textbooks. In 2001, he received National Press Club and National Press Foundation awards for stories on the health and environmental consequences of a federal program that secretly hired private companies to process nuclear weapons fuel. JANE ELIZABETH is an education editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In 2000, she was recognized for a series about sexual abuse of children by teachers. She has been awarded fellowships by the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, Education Writers Association, and Child and Family Policy at the University of Maryland. She has worked at The Richmond (Va.) News Leader and the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. She teaches journalism at the University of Pittsburgh and Point Park College. ERIC EYRE is an education reporter at the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette, where he has received 14 national awards, including the National Headliners Award and Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize in Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association this year. He and colleague Scott Finn were finalists in this year's IRE Awards and the Gerald Loeb Awards for business writing. He recently was awarded a Journalism Fellowship in Child and Family Policy at the University of Maryland. DOUGLAS FARAH is an investigative journalist for The Washington Post. He has been the paper's West Africa Bureau Chief, Central America and Caribbean correspondent and international investigative correspondent. He was United Press International's Bureau Chief in El Salvador before leaving to freelance for The Post, The Boston Globe, U.S. News & World Report and other publications. He has won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for International Reporting, the Maria Moors Cabor Prize for distinguished reporting on Latin America and was a SAIS-Novartis finalist. MARK FAZLOLLAH is a reporter with The Philadelphia Inquirer, mainly assigned to projects, including national security issues. He has won a series of national awards for his reporting, including the Selden Ring and Roy Howard Awards. He has worked on several Inquirer projects that have been Pulitzer finalists. His reporting this year on terrorism prompted a General Accounting Office audit of Justice Department record-keepings. Prior to joining the Inquirer, he covered Latin America for London's Daily Telegraph. MARK FELDSTEIN is a journalism professor at George Washington University and a former correspondent for CNN, ABC News, and local television stations. He has been beaten up and sued in the U.S., detained and censored by authorities in Egypt, and escorted out of the country under armed guard in Haiti. His awards include two Peabodys, Columbia DuPont, RTNDA Edward R. Murrow and nine regional Emmys. He is writing a biography of columnist Jack Anderson. RENEE FERGUSON is an investigative reporter at WMAQ-Chicago. She has reported on sexual harassment claims at Ford Motor Company, allegations that minority women were unfairly targeted at O'Hare Airport, the deaths of children in a clinical drug trial and more. Her honors include the DuPont Award, the Goldsmith Award, the Gracie Award and the Associated Press Award for Best Investigative Reporting. She has received seven Chicago Emmys and reporting awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and its Chicago chapter. JOHN FERRUGIA is a reporter at KMGH-Denver. He investigated airport safety before the 9/11 attacks and has recently reported on alleged sexual assaults of Air Force cadets. He has been a Washington and White House correspondent for CBS News, a principal correspondent and anchor of the CBS News' West 57th and anchored the evening news at KCNC-Denver. His honors include the Peabody Award, Associated Press Broadcasting Awards and several Emmys. SCOTT FINN is a general assignment reporter for the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette. He and education reporter Eric Eyre collaborated on two series last year: License to Steal, which led to the resignation of a top education official, and Closing Costs, which won this year's top prize from the Education Writers Association. MARY PAT FLAHERTY is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. She previously was the paper's former 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. EMILIO GARCIA-RUIZ is the assistant managing editor for sports at The Washington Post. He has been sports editor at The Post and at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, where he edited a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of academic fraud in the University of Minnesota men's basketball program. He has served as assistant sports editor at the Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register. He started his career at The Prince George's Journal in Lanham, Md. BRAD GARRETT is a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He joined the FBI after working as a federal parole and probation officer in Indiana. His high-profile arrests include the pursuit and capture of the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing and the perpetrator of a fatal shooting outside CIA headquarters. A former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, he holds a Ph.D. in criminology. His current cases include the Chandra Levy murder and the D.C. sniper. CHARLES GASPARINO is a senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal where he covers Wall Street. Now he is on leave to write a book on the Wall Street research scandal, a subject about which he wrote a series of stories. He has covered everything from state and city government to mutual funds. His specialization in the municipal-bond market helped him uncover scandals involving New York City's finances. 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 CAR specialist with the projects team at the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger. Recent work has included an examination of the medical device industry, numerous Census stories and an ongoing data-driven series of articles about New Jersey's property tax system. TED GEST is president of Criminal Justice Journalists and coordinator of the National Council of Journalism Organizations. He covered the Justice Department, Supreme Court and legal affairs for U.S. News & World Report and was an editor and reporter covering criminal justice for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His book, Crime & Politics, was published in 2001. DAN GILLMOR is business and technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. He also writes a daily Web-based column for SiliconValley.com. His column runs in many other U.S. newspapers, and he appears regularly on radio and television. MATT GOLDBERG is the senior investigative producer at KNBC-Los Angeles. He has worked for television stations in Phoenix, Houston, and San Francisco. His stories have exposed unlicensed doctors, organized corruption, airport security holes, transportation safety issues and human rights violations. DON GOLDBERG is senior vice president of Navigant Consulting in Washington, D.C., where he specializes in public affairs, and crisis management. A former journalist, he has been special assistant to President Clinton, developing strategic responses to investigations. His corporate clients have included General Motors, IBM, Adobe, Koch Industries, DoubleClick, 3M, ZeroKnowledge, and Horizon Airlines. IGNACIO GÓMEZ is the director of investigations at Noticias Uno, a current affairs television program in Bogota, Colombia. He is the former director of investigations at El Espectador, the country's oldest daily newspaper. His reports have looked at drug-trafficking, political corruption, arms trade, and mercenary involvement in the Colombian civil war and have appeared in several international publications. His prizes include the Rothko Chapel Award, the Sam Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism and Colombia's Simón Bolívar National Prize for Journalism. He has written five books, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and recipient of the International Press Freedom Award from Committee to Protect Journalists. RONNIE GREENE is a member of The Miami Herald's investigative staff. He has written about corruption at Miami's airport and cronyism at its public school system. He has also examined Florida's crackdown against juvenile defendants and explored South Florida's overburdened criminal justice system. He is a past winner of the IRE Medal. JAMES V. GRIMALDI is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. He has won National Press Club, Society for Professional Journalists and National Headliner awards, among others. He participated in The Orange County Register project that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. He was a major contributor to the Post's 2001 book, Deadlock: The Inside Story of America's Closest Election. He is a member of IRE's board of directors and chairman of the Washington, D.C., conference committee. DEBORAH GROSVENOR is a book editor and literary agent. Her best-known acquisition was The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy. She represents about 40 writers and her agency handles commercial and literary fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis on history, biography, politics, current affairs, military, popular culture and style, business, and science. JOEL GROVER is the investigative reporter for KNBC-Los Angeles. He has won the Peabody, the du-Pont Columbia, four national Edward R. Murrow awards and two IRE Medals. His investigations have helped change laws, lead to the prosecutions of over 70 people, and prompted millions of dollars in refunds to consumers. MICHAEL GRUNWALD is a reporter on the national staff of The Washington Post, but he is taking a leave of absence to write a book about the Florida Everglades. He worked at The Boston Globe before joining The Post, starting as an intern in the sports department. His awards include the George Polk Award for national reporting and the Worth Bingham Award for investigative reporting. DAVID GULLIVER is database projects reporter at The Virginian-Pilot His recent work includes stories examining grade inflation at Virginia colleges and comparing the campaign staffing of candidates for governor. He has won state and national awards for stories examining interstate gun running, deadly cost-cutting at nursing homes and inequities in public school funding. He previously held the same position at the Dayton Daily News. HOLLY HACKER is a data analyst in the IRE and NICAR Database Library. She covered education and was the CAR specialist for the education team at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She helped produce an annual school guide that analyzes test scores and other data for schools in Missouri and Illinois. She has reported for the Ventura County (Calif.) Star, the Antioch (Calif.) Ledger-Dispatch and the Gazette Newspapers in Maryland. ANDY HALL is investigative and projects reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal and a member of IRE's board of directors. He has won more than 30 national, regional and state journalism awards, including National Headliner, Gerald Loeb, Inland Press Association and James K. Batten. Previously he was an investigative, general assignment and federal courts reporter at The Arizona Republic. DEE HALL is a reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal. Before that, she was a reporter for The Arizona Republic. Her articles have won first-place awards from contests sponsored by the Arizona Press Club, Best of the West, Milwaukee Press Club, Inland Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and others. TOM HAMBURGER is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where he writes about money and politics. He has covered the court challenge to the campaign finance law and the changes in lobbying and campaign funding tactics it helped inspire. Before joining the Journal, he was Washington correspondent for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and deputy Washington bureau chief for McClatchy newspapers. JANE HANSEN is a special projects reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she writes mostly about children's issues. She has been a reporter, columnist and editorial board member. Her awards include the James M. Cox Award, the National Headliner Award, the Selden Ring Award, SPJ Green Eyeshade Award and, in 2000, she was named Journalist of the Year by the Atlanta Press Club. She has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Before becoming a reporter, she was a member of the White House staff under President Jimmy Carter. MARY HARGROVE is associate editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. She has written about children's issues for 25 years and has won the grand prize Robert F. Kennedy Award and the Casey Journalism Medal for a series on abuse in the Arkansas juvenile justice system in 1998. She also won the Heywood Broun Award for a series on children in 2000. She is a former president and chairman of IRE's board of directors. SUSAN HEADDEN is an assistant managing editor at U.S. News & World Report. She served as investigative editor and an investigative reporter for the magazine and has won numerous awards for her work - both at U.S. News and at The Indianapolis Star, where she won a Pulitzer Prize. While at the Star, she was an adjunct instructor of journalism at Franklin College in Franklin, Ind. DAVID HEATH is an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times. In the past year, he was part of teams that wrote The Terrorist Within, a narrative account of the life of an al-Qaida terrorist, and covered the Beltway sniper story. Both were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He, with Duff Wilson, have won several national awards, including the Goldsmith, the Polk, the Gerald Loeb, the Heywood Broun and were finalists for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. He was the director of computer-assisted reporting at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a reporter at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky. WILLIAM HEISEL investigates health and welfare issues for The Orange County Register. He was one of the lead reporters on the Register's Body Brokers series, which exposed money being made from human tissue donations. He helped expose problems in the state's enforcement of water quality laws and medical practice standards. His work has won the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for public service reporting and two Loeb awards from the UCLA Anderson School of Business for financial reporting. DAVID HELVARG is the author of two books: Blue Frontier: Saving America's Living Seas and The War Against the Greens. He has worked as a war correspondent in Northern Ireland and Central America and produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS and others. His print work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian, Popular Science and The Nation. He's a regular commentator for Marketplace radio, and a licensed Private Investigator. DIANA B. HENRIQUES is a reporter at The New York Times where she specializes in reporting on financial fraud, white-collar crime and corporate governance issues. She has worked for Barron's National Business, Financial Weekly, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Trenton (N.J.) Times, Asbury Park Press (N.J.) and the Palo Alto (Calif.) Times. She has won several awards, including the Gerald R. Loeb Award, as a member of a team. She is the author of The Machinery of Greed: Public Authority Abuse and What to Do About It, Fidelity's World: The Secret Life and Public Power of the Mutual Fund Giant and The White Sharks of Wall Street: Thomas Mellon Evans and the Original Corporate Raiders SEYMOUR M. HERSH is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and the author of seven books. He worked for the City News Bureau of Chicago before serving in the Army. He then worked for a suburban newspaper and then for UPI and AP until he went to work for Eugene J. McCarthy's presidential campaign. He worked at The New York Times before becoming a freelance writer, with two six-month returns on special assignment to the Times' Washington bureau. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, four George Polk Awards, two IRE Awards and other prizes for reporting on My Lai, the CIA's bombing of Cambodia, Henry Kissinger's wiretapping, and the CIA's efforts against Chile's Salvador Allende, among other topics. HOLLY A. HEYSER is the state government editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and president of the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors, a national organization dedicated to statehouse reporting. She contributed a chapter on the 2002 Minnesota governor's race for the soon-to-be-released Midterm Madness: The Elections of 2002. She is a 2002-03 policy fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. SARI HORWITZ is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, where she has written about crime, education and social services for 19 years. Last year, she and her colleagues wrote a series on the deaths of children under the protection of the D.C. government. That project was awarded 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. She also co-authored an investigation of police shootings in D.C. that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the 1999 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. MARK HOSENBALL is an investigative correspondent at Newsweek. Most recently, he has written and reported numerous stories on terrorism and the 9/11 attacks. He has covered campaign finance, the Monica Lewinsky controversy, the death of Princess Diana, Whitewater, the crashes of EgyptAir flight 990 and TWA flight 800, as well as related air safety issues. Has been an investigative producer for Dateline NBC and written for British and American publications. He was a part of teams that won the Ed Cunningham Memorial Award, National Magazine Award for General Excellence, and the Edgar A. Poe Award. BRANT HOUSTON is executive director of IRE and an associate 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 the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting 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. MIKE HUDSON is a Roanoke Times journalist specializing in the problems of disadvantaged consumers. He is the recipient of the John Hancock Award for financial journalism, the Sidney Hillman Memorial Award for social justice reporting and the Investment Company Institute/American University Award for personal finance reporting. He is the author of Merchants of Misery, which details businesses that target the "fringe economy" and make $200 billion to $300 billion a year off the poor, the working class and often minorities. VALERIE HYMAN, president, News & Management Training, provides workshops for networks, television groups, and newsrooms across the country. She created the Program for Broadcast Journalists at The Poynter Institute and spent a decade there leading seminars and conferences. As a reporter, she was awarded the DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, two National Headliner Awards and the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. MICHAEL ISIKOFF is an investigative correspondent at Newsweek. He has written on the U.S. government's war on terrorism, the Enron scandal, the Florida election recount, campaign finance abuses, presidential politics and other national issues. He has received an IRE Award, the Ed Cunningham Memorial Award, a National Magazine Award for General Excellence, a National Headliner Award, an Edgar A. Poe Award and the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Reporting on the Presidency. He is the author of Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story, a book that chronicled his reporting of the Lewinsky story. He has worked at The Washington Post and the now-defunct Washington Star. KENT JARRELL is senior vice president and director of litigation communications at APCO Worldwide in Washington, D.C. He has consulted on cases in the United States, Canada, Asia, Africa, and Europe, including WorldCom's bankruptcy, Ford/Firestone for the auto maker, a class action lawsuit against Cooper Tires and more. He was a journalist with CBS News, WUSA-Washington, D.C., and the BBC. ELLIOT JASPIN is systems editor for Cox Newspapers. His numerous awards include a Pulitzer Prize and a Kiplinger award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism from the National Press Foundation. While a fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University in 1988, he developed software that allowed a personal computer to be used in CAR. He founded what is now NICAR. DAVID CAY JOHNSTON is a reporter for The New York Times. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2001. This fall his book Perfectly Legal will show through the lives of individuals how government policy forces most Americans to subsidize the super rich. KEN KALTHOFF is a reporter/anchor at KXAS-Dallas/Fort Worth. He was embedded for NBC with U.S. Marines in Iraq. He has worked at stations in Houston, Tampa, Orlando and Mobile. His awards include Emmys for investigative reporting on Florida convicts and a for reporting on U.S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon. DAVE KANSAS is acting editor of The Wall Street Journal's Money & Investing section. He occasionally writes for the Journal and is a guest on radio and television programs, commenting on the financial markets and investing. He has been deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com, editor in chief of TheStreet.com, a reporter at The Journal and Newsday, and an engineer and reporter at the NBC Radio Network. He is the author of TheStreet.com Guide to Investing in the Internet Era. DAVID E. KAPLAN is chief investigative correspondent at U.S. News & World Report in Washington, DC., where he covers terrorism, organized crime, and intelligence. Among his books are The Cult at the End of the World, on the doomsday sect that nerve gassed Tokyo's subway, and YAKUZA, on the Japanese mafia. His awards include honors from IRE, the American Bar Association, Overseas Press Club, and World Affairs Council. A former Fulbright scholar, he has reported from more than a dozen countries and has trained hundreds of journalists in his workshops. MARK KATCHES is the investigative editor at The Orange County Register. He helped lead the expansion of The Register's investigative team from three to 11 members and has served in his current role since February 2001. DAN KEATING is database editor at The Washington Post. He has written about Ford Explorers, Florida ballots, the 2000 Census and the impact of poverty concentration on student performance. He was part of The Miami Herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1999 for exposing vote fraud and part of the team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting in 1998 for revealing illegal police overtime. He worked in The Herald's Key West Bureau and at The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass. KITTY KELLEY is an author whose past three books - The Royals; Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography; Frank Sinatra, His Way -have been No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list. Formerly a press assistant to a U.S. Senator and the editorial page researcher for The Washington Post, her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, People, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. DAN KENNEDY is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix and a regular commentator on media issues for the public-affairs program Greater Boston, on WGBH-Boston. He is the 2001 winner of the National Press Club¹s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. His book, Little People: Learning to See the World Through My Daughter¹s Eyes, will be published this fall. ARMEN KETEYIAN is a special features reporter for CBS Sports covering the NFL with the network's top broadcast team, the NCAA basketball tournament, as well as anchoring award-winning coverage of the Tour de France. The winner of six Emmy awards, he is also a correspondent for HBO Sport's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel and is the author or co-author of eight books. NEIL KING covers international trade and globalization, as well as Iraq reconstruction, for The Wall Street Journal. He was formerly a Journal correspondent in Europe, first in Prague and later in Brussels. During those years he covered subjects such as the post-Communist transition in Eastern Europe, the birth of the European single currency, and the war in Kosovo. WILLIAM KISTNER is a reporter and producer based in Washington and an associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He has contributed to PBS Frontline, the Discovery Channel, and CBS' 60 Minutes, and has written stories for national magazines and major newspapers. He has been a staff producer with ABC News Day One in Washington, a staff reporter with the Center for Investigative Reporting and he as served as a writer and news editor with Professional Pilot magazine in Washington. DAN KLAIDMAN is the Washington bureau chief for Newsweek where he was formerly Jerusalem bureau chief and a Washington correspondent. He has helped direct Newsweek's 9/11 and its aftermath. He continues to report and write about the crisis in the Middle East, including co-authoring a recent cover story on the future of Israel. He has been a senior reporter for Legal Times and American Lawyer Magazine. He is winner of American Lawyer Magazine's first-place media award for enterprise reporting. KRIS KOLESNIK is executive director of the National Whistleblower Center. He was senior counselor and director of investigations for Sen. Charles Grassley's (Iowa) Judiciary Sub-Committee and as legislative assistant during the Senator's defense reform campaign. He played an integral role in the passage of the False Claims Act and the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 and other major whistleblower legislation. TONY KOVALESKI is an investigative reporter at KMGH-Denver. Some of his reports have led to the firing of a school superintendent, shut down a steroid-peddling medical clinic, forced school districts to fire and discipline unqualified bus drivers, exposed unscrupulous telemarketers and more, He has been honored with 17 Emmys, two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and recognized by the Houston Press Club, the Dallas Press club and The Associated Press. He has worked in Houston, Phoenix, Reno and Eureka, Calif. JONATHAN KRIM is technology policy writer for The Washington Post. Prior to joining The Post, he was executive editor of TheStreet.com, an online financial news service. Most of his career was spent in editing and senior management positions at the San Jose Mercury News, including responsibility for local and business news. He supervised two Mercury News Pulitzer-winning efforts. JIM KUHNHENN is the congressional correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers. He has been the Knight Ridder Washington bureau's government and politics editor and worked for The Kansas City Star as Washington bureau chief, deputy national editor and reporter. He will be reporting on the presidential campaign, the fifth presidential contest he has covered as a reporter or editor. STEPHEN LABATON covers regulatory issues and legal affairs at The New York Times. He joined The Times in 1986 and was transferred to the Washington Bureau in 1990. He is a graduate of Tufts University and Duke University School of Law and is a member of the bar in New York and Connecticut. JENNIFER LAFLEUR is the McCormick Tribune Journalism Fellow at The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press where she is learning and writing about media law and free-press issues. Before her fellowship, she was the computer-assisted reporting editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She started the CAR program at the San Jose Mercury News, where she wrote an award-winning column about public records. She was the first training director for NICAR and has served on IRE's First Amendment Committee. Beginning this fall, she will be the CAR editor for The Dallas Morning News. ELISABETH LEAMY is the consumer reporter and senior investigative reporter at WTTG-Washington, DC. Prior to that she worked at WFLA-Tampa. She has won ten Emmys, four regional Murrows and was a Livingston Award finalist. She has turned her consumer reporting into a book, The Savvy Consumer, to be published in February 2004. JEFF LEEN is investigations editor at The Washington Post. He previously worked at The Miami Herald. As a reporter or editor, he has had a key role in major investigative projects, including examinations of cocaine trafficking, drug interdiction, money laundering, criminal justice, hurricane damage, police shootings, social services, plutonium poisoning, pharmaceuticals, bad meat, 9/11, Enron and The Nature Conservancy. ANDY LEHREN is a Dateline NBC investigative producer specializing in CAR. 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's written for The Philadelphia Daily News, Reuters, the Philadelphia Business Journal and two deceased dailies. LEE LEVINE is a partner in the law firm of Levine Sullivan & Koch, L.L.P. and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. He represents clients in libel, invasion of privacy, newsgathering and other First Amendment-related cases. He is past chair of the American Bar Association's Forum on Communications Law and has argued, on behalf of the media, Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton and Bartnicki v. Vopper in the U.S. Supreme Court. He is co-author of Newsgathering and the Law. CHARLES LEWIS is the founder and executive director of The Center for Public Integrity, which won an IRE Award this year and has won two Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award. He is a former producer for CBS News' 60 Minutes and the co-author of four Center books, The Buying of the President, The Buying of the Congress, The Buying of the President 2000 and The Cheating of America. In 1998, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. HARVY LIPMAN is the director of special projects at the Chronicle of Philanthropy in Washington, where he is in charge of computer-assisted reporting, overall data analysis, and in-depth reporting projects. Before that he held a similar position with the Albany, N.Y., Times Union, serving as projects editor. He has worked for CNN in Washington, WJLA-Washington, D.C., the Valley Advocate in Springfield, Mass. and the late Buffalo Courier-Express. STEVE LOVELADY is a freelance editor who has worked at the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Time Inc. At The Inquirer he assigned or edited 11 Pulitzer Prize-winning projects. At Time Inc, working at Time, Fortune and Sports Illustrated, he produced four National Magazine Award finalists and three winners. TOBY A. LYLES is a news researcher with The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. She assists reporters with research and assists with the John Edwards Weblog. She is the researcher for the Q section and the television program Headline Sunday. Her background is in news and academic librarianship and in software publishing. JAMES P. LYNCH is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He has written extensively on crime statistics, including Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics: Why the UCR diverges from the NCS (with Albert Biderman), Juvenile Justice Statistics: An agenda for action and numerous articles. He was involved in the redesign of the Nation Crime Survey and the Uniform Crime Reports and chaired the American Statistical Association's Committee on Law and Justice Statistics. THOMAS MAIER is a writer for Newsday and an author. He has written Dr. Spock: An American Life and Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power and Glory of America's Richest Media Empire and the Secretive Man Behind It. His next book, The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings will be published this fall. His awards include the national Society of Professional Journalists' top reporting prize and the first-place prize from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. He has worked at the Chicago Sun-Times and been an adjunct professor at Hofstra University. JOHN G. MALCOLM is a deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, where he oversees the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, the Child Exploitation & Obscenity Section, the Domestic Security Section and the Office of Special Investigations. As an assistant U.S. attorney in Atlanta, Ga., he was assigned to the fraud and public corruption section, and was an associate independent counsel investigating fraud and abuse at HUD. He was a partner at the Atlanta law firm of Malcolm & Schroeder, L.L.P. JAMES A. MALLORY is managing editor/operations and initiatives at The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. His previous roles there include deputy managing editor in charge of local and business news, assistant managing editor, news personnel manager responsible for recruiting, hiring and internships and assistant business editor and business reporter. He was a reporter and assistant business editor at The Detroit News and a business reporter at The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press and The Lansing (Mich.) State Journal. He has served on the board of governors for the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Minority Media Executives and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. MIKE MANSUR is a local government reporter for The Kansas City Star, where he has covered education, the environment and a lot of tornadoes. Since moving to the local government beat, he has uncovered wasteful city spending on cell phones, take-home vehicles and high overtime. 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. WILLOUGHBY MARIANO is a staff writer in the Osceola County bureau of the Orlando Sentinel. She received a first-place National Headliner Award in investigative reporting for a series on overseas laborers she co-wrote and reported with The (Baltimore) Sun reporter Walter F. Roche. She has worked at the Greenwich (Conn.) Time and the Los Angeles Times. JOAN MARTELLI is a producer for ABC News' PrimeTime. Previously she was a producer at CBS News' 48 Hours, Street Stories and the CBS Evening News and spent 10 years in local news in Seattle, Omaha, Chicago and Washington DC. She has won several awards for investigative reporting including the IRE, Dupont Columbia, CINE and National Press Club Awards. She is working on a documentary about the Iraq war. DAVID MARTIN is national security correspondent for CBS News. He reports on defense and international affairs for the CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes II and 48 Hours. He won a 2002 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. He covered defense and intelligence matters for Newsweek magazine, covered the FBI and CIA for The Associated Press and was a member of the AP's special assignment team. He is the author of Wilderness of Mirrors, an account of the secret wars between the CIA and KGB, and Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism. KATE MARTIN is director of the Center for National Security Studies. Her previous job was director of the Center's litigation project. She is also general counsel to the National Security Archive. As a recognized expert in the field of national security and civil liberties, she frequently testifies before Congress and teaches Strategic Intelligence and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law School. She formerly was a partner with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Nussbaum, Owen & Webster. KAREN MASTERSON covers Congress for the Houston Chronicle and is a former congressional aide. Previously, she covered environmental issues as a suburban reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer's South Jersey bureau. She interned at The (Baltimore) Sun and Hagerstown Herald-Mail. STEPHEN D. MASTROFSKI is professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University. His research includes measuring police performance and assessing police reforms. He has studied the public's image of the police, police disrespect toward the public, evaluations of community policing and Compstat, and the "romance of police leadership." He has received the Academy of Criminal Justice Science's O. W. Wilson Award for outstanding contributions to police education, research, and practice. KEN MCCALL is the database reporter for the Dayton Daily News. He worked on the Down on the Factory series that was a 2003 finalist for the Goldsmith Prize. He has covered government and politics for the paper. A former Kiplinger Fellow, he has also worked as a columnist and special projects writer at the Las Vegas Sun, and as an assistant city editor, reporter and columnist at the San Luis Obispo, Calif., Tribune. ROBERT McCLURE is environment reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where he won the John B. Oakes Award for distinguished environmental coverage and other awards. He previously worked at the Sun-Sentinel in South Florida, where he covered environment for a decade, won numerous awards and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. He started his career at UPI. CRAIG R. MCCOY is an investigative reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has reported on vote fraud, Medicaid profiteering, gun trafficking, insider deals involving nonprofits, police "downgrading" of crime reports and police mistreatment of rape victims. He was part of a team whose work on the Philadelphia police was a finalist for a public-service Pulitzer. The coverage won a Seldon Ring Award for investigative reporting and a Roy Howard Award. He has worked as the Trenton and City Hall bureau chiefs and as city editor. PAUL MCENROE is an investigative reporter in the projects unit at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He worked as a unilateral journalist in Iraq-Kurdistan for more than two months during the U.S.-led war on Iraq. He and a Star Tribune photographer were smuggled into Kurdistan from Turkey. He also worked as a unilateral in 1991 covering the Gulf War and, as a result, was among the first journalists to enter Kuwait City. He covered the war in Croatia and Bosnia for a brief time. He is a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Grand Prize. MIKE MCGRAW is a special projects reporter for The Kansas City Star, where his projects have included 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 former member of IRE's board of directors. MIKE MCINTIRE is the investigations editor for The Hartford Courant. As a reporter there he covered Hartford City Hall, criminal justice and investigative projects. He was a 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Investigative Reporting on medical malpractice and was a lead reporter on the Courant's Pulitzer-winning coverage of a workplace massacre in Connecticut. He worked for several other Connecticut newspapers and was a national investigative reporter for The Associated Press in New York City. SHAWN MCINTOSH is deputy managing editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she supervises the projects department and works on improving writing and editing. She is president of the IRE board of directors and previously was executive editor of The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. She has held reporting, editing and projects jobs at The Dallas Morning News, USA Today and the Macon Telegraph. JOHN MCQUAID is a special projects reporter for The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune concentrating on science, politics, and the environment. He was the lead reporter on a series on global fisheries issues that won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1997. His work has won national awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as the John B. Oakes Award for environmental journalism. BARRY MEIER is a reporter at The New York Times specializing in reporting on business, public health and safety. Prior to joining The Times he was a special projects reporter for Newsday and a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He was a recipient of the 2002 George Polk Award for Health Care Reporting and recently completed a year as a Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow. He is the author of the forthcoming book Pain Killer, a look at the business of treating pain and prescription drug abuse told through the story of OxyContin. JEFFREY MEITRODT is special projects editor of The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune. He won a 2002 Gerald Loeb Award for a five-day series that uncovered abuses in local programs aimed at helping disadvantaged firms and a 2002 National Headliner award for a series that exposed nepotism and drug problems among Louisiana's close-knit fraternity of river pilots. He joined The Times-Picayune as a business reporter. ROBIN MEJIA is an associate reporter with the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco, and this year her work is supported by a Soros Media Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute. Her stories have run in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, New Scientist and other magazines and newspapers. LAWRENCE MESSINA covers the West Virginia Statehouse for The Associated Press. He previously handled the courts and special projects for the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette. His coverage of the medical malpractice issue for the Gazette won several awards, including an honorable mention from the American Bar Association in its Silver Gavel contest. JOSH MEYER is a staff writer in the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau, covering terrorism and law enforcement issues. His work about Al Qaeda and other terrorism issues before and after 9/11 was included in several awards won by the paper. He has covered federal law enforcement from Los Angeles, Los Angeles County government and investigative beats. DAN MEYERS is the projects editor of The Denver Post and the former business editor. He was a reporter with Knight-Ridder in California and Washington, D.C. before joining The Philadelphia Inquirer where he covered state politics and city government before opening a national bureau in Denver. ALAN C. MILLER is a national staff writer in the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Los Angeles Times. He and Kevin Sack won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for The Vertical Vision, a four-part series about the Marine Corps' Harrier jet. The series was recognized with a certificate in the IRE Awards. He previously worked at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., and The Times Union in Albany, N.Y. His other awards include the George Polk Award and the Goldsmith Prize. JUDY MILLER is assistant managing editor/metro 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. STEPHEN C. MILLER is assistant to the technology editor at The New York Times. He oversees the training of reporters and editors in the use of new technologies and helps determine the news department's computer and telecommunications needs. He also writes about computers and consumer electronics for the paper. He started his career in broadcasting, spending 17 years at CBS News. DAVID A. MILLIRON is director of computer-assisted reporting and analysis for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and author of The Ultimate Atlanta School Guide, now in its fourth printing. He has worked for the Fort Myers, Fla., News-Press, The Tampa Tribune and Gannett News Service in Washington, D.C. He also teaches journalism at Emory University in Atlanta. ANNE MINTZ is the editor of Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet, published by Cyberage Books. Focused on intentional misinformation, it covers scams and other spurious information in the areas of health/medicine, business, charity scams, search engine pay-for-placement and hoaxes, as well as how to evaluate a Web site and how a search engine works. VINCE MORRIS covers Congress in the D.C. bureau of the New York Post and recently returned from Iraq where he was embedded with U.S. Marines. He spends a lot of time with Sen. Hillary Clinton but also traveled with Al Gore in the 2000 election and wrote about the 1998-99 independent counsel investigation and impeachment proceedings. He's worked previously in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. BLAKE MORRISON is a national reporter at USA Today, where he works on investigations and projects. He covered aviation security after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. While at the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, he was part of the team that covered a cheating scandal involving the University of Minnesota men's basketball team, stories that earned myriad awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in Beat Reporting. He teaches reporting and writing at the University of Maryland. SEAN MOULTON is a senior policy analyst at OMB Watch, focusing on information policy with special attention on environmental information and right-to-know issues. He has worked as an environmental researcher and data manager for the Council on Economic Priorities, as the tax policy analyst at Friends of the Earth and as a research fellow and contract employee with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. JOE MOZINGO is a reporter at The Miami Herald where he began a series that exposed influence peddling and corruption at Miami International Airport. The work won the 2nd place National Headliner Award for Public Service and was a finalist for the IRE Medal. He previously was a metro writer at the Los Angeles Times. ANNE C. MULKERN covers national news in The Denver Post's Washington D.C. bureau and investigates corporate America's influence on lawmakers and regulators. Recent stories exposed how the FCC and SEC accepted hundreds of trips funded by regulated businesses. She also investigated the USDA's ties to the meat industry. She previously worked for The Orange County Register. ALICIA MUNDY is the author of Dispensing With the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies and the Dramatic Story behind the Battle over Fen-Phen. A former reporter for U.S. News & World Report, she broke the United Way of America scandal in Regardie's Magazine in 1992. Currently the Washington bureau chief for Cable World, she also contributes to Washington Monthly. JAMES NEFF is investigations editor for The Seattle Times and the author of four books, most recently The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case. He wrote and co-reported The Terrorist Within, a 15-day investigative narrative that was a finalist this year for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting. JOSEPH NEFF is an investigative reporter for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. He began working as a reporter in 1989 for The Associated Press in New York. He covered breaking news and the federal courts for the AP in Newark, N.J., and moved to The News & Observer in 1992. He has covered prisons, police, the courts and the legislature. DEBORAH NELSON is the investigative editor/Washington for the Los Angeles Times. She has managed two Pulitzer Prize projects, including this year's winner in National Reporting: Vertical Vision by Alan C. Miller and Kevin Sack. As a reporter, she produced two dozen investigative projects and shared the Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting for a Seattle Times series on Indian housing. It was edited by her co-panelist David Boardman. CHUCK NEUBAUER is a member of the Los Angeles Times investigative team in Washington, D.C. During his 28 years as an investigative reporter in Chicago, his stories helped lead to the indictment of a number of Illinois politicians. In Chicago, HE worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and earlier for the Chicago Tribune. In 1976, Neubauer shared in a Pulizer Prize for a Tribune series on abuses in federal housing programs. RON NIXON is the training director for IRE and NICAR. As an investigative reporter with The Roanoke (Va.) Times he covered issues in Appalachia. He co-wrote an investigation, using database analysis, of the Virginia forestry industry. He has won numerous state awards, including the public service award from the Virginia Press Association. He helps conduct seminars, workshops and Boot Camps on CAR for print and broadcast journalists. LAWRENCE NOBLE is the executive director and general counsel of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that tracks money in politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Prior to joining the center, he served as general counsel of the Federal Election Commission. He teaches campaign finance law at George Washington University Law School. ASRA Q. NOMANI, a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has been crisscrossing the globe while on book leave, researching issues from Islam to sexuality and terrorism. Her first book, Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love was released in May. It chronicles her travels through India and Pakistan. She reported from Pakistan after 9/11 for Salon magazine. She is writing Daughters of Hajira about her recent pilgrimage to Mecca and Jerusalem. ROBERT O'HARROW is an enterprise reporter on the financial desk at The Washington Post. In 1998, he created a beat to examine the impact of the data revolution on society. Now he is on leave, with help from the Center for Investigative Reporting, to write a book about the government's rapidly expanding use of private data and surveillance technology to secure the nation and fight the war on terror. MEGAN O'MATZ is a general assignment reporter at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. She has written about Florida's clumsy voters, its con artists and its killers. She has reported extensively on Florida's child welfare system and was one of three reporters to locate nine of Florida's missing foster children, which demonstrated the incompetence of state workers. She was a news clerk for The New York Times bureau in Washington and later joined The Pittsburgh Press, where she won awards for an investigation of the county's foster care system. She covered the statehouse for The (Allentown, Pa.) Morning Call. RICHARD O'REILLY is director of computer analysis at the Los Angeles Times. Recently he was responsible for the CAR component of the Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning series on the dangers of the U.S. Marines Harrier attack fighter. The series also won an IRE Certificate. Previous projects had been finalists twice in the Pulitzer competition and won an IRE Medal. PAUL OVERBERG is a database editor at USA Today, where he has analyzed everything from sprawl to Oscars to purebred dog registrations and has led Census 2000 coverage. He helps train USA Today's journalists, has helped teach a series of IRE workshops about using Census 2000 data and has taught CAR at George Washington University. He has been a reporter and editor at Gannett News Service and at the Courier-News in Bridgewater, N.J. PETER OVERBY covers political money, lobbying and campaign finance reform for NPR News. In 2002, he received a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton for reporting that "set the bar for stories about money, power and political influence." Earlier, he was senior editor at Common Cause Magazine -- where he shared the 1994 IRE magazine award -- and a reporter for two daily papers. MARCUS S. OWENS is a member of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, where he specializes in federal tax issues relating to tax-exempt organizations. He spent 25 years with the Internal Revenue Service, including serving as director of the Exempt Organizations Division where he was responsible for federal tax rulings and enforcement programs for charities and other tax-exempt organizations. He is a member of the board of directors for the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance. GERI D. PALAST is the executive director of the Justice at Stake Campaign. She was Assistant Secretary of Labor for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs during President Clinton's two terms, chaired the Committee on Women in the Global Economy for the President's Interagency Council on Women and was a negotiator on the U.S. delegation to Women 2000 at the United Nations. She served as political and legislative director of Service Employees International Union and established the National Employment Law Project, Washington Office, for the Legal Services Corporation. DOUG PARDUE is projects editor for USA Today's news department. 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 from 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 also was senior editor for investigations and enterprise at The Tampa Tribune. JUDY PASTERNAK is a member of the Washington-based investigative team at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she was the Times' co-bureau chief in Chicago for nearly six years. She was a general assignment reporter and covered various beats in Los Angeles, including Malibu, smog and science. Before joining the Times in 1984, she worked for the Hollywood, Fla., Sun-Tattler, the Baltimore News American and the Detroit Free Press. DOUGLAS PASTERNAK is a senior editor on the investigative team at U.S. News & World Report focusing on national security issues. Two of his cover stories have been finalists for a National Magazine Award, including a story that disclosed waste, fraud and abuse in the Department of Energy's environmental cleanup program at the nation's nuclear weapons complex. A Nuclear Nightmare exposed critical security flaws at U.S. nuclear power plants and was published one day before 9/11. MARIANE PEARL has circled the globe reporting for broadcast and print outlets in different languages. Her book, A Mighty Heart, is scheduled for publication in October and will be a memoir of her husband Daniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal who was kidnapped and slain in Pakistan in early 2002. From the base in Bombay, India, she shared with her husband, Pearl explored the subculture of the Indian subcontinent with magazine features for the weekly Télérama. After 9/11, she reported from Pakistan and examined media coverage of the war in Afghanistan. She made her mark in television documentaries in 2001, when she reported and produced a series on the sensitive issues surrounding the application of genetic technology to contemporary challenges. In Paris, Pearl used her daily radio program for RFI to explore issues of society, identity and politics. CHERYL PHILLIPS is an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times where she has looked at the correlation between traffic stops and race and examined problems at a public television station. She also was part of a team covering the Beltway sniper story, which was a Pulitzer finalist. Previously, as CAR editor for USA Today's sports section, she was involved in creating an index to measure the baseball player of the week and a projecton charities operated by sports figures. She has also been a CAR projects editor at The Detroit News, covered local government and the state legislature at the Great Falls Tribune and was a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. NANCY PHILLIPS is a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer who specializes in investigative projects. She has won numerous honors for stories that among other things, exposed a sitting mayor's ties to a thriving and violent cocaine ring, revealed how profligate spending and political favoritism pushed a local port agency to the brink of financial ruin and uncovered a hidden, but longstanding practice of physical abuse by police officers. She won a special citation in this year's IRE Awards for her investigation into the bludgeoning death of a New Jersey woman that ended up solving the case. ARON PILHOFER is database editor at The Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC. He joined the center after working on IRE's national training staff and as director of IRE's Campaign Finance Information Center. Prior to joining IRE, he was a project reporter at The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., The Courier-News in Bridgewater, N.J., and covered politics and state government for the Gannett New Jersey State Bureau. WALTER PINCUS is a writer for the national staff of The Washington Post. He has been a consultant to NBC News and CBS News. He has also worked for The Wall Street Journal, three North Carolina newspapers, the Washington Star and was executive editor of The New Republic. At The Post, he has written about subjects ranging from nuclear weapons and arms control to political campaigns to the American hostages in Iran to investigations of Congress and the Executive Branch. He shared a 2001 Pulitzer for National Reporting, for stories about Osama bin Laden. His other awards include a George Polk Award, a Page One award and an Emmy. TONY PIPITONE is an investigative reporter at WKMG-Orlando. He has received six Emmys, four regional Murrow Awards, and is a two-time IRE Awards finalist. He has twice been voted the most outstanding television reporter in the state by the Florida Associated Press - two of his more than a dozen Florida AP awards. Before switching to television in 1987, he was a reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun. DUANE POHLMAN is the chief investigative reporter for WEWS-Cleveland. His recent investigations, from questionable real estate practices by a city councilman to out-of-control spending by managers at a drug rehab clinic, have resulted in suspensions and substantial investigations by federal, state and local authorities. He has won more than three dozen national, regional and state awards. He is treasurer of IRE's board of directors. ANNA POLITKOVSKAIA is special correspondent of the twice-weekly Novaya Gazeta, an independent newspaper in Moscow. Her stories on the war in Chechnya have received worldwide attention, and she was the only journalist allowed inside an auditorium before Chechen terrorists were gassed in 2002. Her book Voyage to an Inferno: Chechen Journal was translated into Norwegian and English (as The Dirty War). She has won numerous Russian and international journalism awards. She is working on a book titled Putin's Russia. ED POUND is assistant managing editor for investigations at U.S. News & World Report. He has reported on Washington for 26 years, writing about subjects that include problems at the Department of Defense, national security affairs, and political corruption. He has worked for The Washington Star, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. STEPHEN POWER is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering transportation from Washington, D.C. Before the Journal, he reported for The Dallas Morning News and interned at The Boston Globe. RICHARD PRINCE chairs the Media Monitoring Committee of the National Association of Black Journalists as well as the Diversity Committee of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, and he writes Journal-isms, a three-times-a-week column on diversity issues in the news media for the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education Web site. He works as a part-time copy editor on The Washington Post foreign news desk, and edits a news service for black college students, which aims to improve college newspapers and increase their frequency. He has edited The Public i, an online news report produced by the Center for Public Integrity. LAURE QUINLIVAN is an I-Team reporter at WCPO-Cincinnati. Her investigations have been awarded two prestigious George Foster Peabody Awards, along with the Alfred I. DuPont, Sigma Delta Chi Award, IRE Award, the Walter Cronkite Award and a regional Murrow Award. Her documentary, Visions of Vine Street, helped inspire the city to revitalize its urban core. DAVID RAZIQ is the investigative producer at KHOU-Houston. He has won many national awards for investigative work including this year's IRE Award in Top 20 stations. Raziq previously worked at ABC News 20/20 and KSTP-Minneapolis/St. Paul. He also studied and taught journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism and has guest-taught at the University of Southern California. SCOTT M. REID is a sports enterprise/investigative reporter for The Orange County Register. He was the lead writer on a series exposing community colleges' phantom sports classes for high school athletes. The series led to an immediate statewide audit, won a top Associated Press Sports Editors award and was a finalist for the IRE Award. He recently led a team that exposed problems in the Olympic drug-testing program. He previously worked at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Dallas Times Herald. MICHAEL REZENDES, a member of The Boston Globe's Spotlight Team, has been a reporter and editor at the paper since 1989. He was part of the team that broke the story of clergy sexual abuse and co-authored the book, Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church. He has been the paper's City Hall bureau chief, a roving national correspondent, a weekly essayist and a political reporter covering local, state and presidential elections. He has been a reporter at The Washington Post and the San Jose Mercury News. ROBERT ROACH is counsel and chief investigator for the Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He has more than 12 years of experience as an investigator for congressional oversight committees. Most recently, he led the subcommittee's investigation into the role of financial institutions in Enron's collapse; investigated the vulnerabilities of correspondent banking to money laundering; and investigated the connections between private banking and money laundering. WALTER V. ROBINSON is an assistant managing editor of The Boston Globe and editor of the Spotlight Team. During nearly 20 years as a political reporter, he covered state and local politics and spent seven years in The Globe's Washington bureau. He reported on four presidential elections and was Middle East bureau chief during the Gulf War. He has served as The Globe's city editor, assistant managing editor for local news and roving national and foreign correspondent. WALTER F. ROCHE JR is a reporter at The (Baltimore) Sun. He has worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Boston Herald, WBZ-Boston and United Press International. He shared a National Headliners Award for investigative reporting earlier this year for a series on the exploitation of Micronesians and Marshallese recruited to work in the United States. MARK J. ROCHESTER is an assistant managing editor at The Denver Post, where he oversees the Sunday newspaper, national and foreign reporting, and investigative projects. Rochester was previously enterprise editor at Newsday, and AME/Projects at The Indianapolis Star. He has led award-winning investigations on nursing homes, education, crime, campaign finance, medical misconduct and property tax inequities. Rochester is an IRE board member. SAM ROE is a projects reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where he has written about beryllium poisoning, terrorism and the nation's failed Supercar program. Previously, he was a projects reporter at The (Toledo) Blade. He has won numerous awards, including an IRE medal. In 2000, he was a Pulitzer finalist for investigative reporting. DAVID ROGERS is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering issues in politics and Congress, as well as U.S. intelligence agencies. He has been published in The Atlantic and previously worked for The Boston Globe and The Perth Amboy Evening News (now The News Tribune) in Middlesex County, N.J., before and after a 1969 tour in Vietnam as a combat medic. IRA ROSEN is a senior producer for ABC News and senior investigative producer for PrimeTime Thursday. Under his leadership, PrimeTime Live won numerous prizes for distinguished investigative reporting. In addition to a Neiman Fellowship at Harvard in 1987, he has won 20 national Emmy Awards, five IRE Awards, and Alfred DuPont-Columbia Awards for reporting on subjects ranging from police protection of Chicago drug dealers, an investigation of how U.S. officials granted sanctuary to Nazis in return for information about the Soviet Union. He worked at 60 Minutes for nine years, where he produced segments primarily for Mike Wallace. SETH ROSENFELD is a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. He has specialized in legal affairs and investigative reporting for more than 20 years. He received IRE's latest FOI Award for his expose, The Campus Files: Reagan, Hoover and the UC Red Scare, which uncovered wide-ranging and unlawful FBI activities at the University of California during the Cold War. The story was drawn from more than 200,000 pages of FBI documents that Rosenfeld obtained as a result of three Freedom of Information Act lawsuits he independently brought in a 17-year-legal battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. KEVIN SACK joined the Los Angeles Times as an Atlanta-based investigative reporter in 2002. With Alan C. Miller, he co-authored The Vertical Vision, an investigation of safety problems plaguing the Marine Corps' Harrier attack jet that won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and an IRE Award. Previously, he was a reporter for The New York Times, where he was a bureau chief in both Atlanta and Albany. In 2000, he wrote the lead article for How Race is Lived in America, another Pulitzer-winning series. JONATHAN D. SALANT is a reporter for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. He was the Washington correspondent for the Syracuse, N.Y., newspapers. He co-authored the revised edition of the Follow the Money Handbook. Salant is the immediate past chairman of the National Press Club's Board of Governors and a former president of the Regional Reporters Association and the Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. MARK SCHAPIRO is deputy editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco. His work appears in magazines such as Harpers, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly and on the PBS newsmagazine show, NOW With Bill Moyers. He focuses on international investigations, primarily in Europe and Latin America; his investigation last year into cigarette smuggling into Colombia (stories appearing in The Nation and on NOW) received a Kurt Schork Award for International Reporting. CHRISTOPHER H. SCHMITT is a senior writer for the investigative reporting team of U.S. News & World Report. Before joining U.S. News, he 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. FRED SCHULTE is investigative editor at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, where he has won many awards including the George Polk Award, IRE Award and the Gerald Loeb Award. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist three times: in 1987 for his reporting on excessive deaths in Veterans Administration hospitals, in 1996 for reporting on Florida HMO health plans for the poor and in 1999 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. GEOFF SHANDLER is the executive editor of Little, Brown & Co. He has published books by reporters from numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, The Nation, The New Yorker, AlterNet and others. RICHARD SHELBY is a U.S. senator from Alabama and chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Prior to this Congress, Shelby served on the Senate Intelligence Committee for eight years, during which time he investigated the intelligence failures that led to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He is also a member of the Appropriations Committee, Governmental Affairs Committee and Select Committee on Aging. NATALYA SHULYAKOVSKAYA is an investigative reporter specializing in CAR at The Orange County Register. Most recently she worked on a project exposing how community colleges reaped millions of dollars by counting high-school athletes as students, high-school coaches as college instructors and their regular practices as college-level courses; an investigation into workplace deaths and abuses; and lack of oversight in child care. She has worked for U.S. newspapers and NICAR, as well as reporting for English- and Russian-language media in her native Russia. BILL SIZEMORE is an investigative reporter at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. Over a 30-year journalism career, he has been a weekly newspaper editor and publisher and a reporter and editor at four Virginia dailies. He has covered city and state government and politics and has done investigative projects on prisons, philanthropies, child abuse, nursing homes and the televangelist Pat Robertson. KATHERINE M. SKIBA is a Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She was embedded with the 101st Airborne Division during the Iraq war. Her unit conducted air-assault missions from Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters. As a reporter and photographer, she has covered stories across the nation and throughout numerous other countries. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has many journalism awards, most recently for reporting on the 9/11 terror attacks. DAVID B. SMALLMAN is a partner in the New York office of the law firm Steinhart & Falconer 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. MARK SMITH is an investigative producer for WFAA-Dallas. He produced a series that helped lead to the dismissal of drug charges against more than 70 defendants. The series earned a Peabody and duPont, and was named a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize. Prior to joining WFAA, Smith was a newspaper reporter for 15 years. He worked as an investigative reporter with the Houston Chronicle. He also served as a state and national bureau chief with the San Antonio Express-News. DEBORAH SOLOMON is a reporter in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau covering the Securities and Exchange Commission and financial regulation. She was part of a team awarded the 2003 Pulitzer in Explanatory Reporting for a series exposing corporate scandals. Prior to working at The Journal, she worked at USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Birmingham Post-Herald. JOHN F. SOLOMON IV is assistant chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Washington, where he supervises AP's seven-member investigative team, supervises AP's multimedia coverage from Washington and oversees the administration, personnel and finances of AP's largest news bureau. He has won awards for spearheading AP's global coverage of the war on terrorism, for stories divulging what the FBI, CIA and other government agencies knew about the threat of a terror attack on U.S. soil before 9/11 and for a 1992 investigative series on Ross Perot's secret dealings with the Nixon Administration. 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 nuclear waste, the dismantling of America's middle class, the Olympics and Indian casinos. They have received virtually every major national journalism award, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Magazine Awards and four IRE Awards. BARRY STEINHARDT is director of the American Civil Liberties Union Program on Technology and Liberty. He was a co-founder of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign, and chair of the 2003 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. He is a member of the advisory Committee to the U.S. Census and was a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Genetics of the National Conference of State Legislatures and the U.S. delegation to the G-8 Government and Private Sector Tokyo conference on Cyber Crime. JOE STEPHENS is a member of The Washington Post investigative unit. He has written about political corruption, campaign violations, terrorism, the judiciary, white-collar crime and drug experiments conducted on Third World children. Last month, he co-authored Big Green: Inside The Nature Conservancy, which showed how the world's largest environmental group had done business with its board and its supporters, including corporations that had paid major environmental fines. HOLLY STEPP is education editor at The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. She supervises the newspaper's four K-12 reporters and its higher education reporter and is responsible for seven special sections on various education topics. She was a higher education reporter for The Miami Herald and has worked as a reporter for the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader, The Dallas Morning News, and the Chicago Tribune. AMIE STREATER covers special issues for the Pensacola News Journal, where she has been a reporter since 1995. Her work has earned many national and state journalism awards, including two National Headliner Awards, the George Polk Award, the Roy Howard Award and many others. Streater was the lead reporter on a 2002 investigation of corruption in Escambia County Government, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She previously worked at The Houston Post and the Pasadena (Texas) Citizen. MARGARET SULLIVAN is editor and vice president of The Buffalo News, where she began as a reporting intern in 1980. Sullivan was a reporter and metro columnist at The News before moving into various editing posts, including managing editor, and in 1999, became the paper's first woman editor. She created the paper's first investigative team earlier this year. LYNN SWEET is the Washington bureau chief and a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Her reporting ranges from local to international stories with an emphasis on politics and government. Previously she was the Sun-Times' political writer. She started at the paper in 1976 and was one of the first reporters in the nation to analyze political ads for accuracy. She also discovered the Clinton administration was trading White House access to big political donors. LIZ SZABO covers medicine for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. Her series of stories about Virginia's failure to protect patients from dangerous doctors prompted the state legislature to pass reform legislation. PIERRE THOMAS covers the Justice Department and law enforcement issues for ABC News. He has covered a variety of major stories including the Robert Hanssen FBI spy scandal, the Oklahoma City Bombing missing FBI files controversy, the Chandra Levy story, the 9/11 terrorist assault, the anthrax attacks and the post 9/11 U.S. investigation of terrorism. He is a former Washington Post reporter and CNN Justice Department correspondent. MARILYN W. THOMPSON is The Washington Post's assistant managing editor for investigations and author of The Killer Strain: Anthrax and a Government Exposed. She began her career at the Columbia (S.C.) Record and was named a Congressional Fellow in 1982. She worked at The Philadelphia Daily News and the New York Daily News before joining The Post. She also authored Feeding The Beast: How Wedtech Became the Most Corrupt Little Company in America and co-authored Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond. LEA THOMPSON is NBC's chief consumer correspondent. For the last 10 years she has covered health, safety, the environment and consumer goods and services for Dateline NBC. Before that she co-headed WRC-Washington's Investigative Unit. She has won numerous awards, including two IRE medals. Her work has spawned two books and was the driving force behind three acts of Congress, dozens of hearings, recalls of dangerous products and changes in business practices. 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. She has worked at The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, the Los Angeles Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and The Kansas City Star. MARK THOMPSON is national security correspondent for Time Magazine. He has recently been with U.S. troops in Afghanistan and the Philippines. Before that, his on-the-scene reports have included scouring the skies near northern Iraq with the U.S. Air Force, rolling into Kosovo with the U.S. Marines, and snaring the lone interview granted by the first woman to command a U.S. warship while billeted aboard her vessel in the Pacific. He came to Time in 1994 after covering the military for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. As a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his series on a helicopter design flaw allowed to fester for more than a decade, killing 250 U.S. servicemen. He has been a reporter at The Oakland (Mich.) Press and editor of the Rhode Island Pendulum in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. CHUCK TOBIN is a lawyer with the National Media Practice Group of Holland & Knight LLP, in the Washington D.C. office. The former journalist appears in state and federal courts representing the media in litigation involving libel, privacy, subpoenas, access and FOIA. He advises journalists on prepublication review and other matters relating to editorial content. He spent eight years as in-house counsel with Gannett Co. Inc., representing USA Today and the company's other newspapers and TV stations. Before law school, Tobin covered courts and cops for The News-Press in Ft. Myers, Fla. He is currently executive editor of Litigation, the ABA's Section of Litigation journal. AL TOMPKINS joined the Poynter Institute from his job as news director at WSMV-Nashville. He specializes in teaching writing, storytelling and reporting along with broadcast ethics and newsroom leadership. He is Poynter's group leader for Broadcasting and Online and produces an online story idea column, Al's Morning Meeting. He won several journalism awards during his years as a reporter, producer, photojournalist and news director. He is the author Aim For The Heart: A Guide for TV Producers and Reporters. JAMES TRAINUM has been a detective for the Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police since 1983. Before that he was a paramedic in Arlington County, Va. In addition to solving the 1997 D.C. Starbucks triple homicide with FBI Agent Brad Garrett, Trainum has served on the D.C.-FBI Cold Case Squad and run the MPD/FBI Predator Murder Project, an analysis of 392 unsolved homicides. He is vice chairman of the advisory board for the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. RICK TULSKY reports and helps coordinate investigative projects at the San Jose Mercury News. Tulsky, a former IRE board president, considers himself lucky to have won many national journalism awards, and luckier still to have had the chance to undertake projects that win such awards for almost three decades, at papers large and small. KAREN TUMULTY is Time's national political correspondent in Washington, D.C. Previously, she covered the White House, Al Gore's presidential campaign, Congress and President Clinton's impeachment. She previously worked at the Los Angeles Times covering Congress, economics, business, energy, and general assignment beats. She won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism and the National Press Foundation Edwin Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence. 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: Advance methods and techniques. ANDRÉ VERLÖY is associate director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists at the Center for Public Integrity. The Norway native has worked on ICIJ projects ranging from international arms traffickers and tobacco smuggling to the privatization of water. He joined the center as an intern in 2000 while completing his master's degree at American University. He worked as a managing editor for the only nationally distributed college news program while in graduate school and, prior to that, spent three years as an assignment editor at NorthWest Cable News in Seattle. GREGORY L. VISTICA is a producer with 60 Minutes II and the author of The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey and Fall From Glory: the Men Who Sank the U.S. Navy. Formerly the national security correspondent for Newsweek, Vistica is the recipient of the Peabody Award, the George Polk Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. BARBARA VOBEJDA is projects editor on the metro staff of The Washington Post where she has worked on the metro, investigative and national staffs. She has covered education, demographics and social policy issues, including welfare reform and the illegal gun trade. She previously worked as a reporter at The Honolulu Advertiser and the Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News and spent a year working on Capitol Hill as a congressional fellow with the American Political Science Association. JOHN VOSKUHL is the assistant managing editor for projects at the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. He worked as a reporter for 10 years for The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal, where his beats included state government, Appalachian Kentucky and government accountability. He served on the print judges' panel for the 2003 National Headliner Awards. PAUL WAGNER covers the crime beat for WTTG-Washington D.C. He has broken local and national stories, including reporting that evidence indicated Chandra Levy had been murdered. His most recent investigation found D.C. police have lost evidence in dozens of unsolved murder cases and the probe led to an audit of the property warehouse. He has won an Emmy award for investigating youth violence, a national Edward R. Murrow award and three outstanding enterprise reporting awards from The Associated Press. MARY WALSH is the national security producer for CBS News, generating stories for the CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes II. The award-winning journalist has been assigned to the Pentagon since 1993 and has covered military stories all over the world. She formerly covered Asia as CBS News producer in Tokyo. She began her career at CBS as assistant to the political director. JOBY WARRICK is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. As a special projects reporter for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., he co-authored the series Boss Hog, winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and an IRE Award. He has covered the fall of communism as Vienna bureau chief for United Press International, and reported on government and the courts for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times. MICHAEL WEBER is a freelance investigative reporter based in Columbus, Ohio, and co-author of the soon-to-be-released IRE beat book Unstacking the Deck: A Reporter's Guide to Campaign Finance. He has been working with campaign finance data since 1985 when he built the first comprehensive database of New York City political contributions. He has won national, regional and local awards for his investigative and database reporting on political and environmental issues. STEVE WEINBERG is a freelance book author and magazine writer. After reporting for newspapers in Illinois, Iowa and Washington, D.C., he became executive director of IRE for seven years. He is senior contributing editor for The IRE Journal and he teaches occasionally at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is working on his seventh book and is in the final stages of a nationwide prosecutor study to be released by the Center for Public Integrity. ANNA WERNER is an investigative reporter for KHOU-Houston. She and her team are best known for their work on the Firestone tire story, which led to the largest tire recall in U.S. history. She spent much of her career as a reporter in the Midwest and she has earned the Peabody, duPont, Polk, two National Murrow awards, this year's IRE Award in Top 20 stations and others. ALICE HART WERTHEIM is an information researcher at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution where she serves as the liaison to the special projects team and the editorial staff. She also has worked at a public library, a community college and a law firm. MARIAN WILKINSON is the Washington correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, and has served as the Herald's former deputy editor and national affairs editor. She began her journalism career in public radio and at the national weekly paper, The National Times, where she reported on politics, organized crime and corruption. In 1990, she became executive producer of Four Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation's award-winning investigative news television program. BROOKE WILLIAMS is a researcher at the Center for Public Integrity. She worked as a cops and courts reporter for the Columbia Missourian and investigated the possible wrongful conviction of a man on Missouri's death row. She also worked as the Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Daily Herald and The Topeka Capital-Journal. She is part of a three-person team conducting a study of local prosecutors. 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 its instant book on post-election 2000 events, Deadlock and is currently keeping track of Iraq war casualties, terrorism suspects and detainees. She is the co-author of Great Scouts! CyberGuides for Subject Searching on the Web. She is a frequent speaker about reporting with the Internet at journalism and library seminars and conferences. PHIL WILLIAMS, chief investigative reporter for WTVF-Nashville, oversees the NewsChannel 5 Investigates Team with a focus on government corruption and waste. He has been recognized with numerous national and regional honors for his investigative reporting, including an IRE Award in this year's contest. A former newspaper reporter, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. 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 CQ's 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. DAVID WILLMAN is a reporter in the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau. He won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for exposing safety shortcomings in regulation of pharmaceuticals. His reporting has prompted the safety withdrawal of the diabetes drug, Rezulin, and caused officials to order significant repairs to Los Angeles' Memorial. He has won numerous professional honors, including the George Polk Award and the IRE Medal. CHRISTINE WILLMSEN is currently an investigative reporter for The Seattle Times. She was a Pulitzer finalist and IRE winner last year for a Dayton Daily News series about the influx of foreign athletes into America's amateur athletic programs. She recently worked on the Washington, D.C., sniper stories, another Pulitzer finalist. TRISH WILSON is a reporter at The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer, where she covers family issues. She has covered higher education and state news and was an editor for specialty topics at the paper. Previously, she worked as a reporter for The Palm Beach Post. She has won several awards for feature writing and news enterprise. In 1999, she won The Associated Press's highest state honor for excellence in editing. NANCI WILSON is an investigative reporter for KEYE-Austin. She is a member of board of directors of Criminal Justice Journalists and has experience as an investigator for a large law firm. She was most recently honored with the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for 2002 and a regional Edward R. Murrow award for her multi-part series on the Travis County Justice System. She holds a patent for a product designed to organize reporters. DUFF WILSON of The Seattle Times is a two-time winner of the Goldsmith Prize and three times in the past six years a Pulitzer finalist: in 2003 as part of staff reporting on the sniper arrests; in 2001 with David Heath for revealing deaths and conflicts-of-interest in cancer experiments; and in 1997 for Fear in the Fields: How hazardous wastes become fertilizer. The latter was expanded into a book, Fateful Harvest, winner of the IRE book award. Duff is also created the Reporter's Desktop (www.reporter.org/desktop) and is a member of the IRE and SEJ First Amendment committees. BOB WOODWARD is assistant managing editor for investigative news at The Washington Post. He teamed with Carl Bernstein to investigate the 1972 burglary at the Watergate office building. The Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for reporting on the Watergate scandal. He co-authored with Bernstein two best-selling books about Nixon and Watergate, All the President's Men and The Final Days. With Scott Armstrong, he co-authored The Brethren, about the Supreme Court, and he has written eight other books. After 9/11, stories Woodward and other Post staff wrote about America's war on terrorism were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National News. His 2002 book, Bush at War, focuses on the three months following the terrorist attacks. He previously was The Post's managing editor for Metropolitan news. SCOTT A. ZAMOST is the investigative producer at WTVJ-Miami. A former CBS News producer and newspaper reporter, he has won dozens of awards, including Emmys, Edward R. Murrow awards, the Clarion Award, and this year's Best of Show in the Florida Associated Press contest. Last year, he was a finalist in the IRE and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards. MARIANNE W. ZAWITZ is the chief of the Publications and Electronic Dissemination Unit, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice. She has authored and edited numerous publications and presentations on a variety of crime and justice subjects. Recently, she co-authored Homicide Trends in the United States, a section of the BJS Web site. She is also content manager of the BJS site. In 2002, she received the Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Information Technology. |
