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Jill Abramson joined the New York Times last fall as Enterprise Editor in the Washington Bureau. She helps supervise the bureau's investigative team and reports about money and politics. Before joining the Times, she worked at the Wall Street Journal covering legal issues and later money and politics. In 1992, she won the National Press Club's national correspondence award, the group's top prize for political reporting, for a series of articles about the role of money in the 1992 elections.

Paul Adrian is an investigative reporter at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio. He often uses computer-assisted reporting to build the foundations for his investigative stories. He won two Midwestern regional Emmys this year - one for an investigation into an Ohio meat packing plant, the other for a composite of his investigative stories. The Ohio AP named Adrian the best reporter in the state in 1997.

Jim Amoss has been editor of The Times-Picayune since 1990. A native of New Orleans, he began his journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the city's afternoon daily, The States-Item. In 1982, after that paper merged with The Times-Picayune, he became city editor of the combined papers and, in 1983, metro editor. During his tenure as editor, The Times-Picayune has won two Pulitzer Prizes, the first in its 160-year history, for Public Service and Editorial Cartooning. In 1997, the National Press Foundation named Amoss Editor of the Year.

Bo G. Andersson is an investigative reporter at Dagens Nyheter, the largest morning paper in Sweden. Andersson has written three books, the most recent, The Bofors Files, which details Sweden's secret dealings with Iran and the East German Secret Service, was published in 1993. Andersson produced a documentary based on that book for Swedish Television. He is the chairman and one of the founders of Gravande Journalister, the IRE of Sweden.

Richard Angelico is a reporter for WDSU-TV in New Orleans. He has reported on organized crime in Louisiana, drug trafficking in city neighborhoods, a priest who produced pornographic movies, and child molesters on the Internet. His awards include two Emmys and the 1st Amendment Award from the Society for Professional Journalists.

Rosemary Armao is the Anne Arundel County bureau chief for The Baltimore Sun. She serves as a director of the Journalism and Women Symposium and is a member of the IRE Board of Directors. She was executive director of IRE for from 1994-1996, the only break from a lifetime in newspapers.

Pedro Enrique Armendares, assistant director of IRE-Mexico/Periodistas de Investigacion, is the author of a guide for Spanish-speaking journalists on Internet resources and regularly gives workshops on CAR and Internet for Spanish-speaking reporters as part of Periodistas' team. He also is editor of La Red, Periodistas' bi-monthly newsletter in Spanish. Armendares previously worked at La Jornada newspaper as an investigative reporter, and also has experience in television and radio.

Charles L. Babcock is a partner in the litigation section of Jackson Walker in Texas. He has over 20 years experience representing a variety of clients in media and communications law. He has taught communications law at Southern Methodist University and thePracticing Law Institute. Prior to earning his law degree. Babcock was a sports reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Miami Herald.

Dean P. Baquet is national editor of The New York Times. He has served as deputy metro editor, a special projects editor and metro reporter. Prior to the Times, he reported for The Chicago Tribune and The Times Picayune. Baquet won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1988 when he led a team of three in documenting corruption in the Chicago City Council.

Karlyn Barker is an assistant city editor on the metro staff at The Washington Post. She directs a reporting group that includes the D.C. schools reporter, local immigration reporter, local demographics reporter, local higher education reporter and two religion reporters. She joined the Post in 1971 as a reporter, left in 1993 to become weekend/projects editor at The Orange County Register. She also spent a year as deputy metro editor at the San Francisco Examiner before returning to The Post in late 1996. She was a 1990-91 Knight Fellow at Stanford University.

David Barstow is a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times. He has written investigative and narrative stories about courthouse corruption, juvenile crime, abuses by prison health care providers and the city riots. He was a Pulitzer finalist this year in two categories - explanatory journalism for a two-part series about the tobacco wars and in investigative reporting for stories about the financial scandals of the Rev. Henry J. Lyons, president of the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc.

Roberta Baskin was most recently named a correspondent for the newly formed Investigative Unit at CBS News. Prior to that she headed up the investigative unit at 48 Hours. She also has served as a correspondent for Eye to Eye and Street Stories. Prior to becoming a network correspondent, Baskin was an investigative reporter at WJLA-TV in Washington D.C. and WLS-TV and WMAQ-TV in Chicago. Baskin has been honored with more than 75 journalism awards, including two Peabodys, two DuPont-Columbia University awards, eight National Press Club Awards, fifteen Emmys and an IRE Award. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Michael Bazeley covers K-12 education for the San Jose Mercury News. Previously, he worked at the Oakland Tribune in California and several mid-sized dailies in the state. He covered the ebonics controversy in Oakland, and is currently following the campaign to ban bilingual education in California schools.

Maud S. Beelman is director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a new project of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative research organization. She joined the Center in September 1997 after 14 years at The Associated Press. Most of her time with the AP was spent in foreign news, both as editor and correspondent. While overseas, she covered German unification, the post-Gulf War Kurdish crisis in Iran and Iraq and the wars in former Yugoslavia. She is an Alicia Patterson fellow and a native of New Orleans.

Kitty Bennett is a news researcher for the St. Petersburg Times. She created and maintains the newsroom intranet, known as the "Virtual News Researcher." She has been published in Online, News Library News and Database Files, and was a researcher for the Internet Kids Yellow Pages. Before coming to the Times, she was a reporter for the Summit County Journal, a small weekly in Breckenridge, Colo.

Robert Blau is the special projects editor at the Chicago Tribune. He is the author of ÔThe Cop Shop,' which chronicles his years on the police beat.

David Boardman is Assistant Managing Editor of The Seattle Times. He oversees the newspaper's local and regional coverage, including enterprise and investigative work. Boardman edited an expose on abuses in federal tribal-housing program, which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Previously, he directed coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath, which won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He also was editor and lead writer of articles on allegations of sexual molestation by U.S. Sen. Brock Adams, coverage that won several national awards.

Walt Bogdanich is an investigative producer for Mike Wallace and CBS's 60 Minutes. He previously produced investigative stories for ABC News, winning the prestigious Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University and George Polk awards. His 1988 Pulitzer Prize recognized the exposure of shoddy medical tests nationwide. Bogdanich is the author of The Great White Lie, an expose of the hospital industry.

John P. Borger is a partner in the Minneapolis office of Faegre & Benson LLP. He frequently represents news organizations in libel, privacy, news gathering and other actions. A graduate of Yale Law School, he served as 1996-1997 chair of the Media Law and Defamation Torts Committee of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association. He earned a B.A. in journalism from Michigan State University. He is listed among "The Best Lawyers in America" in the First Amendment law category legislators have called for a Legislative investigation.

Anne Brennan joined the Cape Cod Times in 1985 and has held a number of reporting positions. Most recently, Brennan investigated and wrote about a Cape Cod tourist railroad operating on state-owned tracks that was dumping raw sewage from its trains near private drinking water wells, shellfish beds and in municipal water supply well-head protection areas. As a result, the governor closed down the railroad. The state auditor announced he would investigate the allegations and two state legislators have called for a Legislative investigation.

Len Bruzzese is the new deputy director of IRE. He will oversee IRE's publications, its World Wide Web site, its resource center and the Campaign Finance Information Center. He also will assist in the administration of IRE and the running of IRE's conferences. He comes to IRE after 20 years in newspapers, including stints at USA Today, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal and Gannett News Service. He most recently served as editor of The Olympian in Olympia, Wash. Bruzzese also has been named an assistant professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Glen Bunting is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. His awards include the Goldsmith Prize and the George Polk Award for investigative reporting.

Eve Burton is Vice-President and Assistant General Counsel for the New York Daily News, where she handles First Amendment and related news and publishing legal matters, including pre-publication review of news articles, libel litigation, subpoenas of reporters and editors, courtroom access, and Freedom of Information Act requests. Recent accomplishments include: two successful lawsuits against Mayor Giuliani to get investigative reports on corruption in city agencies and information on gun permits issued to city residents.

Christopher Callahan is assistant dean of journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park. A former Associated Press Washington correspondent, Callahan now writes for the American Journalism Review. He specializes in the uses of the Internet for journalist and is the author of "A Journalist's Guide to the Internet," which will be published by Allyn & Bacon later this year.

Russell Carollo is a special projects reporter for the Dayton Daily News. He won the Pulizter Prize for national reporting this year for his 7-part series on medical malpractice in the military and has been a Pulitzer finalist two other times. He also has won 3 IRE awards, SPJ national award for investigative reporting, a John Hancock award, a Polk award and a first place National Headliner Award.

Peter Cary joined U.S. News & World Report in 1987 specializing in investigative and national reporting. He covered the Pentagon for two years, went to the Persian Gulf to cover the 1991 Gulf War, was one of the principal co-authors and editors of the U.S. News book on the Gulf War, Triumph Without Victory. In 1991, he became one of the three orignial members of the U.S. News investigative team, which has now expanded to nine people. Last year, he was chosen to head that unit and made an assistant managing editor

Ying Chan is a contributing editor for Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly), an international Chinese-language weekly. She has covered money-politics links between Asia and the Clinton re-election campaign, Asian organized crime and U.S. immigration issues. From 1990 to 1997, Chan worked for the New York Daily News, where she won a Polk Award for stories on the people-smuggling trade from China. For fighting a criminal libel suit in Taiwan, she was awarded the 1997 International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Yvonne Chua is training director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and teaches journalism at the University of the Philippines. She spent 13 years in newspapers, including work as city editor and managing editor of Malaya. She is also editor of two journalism books published by PCIJ: Uncovering the Beat: The Real-World Guide to Reporting on Government and The Electronic Trail: Computer-Assisted Research and Reporting in the Philippines.

Glennda Chui is a science writer for the San Jose Mercury News. She contributed to the coverage of the 1989 earthquake that earned the Mercury News a staff Pulitzer. Although she covers the sciences from astronomy to zoology, she is most interested earthquakes, global change and other earth sciences. She has been a reporter for 23 years.

Rose Ciotta is the computer-assisted reporting editor at The Buffalo News where she does data analysis for stories and projects. Recent topics include school report cards and school finance, state campaign finance, abortion and property taxes. Several projects have won state Associated Press Awards. She also does training, mapping and works with reporters and editors throughout the newspaper and teaches CAR at SUNY College at Buffalo. She's a member of the IRE Board of Directors.

Russell Clemings covered science and the environment from 1982 to 1995 for newspapers in California and Florida and now does computer-assisted reporting for the Fresno Bee. He is a Society of Environmental Journalists board member, and co-chairman of its 1997 national conference. In 1989, he had an Alicia Patterson Fellowship, during which he studied the environmental side-effects of desert agriculture. This work resulted in a book, Mirage: The False Promise of Desert Agriculture.

Sarah Cohen travels the country as training director for IRE and NICAR. Before the world tour began, she covered economics and related beats in Florida, most recently for the St. Petersburg Times. She previously worked as an economist in Washington for more than a decade.

Gary Cohn is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. Before joining The Sun in 1993, he worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal, the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and for columnist Jack Anderson in Washington. He has won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, the IRE Award, George Polk Award, Selden Ring Award for Investigative Journalism, Overseas Press Club of America Award, Sigma Delta Chi Award and the SPJ First Amendment Award.

Jan Colbert is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism where she teaches classes on design, writing, media issues and graduate research seminars. She is the managing editor and art director of The IRE Journal and was co-editor with John Ullmann of the second edition of The Reporter's Handbook, published by St. Martin's Press. She freelances as a book designer and photo editor, and is currently writing a book on in-depth reporting, writing and photography methods.

Rhonda Cook is a reporter with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, covering primarily prisons, parole and other criminal justice issues. She has won national and state awards for reports on inmate abuse, ethics at the state Legislature and for problems with the criminal court system in Atlanta.

Christopher Cooper, 36, worked for a number of smaller papers in Florida before joining The Times-Picayune in 1987. While at the Picayune, he covered a number of municipal beats, including urban affairs, the New Orleans Police Department and New Orleans City Hall. He covered city and state politics for a number of years. Mr. Cooper was a co-recipient of a national award from the Historic Trust for a variety of work that dealt with the city's decaying housing stock. He won a number of state and regional awards for feature writing, deadline reporting and explanatory journalism. Database reporting is not his specialty and he confesses to having had some problems sending this document to convention organizers. Mr. Cooper currently works in the Houston bureau of The Wall Street Journal.

Pamela Coyle covers courts and legal issues for The Times-Picayune. She received two awards from the Louisiana Bar Association for stories published in 1997. In 1996, she and colleague Jeffrey Meitrodt won first place for investigative reporting from the Press Club of New Orleans for two packages that relied heavily on court records. Coyle was recipient of the 1991-92 Yale Law Fellowship and received a master's degree in the study of law. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota. She joined The Times-Picayune in 1992.

Jo Craven works in computer-assisted reporting at the Washington Post. Previously, she worked for NICAR for two years as assistant database library administrator, Uplink editor and interim director of the Campaign Finance Information Center, while earning her master's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism. Before that, she was a feature writer, city government reporter, assistant city editor, and food and entertainment editor at various North Carolina newspapers.

Paul Cuadros is an award-winning investigative reporter who has written for The Chicago Reporter, People magazine, Parenting magazine, The Neighborhood Works and Illinois Issues. While at The Chicago Reporter, he was the recipient of the Pew Charitable Trust's 1995 Primary Care Journalism Award; a member of the team that won the 1994 Sigma Delta Chi Award, newsletter division; and the 1994 Inland Press Association Award for investigative reporting. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Cuadros is currently an investigative reporter for the Center for Public Integrity.

Dave Davis is an investigative reporter for the Plain Dealer in Cleveland and has been using CAR since 1988. He has written about transplant centers that turn away healthy donor organs, radiation mishaps and hospitals that mishandle premature babies.

Alice Dembner, an investigative reporter at the Boston Globe, has been reporting and editing for daily newspapers full-time for 20 years. About half of her career has focused on higher education, including issues in science and research. Her most recent project uncovered the huge profits scientists and drug companies are making from government-funded research. In 1997, she won the American Association of University Professors' national award for excellence in higher education reporting for a series on remedial education.

James Derk is computer research editor for The Evansville Courier and computer columnist for Scripps Howard News Service and Tribune Media Services. He's in charge of the newspaper's CAR program and also develops content for the newspaper's online service. He formerly was the newspaper's city editor and a beat reporter. He holds a degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University and a degree in management from the University of Southern Indiana, where he also teaches computer-assisted journalism.

David Dietz is an investigative projects editor and reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. He has run business and sports sections and once wrote a personal finance column. His reporting on such topics as securities fraud, air safety and abuses in high school athletics has won numerous national and regional journalism honors. Dietz is an IRE board member.

Jack Dolan is the database coordinator for the Campaign Finance Information Center and has been a data analyst at NICAR, an investigative reporter at KOMU-TV (an NBC affiliate), and a capitol correspondent for KMOX and KBIA in Jefferson City, Mo. Before becoming a journalist he taught English in Japan and Slovakia. He holds an MA in Journalism from the University of Missouri and a BA in English Literature from McGill University.

Gary Dotson is city editor of the Belleville (Ill.) News Democrat. He edited two projects that won IRE awards, including a series that exposed a special police unit in Belleville set up to target black motorists. The series won an IRE Medal and was featured on "60 Minutes." The News-Democrat has won numerous regional and national awards for investigative reporting.

Christopher Drew is the special projects editor for the metropolitan section at The New York Times. Since joining the Times in 1995, he has also done investigative projects for the business section and from Washington. Before that, he worked for the Chicago Tribune for 12 years, the last 10 in Washington.

Mike Dunne covers the environment for the Baton Rouge Advocate. A reporter since 1974, he was the newspaper's special projects/investigative reporter for five years, was a television investigative reporter for two years and worked as a freelance writer for one year before returning to The Advocate in 1993. Since his return, he has covered education, including a new desegregation plan, and general assignment before moving to the environment. He was a co-winner of the Scripps-Howard Meeman Award for environmental reporting in 1986 and has won Louisiana's top investigative reporting award four times. He is also an adjunct professor of journalism at Louisiana State University, taught an investigative reporting workshop in Zambia, and participated in an environmental reporting program in Estonia and Latvia.

Cindy Eberting is the new director of the Campaign Finance Information Center. She comes to IRE after 7 years as a reporter, most recently at The Kansas City Star. During her four years there, she covered the police beat, city hall, aviation and general assignment. Prior to The Star, she worked as a police reporter for The Times in Munster, Ind. Along with her CFIC work, she'll be helping with publications and the Resource Center. 

Kurt Eichenwald has done numerous investigations in the health care field and has won two Polk Awards for his work, one for stories on the dialysis industry and one for a series on Columbia/HCA. Eichenwald, who has been with the New York Times for 12 years, has also done numerous investigations into Wall Street business and scams and has written a book, "Serpent On The Rock," which examined the Prudential securities scandal.

Will Englund, 45, co-authored The Shipbreakers for The Baltimore Sun. The series won both the IRE Medal and the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for exposing the dangers posed to workers and the environment when discarded ships are dismantled. In his 20 years at The Sun, Englund covered city hall and education. He was assigned to the newspaper's Moscow Bureau for four years.

Keith Epstein is an investigative reporter in The Plain Dealer's Washington bureau. Assignments have included investigations of the nation's military academies; Dan Quayle during the 1988 campaign; flawed weather warnings that put Americans at risk; a cover-up by the Pentagon of a radioactive spill; and instances of government inaction that allowed preventable transportation tragedies to recur in the skies, on the rails, and on the roads. Most recently, he and colleague Bill Sloat have been investigating medical experiments on people - including recent instances in which people were unaware they were part of an experiment.

Jock Ferguson has been an investigative reporter for 28 years in print and television. A longtime staff writer for the Toronto Globe & Mail, he is currently a partner in First Avenue Films producing international investigations of global business for the BBC, Channel Four and the CBC in Canada. Ferguson shared an IRE Award in 1994 for a documentary exposing the widespread problem of women athletes being sexually preyed upon by male coaches.

Ford Fessenden runs Newsday's database team, part of the enterprise desk. He came to Newsday in 1986 from the Dallas Times Herald. He has been involved in computer-assisted reporting projects since writing a program for election night precinct analysis in 1984, and has focused his computer-assisted inquiries on aviation safety, tax modeling and medical-care quality issues.

Douglas Frantz is an investigative reporter and national projects editor at The New York Times. He joined The Times in 1994 after working as an investigative reporter in Washington for The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. His stories on Scientology made him a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting this year and won the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting. He has written six nonfiction books.

Jenni Gainsborough is public policy administrator for the ACLU's National Prison Project. She is a graduate of the University of London, England, and has an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.

Manny Garcia has been a Miami Herald reporter since 1990. He has been a ge neral assignment reporter, covered cops, criminal courts, the City of Miami and is now part of The Herald's corruption team, which is investigating fraud in government. He has written stories on the abuse of the court system, wasteful government spending and The Herald's voter-fraud investigation, which has led to the arrest of a city commissioner, his chief-of-staff and numerous allies.

Lisa Getter is a member of the investigative team at The Miami Herald, where she has worked since 1982. Last year, she helped investigate how the city of Miami came to the brink of financial ruin. A 1995 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, she has won numerous journalism awards, including the 1995 Goldsmith Prize in Investigative Reporting . She is an IRE board member.

Susan Glasser is The Washington Post's deputy national editor for investigations. She's held that post since January, or more precisely since six days before Monica Lewinsky became a hou sehold name. Previously, Glasser was the editor of Roll Call, the twice-weekly Capitol Hill newspaper. She started there as a reporter, and over eight years, worked her way to editor.

Frank Green is a reporter for the R ichmond Times-Dispatch where he covers adult and juvenile corrections. He is the 1996 winner of the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award for his coverage of the death penalty.

Robert Greene teaches journalism at Hofstra University in New York. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), a former president and chairman of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and he headed the IRE Arizona Project. He is a re tired Assistant Managing Editor of Newsday, former TV and radio news producer, and holder of the Missouri Medal for Distinguished Service to Journalism, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for the nation's best non-fiction mystery book (1981), and 43 other nationa l and regional journalism awards.

Karl Grossman is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury and a veteran investigative reporter. He is the recipient of many honors for jo urnalism including the George Polk Award, John Peter Zenger Award and, most recently, the James Aronson Award. Among the books he has authored are The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat To Our Planet, Power Crazy and Cover Up: What You ARE NO T Supposed To Know About Nuclear Power.

Chuck Goudie is a reporter with WSL-TV, Channel 7 in Chicago. He won awards for a 1995 year-long series exposing corruption at Chicago City Hall and for several reports on the Cu ban refugee crisis of 1994. He was named best television reporter by the Illinois AP in 1994. Goudie's key areas of focus: organized crime, political corruption and investigative spins off breaking news.

Joel Grover ha s been at KCBS-TV Los Angeles since 1996. His reports exposing corruption within the California Department of Motor Vehicles lead to the arrests and prosecution of more than 70 state employees. His investigation of the L.A. County Health Department's rest aurant inspection program prompted sweeping reforms of the health code. He's won the Peabody, the DuPont-Columbia, the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award, the Sigma Delta Chi National Award, and six Emmys.

Andy Hall is the investigative and projects reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal, where he also has helped create a statewide news media network for sharing the costs of data acquisition and training. Before moving to Madiso n in 1991, he worked for eight years as an investigative, general-assignment and federal agencies reporter for The Arizona Republic. A 1981 graduate of Indiana University, Hall has won more than 30 national, regional and state journalism awards.

Pete Hamill is an award-winning novelist, journalist, editor and screenwriter. Starting at the New York Post in 1960 Hamill has worked at several newspapers as a reporter, rewriteman, war correspondent, sports writer, and colu mnist. He has also served as editor-in-chief of both the New York Post and the New York Daily News. Hamill has published eight novels including the best-selling Snow in August. He has also published two collections of short stories, two anthologies of his journalism, numerous screenplays, and the best-selling memoir, A Drinking Life. Hamill is the father of two daughters and lives in New York City with his wife, Japanese journalist Fukiko Aoki. He is currently working on a new novel.

David Heath is the director of computer-assisted reporting at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has also been an investigative reporter specializing in CAR at the Louisville Courier-Journal and a business reporter. He won a John Hancoc k award for financial reporting in 1993 and was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb award in 1994.

Seymour M. Hersh is a journalist and author. He has written seven books, including The Dark Side of Camelot, a controversial book on President Kennedy, and the just-published Against All Enemies, a study of Gulf War Syndrome. Hersh started his career as a Chicago police reporter, served as press secretary to Sen. Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 New Hampshire primary and, in 1969, w rote the first account of the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam. The former New York Times reporter has won a Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Awards, Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Awards, the Worth Bingham Prize and the John Peter Zenger Freedom of the Press Award, among others.

David Hinchman has been an investigative producer for Dateline NBC since 1993. He specializes in hidden-camera and computer-assisted investigations. Before coming to Dateline he reported a ward-winning investigative stories for KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo. He was also the assistant director of the Missouri Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (now the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting).

Bill Hogan is the Director of Investigative Projects at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that concentrates on ethics and public service issues. Hogan has worked as a journalist in the nation's capital for mor e than 15 years. Before joining the center's staff in 1996, he spent nearly five years as a managing editor of National Journal, a weekly magazine on politics and government. Prior to that, he was a senior editor of Regardie's magazine in Washington, D.C. , where he helped to expose the Bank of Credit and Commerce International's secret ownership of First American Bankshares.

Brant Houston is executive director of IRE and an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is also author of Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide. Before becoming executive director, he was managing director of NICAR and before that, 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 included stints on the investigative and projects desk at the Courant and Star and covering different beats, which included city hall, courts, health, politics and general a ssignment.

Valerie Hyman started The Poynter Institute's Program for Broadcast Journalists in 1989 and remains its director today. Before that, she worked 12 years in TV as a general assignment and investigative report er, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and then Director of News Development for the Gillett Group of 12 TV stations across the country. In addition to her Poynter work, Valerie provides workshops in management, reporting and ethics for individual news organ izations in the U.S. and abroad.

Micheal Isikoff joined Newsweek as an investigative correspondent in 1994, covering Whitewater and other national issues. He is a news analyst for MSNBC and a frequent guest on radio a nd television, on such shows as National Public Radio's All Things Considered, ABC News Nightline, and PBS's Charlie Rose show. Isikoff was formerly at The Washington Post, where he covered the Justice Department, the Persian Gulf war, international drug operations in Latin America and worked on the financial news desk.

Bruce E.H. Johnson, a partner in Seattle office of Davis Wright Tremaine, is a member of the Washington and California bars. He has represented the me dia in several important First Amendment cases, including Rhinehart v. Seattle Times, Noriega v. CNN, Lee v. The Columbian, Auvil v. CBS "60 Minutes", and CBS Inc. v. Davis. He graduated from Harvard University (A.B., 1972), Yale University (J.D., 1977), and Cambridge University (M.A. 1978). He is among the "best First Amendment lawyers" according to Woodward/White's 1997-98 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

David E. Kaplan is a senior editor on the investigative team at U.S. News & World Report, where he covers organized crime, terrorism and intelligence. He is co-author of the IRE-award winning book Yakuza, widely considered the standard reference on the Japanese underworld, and is author of two other books, Fires of the Dragon and The Cult at the End of the World. Kaplan has reported from more than a dozen countries and has conducted investigative workshops for reporters worldwide.

Joel Kaplan teaches investigative reporting at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. He previously covered city hall for the Chicago Tribune and worked on its investigative team. He was a Nieman Fellow in 1995. Kaplan is an IRE board member.

Dan Keating is research/technology editor for The Miami Herald, where he has been for 10 years. Recent investigative projects for which he handled computer-assisted analysis include the examination of voter fraud in Miami and the expose on widespread overtime abuse by local police dubbed Collars for Dollars, which was a Pulitzer investigative finalist this year. Before specializing in computer-assisted reporting in 1993, Keating spent four years in the Herald's bureau in Key West.

Peter Keating specializes in covering consumer issues for Money Magazine. His investigation exposing the tragic consequences of the new alliances between managed care companies, pharmacy middlemen and drug companies won an IRE award for 1997. Other projects include the creation of an index of blue-chip stocks that reflect the U.S. economy, an examination of lotteries and contributions to an award-winning 1993 book on the Kennedy presidency.

George Kennedy is a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and managing editor of the Columbia Missourian, the school's teaching newspaper. He is a longtime IRE member and a former editor of the IRE Journal.

Andrei Konstantinov is director of the St. Petersburg Infor mation and Analysis Group, an 18-member investigative news service that works with Russian newspapers, magazines and broadcasters. The service has produced two books on local corruption and is currently working on one about fraud. A former Arabic interpreter for the Russian military, Konstantinov quit the army in 1991 and became a crime reporter for his small hometown daily, and then Northwest bureau chief for Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russi a's best-selling morning paper. Konstantinov is an author of crime novels and has written or co-authored 11 fiction and non-fiction books.

Alex Kotlowitz wrote a recently published book on race in America, The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death and America's Dilemma. He also is the author of the bestselling There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America. The book, published in 1991, was the recipient of numerous awards including the Helen B. Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Carl Sandburg Award and a Christopher Award. The New York Public Library selected it as one of the 150 most important books of the century. In the fall of 1993, it was adapte d for television as a TV movie starring Oprah Winfrey. From 1984 until 1993, Kotlowitz worked as a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal, writing on urban affairs and social policy. His journalism honors include the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award an d the George Polk Award.

Bill Kovach is curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Kovach, who was a member of the Nieman Class of 1988-89, was editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitutio n from 1986 to 1988. During that time, the newspapers were awarded two Pulitzer Prizes. Prior to Atlanta, Kovach spent two decades at The New York Times as an editor and reporter, including several years as the Washington bureau chief. He sits on many boa rds and advisory panels related to international journalism.

Polly Kreisman is an investigative reporter with WWOR-TV in New York. She has won 13 New York Emmys there. Previously, she worked as a Washington, D.C.-based freelance reporter and producer, served as Washington bureau chief for Ackerley Communications and a reporter for WBAL-TV in Baltimore.

Bill Krueger is an investigative reporter at the News & Observer in Raleigh. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter and covered beats ranging from cops to Congress.

Sperry Krueger is resource manager for the News & Observer in Raleigh, acquiring and organizing resources while developing the company's intranet. She began as a news librarian in the N&O's Dur ham bureau.

Greeley Kyle is an instructor at The Missouri School of Journalism. He is also a consultant, teaching seminars on beginning and advanced reporting techniques for the Voices of America, an arm of the U.S. Inf ormation Agency.

Jennifer LaFleur is the database editor for the San Jose Mercury News. As database editor she works on computer-assisted stories, trains staff in computer-assisted reporting techniques, and develo ps tools and databases for the newsroom. Before joining the Mercury News, she was training director for the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. At NICAR she trained thousands of journalists around the world. She has been doing comput er-assisted reporting since 1988 for various publications.

Connie Langland is a staff writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer, based in the suburbs, covering issues and trends in K-12 education. On several occasions in r ecent years she teamed up with Neill Borowski to report on trends in teacher salaries and state test scores. Last September, the paper published a Report Card on the Schools, which gave readers a wealth of data on 165 school districts in the Philadelphia region. She has a law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a bachelor's in journalism from Kansas State University.

Emily Langlie is the head investigative reporter for the ABC affiliate, KOMO 4 New s in Seattle. Her awards include an IRE certificate for a story investigating the conviction and imprisonment of a 16-year-old girl for a murder she may not have committed; the RTNDA Investigative Reporting award for 1994 and three Emmys.

Kerry Lauerman has been investigative editor at Mother Jones since 1996. Since joining the magazine, he has launched the now annual Mother Jones 400, a list and analysis of the country's biggest political contributors. He has also l ead investigations into Microsoft, Amway, the National Rifle Association, and a package of exposes on the tobacco industry, which later was nominated for a 1997 National Magazine Award. Prior to Mother Jones he was an editor at Forbes ASAP and the Owensbo ro (Ky.) Messenger-Inquirer.

Kathleen L'Ecluse is city editor at the Daily Republic in Fairfield, Calif. In her career she has covered cops, government, health care and politics, and written or edited several award-wi nning projects including stories on racism in county government, incompetency and abuse in the Coroner's Office, lack of investigation into continued abuse in nursing homes and migrant workers.

Andy Lehren joined Datel ine NBC's investigative unit in October as an associate producer specializing in computer-assisted reporting. Before joining the show, he was assistant director for NICAR, overseeing the database library. He taught computer-assisted reporting at the University of Missouri and at numerous NICAR seminars. He won numerous awards covering city hall for the Philadelphia Business Journal. He has also written for the Philadelphia Daily News, Reuters and the National Law Journal.

Stephen Levine is a staff reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco. He is the co-author of Paper Trails: A Guide to Public Records in California, which won a 1997 James Madison Freedom of Information Award. He has worked on several PBS Frontline documentaries, and was associate producer for Hot Guns, which won a number of awards including the SPJ Excellence in Journalism Award. He worked with Angus Mackenzie to help the late author finish his book Secrets: The CIA's War at Home, which was awarded a 1998 IRE Certificate in the book category. Levine is also an instructor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Jim Lewers is city editor at the Tribune-Star in Terre Haute, Ind. He has coordinated the newspaper's coverage of a police investigation into more than 100 deaths at an area hospital. That investigation led prosecutors in late December to charge a former licensed practical nurse with murder in six of the deaths. Lewers has also worked at the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail.

Charles Lewis is the founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit research organization in Washington that concentrates on ethics and public service issues. Lewis has written or co- written six of the center's 28 investigative reports and is author of the CPI book The Buying of the President. From 1977 to 1988, he did investigative reporting at ABC News and CBS News, most recently as a producer for 60 Minutes.

Rick Linsk is a projects reporter and CAR specialist for the Asbury Park (NJ) Press. He has used CAR to examine dangerous amusement rides, nursing home care, gun dealers, public employees, bad bridges, school performance, taxes and more. He was part of the newspaper's award-winning "What Ails Asbury/House of Cards" civic journalism project last year. He also helped produce "Vital Signs," a 1996 series on hospital care that won the National Press Club's consumer journalism award for newspapers.

Penny Loeb a member of the investigative team at U.S. News & World Report for five years and on the New York Newsday investigative team for the six prior years has investigated coal mining, water quality, railroad safety, redlining, low-income housing and property tax scams. She was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in 1998, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, a three-time winner of SPJ Public Service Award, winner of the Scripps Public Service Award, finalist for the Goldsmith Award and runner-up for the John Oakes environmental journalism award in 1998. She is currently writing a book on coal mining in West Virginia. She is a member of the IRE board of directors.

Doug Longhini is with CBS' 48 Hours. He has won numerous national awards including The Peabody, Dupont, and IRE Award. He is a 20-year veteran and ha s previously worked as an investigative producer for Primetime Live and the Unit 5 Investigative Team at NBC5 Chicago.

Glenn C. Loury, a professor of economics, is Director of the Institute on Race and Social Division at Boston University. He has taught economics at Harvard, Northwestern and the University of Michigan. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. An economic theorist, Loury has written on welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics and the economics of income distribution. His most recent book, One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America won the 1996 American Book Award and the 1996 Christianity Today Book Award.

Allan Maraynes spent 14 years at CBS News, ten of them as a producer at 60 Minutes, producing half his pieces for Mike Wallace and half for Ed Bradley. Noteworthy investigations involved the Ford Pinto, the Church of Scientology and the welfare hotels of New York City. As senior investigative producer at Dateline, he has been involved in numerous investigations, among them an inside look at airport security, which won an Edward R. Murrow award; elder abuse, an investigation into a controversial religious group; and abusive police seizures in Louisiana, which won this year's IRE gold medal. Additional honors include six Emmys as a producer and the George Foster Peabody Award.

David L. Marburger is a partner in the Cleveland office of Baker & Hostetler LLP. He is recognized as an authority on legal issues related to the content side of the communications industry, particularly First Amendment rights, libel and privacy law, state and federal freedom of information laws, and challenging the constitutionality of statutes, ordinances, and court orders. Marburger has been named one of the best First Amendment lawyers in the country in The Best Lawyers in America by S. Naifeh and G. Smith. He was appointed by the Ohio Attorney General to a two-year task force to conduct a comprehensive study of Ohio's freedom of information laws, and he was the primary draftsman of the task force's recommendation for statutory revision. Prior to becoming an attorney, Marburger was a journalist.

Elizabeth A. Marchak is the computer projects reporter at The Plain Dealer's Washington bureau. Working with colleagues, she has produced stories about gun control, campaign finance, mining, violence and Hyatt Legal Services that have given readers a better idea how government does - or doesn't - work. During the last three years, she has examined the Federal Aviation Administration's inability to stop the flow of bogus airplane parts, making extensive use of the FAA's own data and the Freedom of Information Act. She won the 1996 George Polk Award for National Reporting and several other awards for her investigation of safety problems at ValuJet Airlines.

Justin Mayo is the database library administrator for NICAR and is finishing his master's degree in journalism at the University of Missouri. He is responsible for updating databases and acquiring new data sets used by journalists throughout the country. Additionally, he and the NICAR staff process specialty data jobs for news organizations and help them analyze and make sense of the data. He has been with NICAR for two years.

Tom McGinty is a general assignment reporter and CAR coordinator for The Times of Trenton, a central New Jersey daily with a circulation of 85,000. He has been with the newspaper since 1993, when he graduated from Utica College of Syracuse University.

Mike McGraw, a special projects reporter and reporting coach for the Kansas City Star, joined the newspaper in 1989. He's also worked for the Hartford Courant covering workplace issues and the defense industry, and for the Des Moines Register covering agribusiness and the meat-packing industry. He's won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the Polk Award for National Reporting and the SPJ Award for non-deadline reporting. McGraw is a member of the IRE Board of Directors.

Shawn McIntosh is the managing editor of The Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Miss. Previously, she was the assistant projects editor at the Dallas Morning News, where she worked with reporters on enterprise, investigative and computer-assisted reporting. She's a member of the IRE Board of Directors.

Jacqueline McLean is an investigative reporter and anchor at WTTG-TV in Washington. She has reported or anchored at WEWS-TV, Cleveland; WRIC-TV, Richmond; WALA-TV, Mobile; and KFSM-TV, Fort Smith, Ark.

Jeffrey Meitrodt is special projects editor for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Since joining the newspaper in 1993, he has used computer-assisted reporting techniques to expose illegal billing practices by state contractors, a pattern of questionable dismissals of drunk driving arrests by a local district attorney and statistically impossible gains in test scores in the New Orleans public schools system. His 1997 coverage of the school system won state and national awards and prompted the school system to dramatically overhaul its testing procedures and undertake other reforms.

Josh Meyer, a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1989, has spent the past three years covering Los Angeles County government, including the nation's largest - and very troubled - health care system. He has written extensively about bad doctors and bad health care, including: Doctors and medical staff who accidentally killed patients in (and out of) trauma centers and emergency rooms, let a patient bleed to death because of excessive moonlighting by trauma surgeons, gave a woman AIDS during both routine and planned surgery due to mismanagement of a hospital blood bank and allowed an untrained scrub technician to perform surgery on a patient. A package of his county government stories won the Greater Los Angeles Press Club Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting and two Pulitzer Prize nominations for 1995.

Hector San Miguel is an investigative reporter for the American Press, a 40,000-circulation daily, in Lake Charles, La., where he has worked since he was 19. His 1997 story on political ties between the Louisiana Attorney General and one of the state's biggest video poker operators won three AP awards. He has been a member of IRE since 1983, when he drove 1,300 miles from Lake Charles to Palm Springs, Calif. to attend his first IRE conference.

Judy Miller is deputy city editor of The Miami Herald. She has been recently overseeing the coverage of Miami's voter fraud scandal. Previously, she was a deputy city editor and government editor at The San Francisco Chronicle, where she supervised computer-assisted reporting projects and investigative reporting. Her first investigation, under the direction of one of IRE's founders Paul Williams, revealed fire code violations in a high-rise dorm at Ohio State University. She is president of IRE.

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 on computers and consumer electronics for the paper. Miller started his career in broadcasting, spending 17 years at CBS News. He recently completed a fellowship at the Freedom Forum. He is completing his book, While Our Backs Were Turned: How Computers Changed Journalism.

David Milliron is Special Projects Database Editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he directs computer-assisted reporting and develops innovative news and information products for the newspaper and its online audiences. Milliron is a member of the newspaper's Innovations Group, a small editorial team that works cross-department and across delivery platforms in content research and development. Milliron previously served as special projects editor of Gannett News Service, where he directed computer-assisted reporting and database training.

Steve Mills covers the Chicago Police Department for the Chicago Tribune, where he has been a reporter for four years. Before that, he was a reporter at the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle and the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal.

Jeff Montgomery is a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. His investigative series about the Delaware Department of Transportation's mismanaged land deals forced state officials to change the department's way of doing business. The series won the 1997 IRE Certificate.

Richard Mullins is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he teaches computer-assisted reporting. He is academic adviser to the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting. NICAR is a project of IRE and the School of Journalism. Mullins previously worked as a researcher and database administrator at the National Library on Money and Politics in Washington, D.C. He has been a site engineer for a newsroom systems vendor and worked in daily journalism for eight years for The (Huntington) Herald-Dispatch, The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette and the Chattanooga Times.

Jim Mulvaney is a veteran reporter and editor. While at The Orange County Register, Mulvaney directed an investigation of a fertility clinic and documented cases of live births from stolen embryos. The series won the 1996 Pulitzer for investigative reporting and an IRE medal. During 15 years at Newsday, he was an organized crime specialist, a member of the Greene Team investigations unit and a national and international correspondent. He broke early stories on the Iran-Contra scandal from Latin America and was a witness to the Tiananmen Square massacre in China. In 1997, he became deputy managing editor for investigations at the New York Daily News. He left the News in April and is currently working as a freelance writer in New York.

Bill Nangle is executive editor of the Times of Northwest Indiana. He developed the idea of a multi-paper effort in which reporters and researchers tested how well local officials obeyed Indiana's open records law. That much praised effort this year led to a public outcry and a pledge by the governor to improve the system.

Carol Napolitano is a staff writer for The Omaha World-Herald, specializing in public policy issues and computer-assisted reporting. Her work has won 21 awards, the most recent was a first place from The Associated Press for a series analyzing students' standardized test scores. Before joining The World-Herald, Napolitano was a reporter and editor at The Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, an editor at The Post-Tribune in Gary, Indiana, a reporter for the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal-Gazette, and a reporter and CAR coordinator for The Times in Munster, Indiana. She is working toward a master's degree in communication research and applied statistical methods.

James Neff is an IRE board member, director of the Kiplinger Reporting Program at Ohio State University, and author of several non-fiction books, including "Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia and the FBI," which won IRE's Thomas Renner Award. He was a reporter for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland for nearly 10 years.

Joseph Neff has covered criminal justice and state government for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., since 1992. Before that he worked for the Associated Press in Newark and Manhattan. He was a Peace Corps volunteer and has a masters in international affairs from Columbia University.

Deborah Nelson, a member of The Seattle Times investigative team, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series on tribal housing that she co-authored with Eric Nalder and Alex Tizon. She joined The Times two years ago, after 10 years as an investigative reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, where her award-winning work included series on slum housing, police brutality, domestic violence, juvenile crime, banking, charity and the environment. She is a former IRE board member.

Chuck Neubauer has been an investigative reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1983, specializing in exposing political and financial corruption. Last year, Neubauer's probe of city hall corruption with reporter Charles Nicodemus, lead to resignations and grand jury investigations of powerful aldermen. The work earned them third place in the Selden Ring Award competition and finalist spots for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. As a reporter for the Chicago Tribune in 1976, Neubauer shared in a Pulitzer Prize for reporting of abuses in federal housing programs.

Dan Noyes, executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting, is a co-founder of CIR and has worked extensively on environmental, financial, civil-liberties and public-trust issues. He is the CIR executive producer for the June 1998 CIR/Frontline co-production Fooling With Nature on the new threat of man-made chemicals to human health and the environment. He was CIR executive producer for Hot Guns, a June 1997 CIR/Frontline co-production for PBS on the cheap handguns known as Saturday Night Specials. His work has won George Polk, DuPont-Columbia, IRE, World Affairs Council and SPJ awards.

Mark Obenhaus, of Lanser Productions, produces, directs and writes documentary TV. Obenhaus joined ABC News in 1991, helping to create the prime time magazine show Day One, on which he served as senior producer. In 1995, he became senior producer of Peter Jennings Reports. Most recently, he was executive producer, director and writer of a documentary for ABC News about President John F. Kennedy, based in part on new reporting by Seymour Hersh. He also produced, in association with the Susskind Company, JFK: A Time Remembered, a PBS special that commemorated the 25th anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy. Obenhaus's films have been recognized by five national Emmys, the Columbia DuPont Journalism Award and two Robert Kennedy Journalism Awards among others.

James O'Byrne is the Sunday Editor for The Times-Picayune. During 17 years at the newspaper, O'Byrne has worked as a reporter and assistant metro editor in charge of special projects. His work on issues ranging from the environment to gambling to race relations has won several awards, including the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business journalism, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting and the Scripps Howard Foundation Award for environmental journalism. He was a finalist in 1992 for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism, and was a project editor for "Oceans of Trouble," a series on the world's fisheries that won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Sam Omatseye is the former deputy editor of Nigeria's Sunday Concord and a longtime political correspondent in that country. For his coverage of a controversial military crash in 1992, he was arrested and beaten by soldiers; that story won Nigeria's top journalism award. After watching his publications censored and shut down by the military regime, he came to the U.S. on a 1997 Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship and is currently seeking asylum here.

Paul Overberg has been a database editor at USA Today since 1993. He worked in the same capacity at Gannett News Service after serving as its science, medical and environmental writer and editor. He joined GNS from The Courier-News in Bridgewater, N.J., where he had been a reporter, assistant city editor and business editor.

Nora Paul is the library director of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., where she conducts leadership programs in the areas of news research, computer-assisted journalism, and new media. She joined the institute in 1991 after working as library director, then editor of information services at The Miami Herald, 1979-1991. Paul writes the Internet column for NICAR's Uplink newsletter, and is the author of Computer Assisted Research: A Guide to Tapping Online Information.

Jacquee Petchel is executive producer of special projects at WFOR-TV, a CBS-owned station in Miami. She also worked at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis as senior producer of the investigative unit. Before that, Petchel worked at The Arizona Republic, The Indianapolis News and The Miami Herald, where she was part of the Herald's investigative team. Petchel has won numerous state and national awards for her work in both print and broadcast. She is a member of the IRE board of directors.

Cheryl Phillips is assisting city editor/enterprise for The Detroit News. She oversees computer-assisted reporting and other enterprise projects for the newspaper. Previously, she was a reporter for the Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune where she covered local government and the state legislature as well as computer-assisted reporting. She also worked for four months on loan to USA Today's enterprise department and worked at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas. In Fort Worth, she covered, among other things, the business side of the Texas Rangers and the construction of the team's new baseball stadium.

Duane Pohlman is chief investigative reporter at KING-TV in Seattle, where he recently aired an expose on stolen babies in Guatemala. His investigation, Blind Drivers, just received a first place-enterprise award from the Washington AP. From 1994 to 1996, while at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee, Pohlman won more than a dozen national, regional and state awards for an investigation into security gaps at nuclear power plants, a documentary on Bosnia and continuing coverage of a new Brewers baseball stadium. While at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, N.C., Pohlman was named, the state Television Journalist of the Year for 1994. While at WSLS-TV in Roanoke, Va., he was named state Television Reporter of the Year for 1990.

James Polk is senior investigative producer at CNN, which he joined in '92. He was a national correspondent for NBC News from 1975 to 1991, and earlier was a reporter for The Associated Press and The Washington Star, where Polk won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his Watergate stories. At CNN, he has helped manage coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing, World Trade Center attack, and TWA 800 disaster. He and CNN received a national Emmy for their Oklahoma reporting. Polk is a former president of IRE.

Bob Port is Special Assignment Editor for The Associated Press in AP's New York City headquarters. He works closely with the AP's computer-assisted reporting staff and manages a small team of national writers who work full time on investigative projects - a new venture for the AP. Before joining the AP in 1995, Port worked 11 years for the St. Petersburg Times where he covered a variety of beats, eventually specializing in special projects that made innovative uses of electronic records. At the AP, he managed a group of reporters who prepared a series of national and state stories on illegal child labor published last December.

Don Ray is a freelance investigative journalist based in Burbank, Calif. He has produced for "Inside Edition," The Crusaders, KAET-TV, KCBS-TV and others. He has written for scores of newspapers and magazines including the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Omni Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, San Francisco Bay Guardian and Riverside Press-Enterprise. He is the author of the "California Investigators Handbook" and the newly published "Checking Out Lawyers."

Neil Reisner is a computer-assisted reporting specialist with The Miami Herald. He previously worked as training director for the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting and as a reporter in New Jersey at the Bergen Record and The Home News. Reisner has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Rutgers University and in newsrooms around the country. In his spare time, Reisner used to follow the Grateful Dead around the country. Now he plays with his 18-month-old daughter, Jolie.

Diane Renzulli is a senior associate at the Center for Public Integrity and director of information management. In her tenure at the center, Diane has created databases for several studies, such as The Trading Game: Inside Lobbying for the North American Free Trade Agreement; Well-Healed: Inside Lobbying for Health Care Reform; and, most recently, the center's The Buying of the President. Renzulli has spent the last three years coordinating researchers and a consortium of media organizations and political scientists, in addition to shepherding thousands of records into databases for the Power and Money in Indiana and Illinois projects. She is a graduate of Georgetown University.

Rem Rieder is editor and senior vice president of American Journalism Review, a monthly magazine that covers all aspects of print, broadcast and online media. Rieder has held editing positions at The Washington Post, Miami Herald and Milwaukee Journal. He also served asexecutive editor of States News Service in Washington D.C.; managing editor of the Trenton Times; reporter, Washington correspondent and deputy metro editor at the Philadelphia Bulletin; and reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Since 1993, Rieder has been an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland College of Journalism.

Wally Roche Jr. is a projects reporter for the Baltimore Sun. Before coming to the Sun, he worked for UPI, the Patriot Ledger, the Boston Herald, WBZ-TV, WABC-TV, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was born in Massachusetts and graduated from Brandeis University in 1969. He got an MPA from Harvard University in 1989.

Ira Rosen is the senior producer of ABC News, Primetime Live. Since the show's premiere in August 1989, Rosen and his staff have won several awards for investigative reporting including IRE awards, National Press Club awards and Emmys. Previously, Rosen was a producer at CBS News' 60 Minutes.

Tom Rosenstiel is director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an initiative to improve journalism standards. He also acts as a media critic for MSNBC. Rosenstiel previously worked as the chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek and media critic for the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics and other works on the media.

Mary Ellen Roy is a partner with Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P. in New Orleans, specializing in media law. She has represented WDSU-TV, Fox Broadcasting and its affiliate, WVUE-TV, and the Tribune Company, owner of local station WGNO-TV. Author, Phelps Dunbar Media Law Newsletter. A frequent speaker on libel and freedom of information issues, the Harvard Law School graduate is co-author of Tapping Officials' Secrets: The Door to Open Government in Louisiana.

Dave Rummel oversees a 10-person investigative unit for ABC News. Past stories, aired on ABC News broadcasts including Nightline, 20/20, World News Tonight and PrimeTime Live, have ranged from reports on incompetence in the FBI crime lab to extortion in the rap music industry. Previously, was a senior producer on Day One and Dateline NBC. He has also worked as a producer for 60 Minutes and 20/20, in addition to working as an editor and cameraman.

Ricardo Sandoval is Mexico Correspondent for Knight-Ridder. He has worked as an investigative business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, where he was honored with the Gerald R. Loeb Award, and at San Francisco Examiner, Orange County Register and Center for Investigative Reporting. He is co-author, with his wife Susan Ferriss, of The Fight in the Fields, a biography of Cesar Chavez and the farm labor movement.

Dave Savini is an Emmy Award-winning reporter for the Unit 5 Investigative Team. He has 14 AP awards to his credit including best reporter in 1995. Savini was an IRE finalist in 1997 for his stories that helped free four innocent men from prison after they spent 18 years locked up for murders they did not commit.

Christop her "Chip" Scanlan is director of writing programs at The Poynter Institute and editor of Best Newspaper Writing. Chip joined the faculty in 1994 from the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau where he was a national correspondent. In two decades of reporting, he earned 16 awards including a Robert F. Kennedy award for international journalism. He is a graduate of Fairfield University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

John Schidlovsky is director of the Pew Fellowships in International Journalism at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is former director of the Freedom Forum Asia Center in Hong Kong, and was coordinator of the Jefferson Fellowships at the East-West Center in Honolulu. Schidlovsky spent much of his career as a foreign correspondent in Asia, as Delhi and then Beijing bureau chief for the Baltimore Sun.

Mark Schleifstein is a special projects reporter for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. He was on the team that produced "Oceans of Trouble: Are the World's Fisheries Doomed?" The eight-day series won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service and several other awards. He was also part of prize-winning efforts on Louisiana gambling and state environmental problems. Schleifstein was an award-winning environmental reporter at The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., before coming to New Orleans.

Alan M. Schlein runs Deadline Online, training journalists on using online tools to find information on deadline. He also runs the Schlein News Bureau, covering Washington, D.C. for more than 35 newspapers in 18 states, as well as working for several television networks as a field producer. He writes a syndicated column on elderly issues, was one of the founders of the Regional Reporters Association, and spent four years running the Freedom Forum's Paul Miller program, training new Washington reporters on covering the nation's capital.

Susan Schmidt is a reporter on the national staff of The Washington Post. Over the past five years she has written extensively about Whitewater, and more recently has covered campaign finance issues and the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Schmidt has been with the Post since 1983, where she has done investigative reporting for the metropolitan and financial staffs. She also has covered courts, state and local government, and the S&L bailout.

Fred Schulte, investigations editor at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is back at work after taking a year off for a 1997 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship. A veteran projects reporter, Schulte has received the George Polk Award, the IRE Award, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice, in 1987 for his reporting on excessive deaths and injuries in VA hospitals and in 1996 for coverage of Florida HMO health plans for the poor. The author of Fleeced! Telemarketing Ripoffs and How to Avoid Them, Schulte is working on a second book.

Robert T ravis Scott is the Money Editor of The Times-Picayune. He is in charge of all financial coverage and local business news reporting for the newspaper. He comes to New Orleans from Greenville, South Carolina, where he was Business Editor of the Greenville News, a 100,000 circulation daily paper along the growing Interstate-85 corridor. He has won several press associations awards in South Carolina for business coverage and for column writing. Mr. Scott during the 1980s was an associate director and chief editor in Washington D.C., for a professional publication dealing with nuclear arms control and U.S.-Soviet relations. He is a graduate of the International Studies department of the University of South Carolina and has a certificate in international studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has lived and traveled in Europe and Central America. He is a member of the New Orleans Rotary club.

Bruce Selcraig, former IRE board member, has been a journalist 24 years, including three as a U.S. Senate investigator. Once an investigative reporter for the Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times Herald and Sports Illustrated, Selcraig now writes about corporate crime, the environment and, uhm, golf, for the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Sierra, Golf Digest and others. He lives in Austin and can be reached at: selcraig@ccsi.com.

Neal Shapiro is executive producer for Dateline NBC. Under Shapiro's direction, the program has won 13 Emmys and a silver baton from the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, seven National Headliner Awards, a Sigma Delta Chi award, a George Polk award, and two Edward R. Murrow Awards. Shapiro started at NBC in 1993. Previously, he was a broadcast producer for ABC's Primetime Live and a special segment producer for World News Tonight.

Kimberly Rucker Skeen is a senior investigative reporter at Washington's ABC affiliate, WJLA-TV. Previously, she worked as a reporter and anchor in North Carolina and as Co-anchor for The Good Morning Show, one of the nation's top-rated local morning shows.

David Smallman is a lawyer with the New York law firm Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. He practices in the litigation department, specializing in complex litigation, including media law. He is chair-elect of the American Bar Association's committee on Media Law and Defamation Torts of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section. His firm does pro bono work for IRE and NICAR.

Harry Snyder is the senior advocate at Consumers Union's West Coast office. Consumers Union is the nonprofit publisher for Consumer Reports magazine. Snyder is an attorney and has worked as a consumer advocate for CU for more than 22 years. He began the campaign in 1985 to require nonprofit health care organizations, HMOs and hospitals turn over the full value of their assets to another nonprofit public purpose if they convert to for-profit status. The campaign has turned into a national project. Snyder's other advocacy efforts include electric deregulation, auto insurance, agricultural economics, milk pricing, corporate accountability, civil rights reform and economic discrimination.

Murray Sperber, is the author of "College Sports Inc.: The Athletic Department vs. the University," a 1990 book that established Sperber's reputation as a major researcher on the topic of intercollegiate athletics. In 1991, while doing research at the University of Notre Dame, Sperber, who is a professor of English & American Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, came upon the previously unknown daily correspondence of the famous football coach, Knute Rockne. He based much of his next book, "Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football" (1993) on those. It received excellent reviews and won a number of awards. Sperber recently completed "Onward to Victory: The Crises That Shaped College Sports," to be published by Henry Holt & Co., New York, fall 1998. He is presently working on another book for Henry Holt entitled "Beer & Circus: The Impact of Bigtime College Sports on Undergraduate Education." In addition to his books, Sperber has written many Op-Ed pieces for the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and other newspapers and periodicals.

Paige St. John is a business reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat. Most recently she has been named a finalist for the Gerald Loeb award for excellence in business reporting for her coverage of HMO abuses in mental health care delivery. St. John previously was a correspondent for the Associated Press and environmental reporter for The Detroit News prior to the 1996 strike.

Greg Stricharchuk is projects editor at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Previously he was a Freedom Forum professional in residence at Ohio State University and an editor at the Dayton, Ohio newspaper. He also was a reporter for 18 years, including nearly nine years at The Wall Street Journal.

Drew Sullivan is the news data manager for The Associated Press. He develops news and analysis tools for reporters in the AP's 243 worldwide bureaus from its New York headquarters. He also supports investigative projects with database reporting. Previously, Drew was database manager for NICAR. In a previous career, he worked for six years as a structural dynamicist on the Space Shuttle project for Rockwell International.

Sandra Surles is a producer and manager of the Consumer Development and Planning Unit for Dateline NBC. She and Chief Consumer Correspondent Lea Thompson produce investigative reports and consumer alerts for the program. Surles specializes in investigative and undercover reporting, confidence crimes and consumer scams. Most recently, Surles explored the psychology of swindles in which she successfully performed a bank examiner con in front of hidden cameras. Surles and her colleagues produced a year-long investigation of the Irish Travelers, for which they won IRE's Tom Renner Award for Organized Crime reporting and the Clarion Award.

Olive Talley is a producer at PrimeTime Live on ABC. She previously worked as a reporter at the Dallas Morning News and other Texas newspapers, radio stations and the UPI. Honors include a Nieman fellowship, a Pulitzer finalist and the George Polk Award for her investigative work. She's a former IRE director.

Sylvia Teague is Executive Producer of Special Projects at KCBS-TV, Los Angeles. She was brought in to launch and lead the 14-person Special Assignment unit, which includes the I-Team. In 15 months, the unit has produced more than 200 magazine-style pieces, including numerous ground-breaking investigations. The unit has exposed corruption within the California Department of Motor Vehicles and prompted sweeping reform of the L.A. County restaurant inspection system. To date, the unit has been honored with 21 awards, locally, regionally and nationally. Previously, Teague was M.E. at KCAL-TV in Los Angeles.

Cheryl Thompson joined The Washington Post as a reporter in January 1997. She has covered D.C. police administration and the D.C. Department of Corrections. Thompson formerly served as special projects reporter for the Kansas City Star and has worked for the Chicago Tribune, the Daily News of Los Angeles and the Gainesville Sun. She has won numerous national and state awards, including the 1994 Benjamin Fine Award, the 1995 Missouri Press Award and the 1996 Kansas News Enterprise Award.

Lea Thompson is Dateline NBC's chief consumer correspondent. She is known for hard-hitting investigative pieces on consumer, health and safety issues. She is a recipient of numerous awards including two Peabody Awards, two George Polk awards, six Ohio State awards, three National Headliner awards and three IRE awards.

Carolyn Tuft is an investigative reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She is a past winner of the IRE medal and more than a dozen other national and local awards. Among her investigations are stories that have documented a police department operating a special unit to target blacks, the continued licensing of paramedics with violent felony and serious driving records and a housing authority giving hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts to friends and political allies.

David Washburn, 29, is the electronic information editor at The Morning Call in Allentown, Penn. He has previously worked as an assistant producer for Dateline NBC and as the editor of Uplink, from NICAR.

Stuart Watson is an investigative reporter for WRAL-TV, the CBS affiliate in Raleigh, N.C. He won the Peabody Award twice - this year with photojournalist Richard Adkins for a series of reports on military medical malpractice, and in 1994 with a team at WKRN-TV in Nashville, for an investigation into the influence of special interest money on the Tennessee State Legislature. Stuart has twice won the IRE Award - this year for reporting on military medicine in conjunction with the Dayton Daily News and the Cox News Service which led to reforms by the Pentagon and Congress.

Patrick Weiland has been an investigative producer at Dateline NBC since 1995. He has been was a producer at CBS News in New York and a senior producer of documentaries and investigations at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis.

Steve Weinberg, a former executive director of IRE, is a book author, freelance magazine writer, book reviewer and editor. He teaches journalism at the University of Missouri and remains editor of The IRE Journal. His books include the well-regarded Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques. He is a frequent expert witness for defendant media organizations that have been sued for libel or other alleged news-related transgressions. As a 1997-98 Alicia Patterson Fellow, Weinberg is researching a biography of Ida Tarbell.

Isabel Wilkerson was the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the first black American to win for individual reporting. Her 1994 prize for feature writing was for her stories in The New York Times about the Midwest floods and for her portrait of a child on the South Side of Chicago. She was named 1994 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. She recently won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Currently on leave from the Times, Wilkerson is researching and writing a book on the migration of African-Americans from the South to the North from the Depression to the 1960s.

Marian Wilkinson is deputy editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, where she oversees investigative projects. She began her career in public radio and at the weekly newspaper The National Times, where she reported on politics, organized crime and corruption. She later worked as a producer and correspondent for 4 Corners, Australia Broadcasting's investigative news program, and went on to become that show's executive producer. She has won Australia's top journalism awards and is author of a biography on Australia's leading political fund-raiser.

Margot Williams is Metro Resource Director at The Washington Post, responsible for Metro's news research, local database analysis and staff computer and Internet training. She contributes a regular column about the Internet to The Post's weekly technology section. Williams previously worked as research manager at The Post, library director at the Poughkeepsie Journal and research librarian at Time, Inc.

Duff Wilson is an investigative reporter for The Seattle Times. His reporting last year on how hazardous wastes become fertilizer won a Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism, a National Headliner Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Mike Wilson is a general assignment reporter for the St. Petersburg Times. For the past ten months he and two colleagues, David Barstow and Monica Davey, have been writing investigative stories about the Rev. Henry Lyons of the National Baptist Convention USA. The work was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Wilson came to the Times in 1995 after 12 years as a writer and editor at the Miami Herald. He has written two books, Right on the Edge of Crazy (1993), about the U.S. downhill ski team, and The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison (1997), about the chief executive of Oracle Corporation.

David Wood is the national security correspondent for Newhouse News Service. He was a Pulitzer finalist this year, winner of the National Headliners Award and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense.

Keith Woods is an associate in ethics and leads Poynter's programs on diversity and coverage of race relations. He teaches media ethics, feature writing, reporting on race, and management of a diverse workforce. He regularly teaches ethics and short writing seminars at journalism conventions and schools. He also has taught ethics and covering race relations at the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a regular presenter at the National Writers Workshops each spring, specializing in feature writing. Keith consults frequently with print and broadcast organizations on issues of ethics and coverage of race and has written for textbooks, trade magazines, and newspapers on race relations and the media. He joined the institute in 1994 after 16 years with his hometown newspaper, the Times-Picayune.

J. Paul Wyatt spent 21 years with United Press International in Louisville, Ky.; Washington, D.C.; Mexico City; Panama City, Panama; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Jacksonville, Fla. He worked briefly with the Voice of America and with a Washington public relations firm before coming to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1988. At the bureau, he has worked in customer services, marketing and public information. Currently, he is senior editor in the Public Information Office.

Stewart Yerton covers the casino and tourism industries for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, and has also worked as a staff writer for The American Lawyer magazine and The Birmingham News. He is a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Mitchell Zuckoff is an investigative reporter with The Boston Globe. As part of the Globe Spotlight Team, he uncovered and documented fraud and abuse in the state's disability retirement system, a project that was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism. Last year, he and his colleagues unmasked a group of corrupt Boston police detectives who made a practice of ripping off drug dealers, stories that led to indictments and eventual guilty pleas by the officers.