Rosemary Armao is an investigations editor at the South-Florida Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is the former managing editor of the Sarasota, Fl., Herald-Tribune and worked for three years as the executive director of Investigative Reporters & Editors. Over a 30-year journalism career she also has served as a bureau chief for the Baltimore Sun, an investigative reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the education team leader for Virginia Pilot in Virginia Beach, Va. She has taught at the University of Missouri, Ohio State University and the University of Maryland and conducted sessions on investigative reporting in Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia, Mongolia, Ukraine and Georgia.

Maud S. Beelman is director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. ICIJ is a global network of reporters that produces cross-border investigative reports. A 20-year news veteran, Beelman has spent most of her career in foreign news, including working as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, where she covered German reunification, the post-Gulf War Kurdish crisis in Iran and Iraq, and the wars in the former Yugoslavia from 1991-1996. Beelman was a 1996 fellow of The Alicia Patterson Foundation, researching the last decade of U.S. policy in the former Yugoslavia. Her multiyear investigation into arms embargo violations in Bosnia, including U.S. support for secret Iranian arms shipments to the Bosnian Muslims, appeared in The New Republic. Beelman's reporting has been honored by the National Headliner Club, the Associated Press Managing Editors, and Investigative Reporters and Editors.

Dr. C. Ann Hollifield is an associate professor and coordinator of the Michael J. Faherty Broadcast Management Laboratory in the Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Her research and teaching focuses on media management and economics. Prior to earning her doctorate, she was a business reporter and later managing editor of an American City Business Journals newspaper in Ohio. Earlier in her career, she also worked as a television news reporter, producer and anchor, and a television documentary producer. Dr. Hollifield also serves as a Senior Policy Fellow in the Voinovich Center for Leadership & Public Affairs at Ohio University, is a member of the national Rural Telecommunications Research Panel of the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), and spent a year in Germany studying German media policy and economics as a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation.

Suzanne Kelly is an anchor/producer/writer at CNN International, based in Atlanta. Kelly began her career with CNN in Germany, anchoring "CNN This Morning" out of Berlin. Before joining CNN, she worked as a freelance foreign correspondent covering German politics for the "Marketplace" program on National Public Radio, Voice of America, and both Deutsche Welle TV and Radio. In 1999, she covered the NATO conflict from Macedonia and Kosovo and was one of the very first journalists to report from the Pristina airfield once NATO troops entered Kosovo. Before her work in Europe, she was a morning anchor and investigative reporter for the CBS affiliate in Lansing, MI. She has also worked at the NBC affiliate in Ft. Wayne, IN, and as associate producer at the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.

Jeannie Layson, is communication director for U.S. Congresswoman Denise Majette, representing the fourth district of Georgia. Layson also served as press secretary for Congresswoman Majette during her election campaign and was vice president at Dickerson Communications in Atlanta. She also worked on the gubernatorial and senatorial campaigns of now senator Zell Miller of Georgia and served as his assistant press secretary when he was governor.

Terry R. Lord is resident legal advisor in the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, where he is responsible for conceptualizing, managing and directing a program for the improvement of the criminal justice system in Romania. Prior to assuming this assignment, he was chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division's Section on Child Exploitation and Obscenity and Principal Deputy Chief and Acting Chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division's General Litigation and Legal Advice Section. He served as the attorney in charge of the Las Vegas Organized Crime Strike Force in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada, as an assistant county attorney, a special attorney of the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, and an assistant city attorney. He worked as a criminal defense and commercial litigation attorney in private practice in Houston, TX. He was selected by the American Political Science Association as a Federal Fellow in the Congressional Fellowship Program.

Dr. Kent Middleton is professor and chair of the Journalism Department in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. A specialist in communication law, Middleton is the author of a widely used textbook, The Law of Public Communication, published by Allyn and Bacon. The text has been translated into Romanian. He is a founding member of the board of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation, a press organization dedicated to open access to government information. Middleton has lectured on press law at the University of Bucharest and participated in press workshops for the Soros Foundation, Council of Europe, United States Information Service and the Cox Center.

Stefan Simons is a freelance producer at CNN International in Atlanta. Earlier he worked as a field producer for CNN in Afghanistan, and prior to joining CNN, owned his own production company, "Thinktank Media," based in Bonn, Germany. He has produced and reported for all of Germany's public and private television networks. He has made numerous documentaries, such as Hitler's Helpers--The Search for Eichmann, Dresden--The Firestorm, and The Case of Hamadi. He covered the German government, the German military and German politics for Deutsche Welle TV. He worked as a correspondent/producer for Deutsche Welle TV from Macedonia during the NATO conflict in 1999.

Karen Dorn Steele is an investigative reporter specializing in environmental and nuclear reporting at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, WA. Dorn Steele has won a series of major national reporting awards, including a National Headliner Award, the Washington State Bar Association's Excellence in Legal Journalism Award, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency's media award, the George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting, the C.B. Blethen investigative reporting first place prize, the National Press Club's Robert Kozik Award, the Mencken Award for the best news and investigative series in the nation, and the Best of West first place for environmental and natural resources reporting. Dorn Steele was an Arms Control Fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Arms Control and a Knight Fellow in Stanford's mid-career program for journalists. In 1992, Dorn Steele, with a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, visited the former Soviet Union's nuclear weapons production site near Chelyabinsk, Russia.