Keti Bochorishvili, correspondent for the BBC Central Asia and Caucasus Service. Bochorishvili files regular news reports for the BBC's morning Russian-language radio program, and researches and organizes a weekly discussion program for the Central Asia Service. Earlier this year she produced a documentary series on the Georgian-Abkhaz war.

Kathryn Eastburn, editor of the Colorado Springs Independent. Eastburn has written about teen suicide and its repercussions, depression, and the murder of a child by a family member. In covering these topics, she has raised issues of the gang mentality, bullying, ready access to lethal weapons, and the need for more open dialogue about violence and traumatic events.

Carol Gorga Williams, reporter for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey. Gorga Williams has covered crime and the criminal justice system, diversity issues, trauma, post-traumatic stress and acute stress disorder. She is currently working on a 20-month project on the impact of fatal crashes on survivors and the community at large.

Frank Green, a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia. Green's coverage of the criminal justice system and prison issues includes exploration of the role of race in capital punishment. In a state where the execution rate is second only to that of Texas, Green was the 1997 winner of the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award for his coverage of the death penalty.

Liisa Hyvarinen, an executive producer for WTSP-TV in Florida. Hyvarinen supervises editorial content for all investigative and consumer-related stories for the station. She produced the first in-depth interview of Timothy McVeigh's mother and, while working at WSPA-TV in South Carolina, was responsible for coverage of Susan Smith, convicted of drowning her two sons in a local lake.

Natalie Pompilio, a staff writer for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Pompilio covers the police beat in a city known for an unusually high rate of violent crime. Her stories have focused on the impact of violence on the families of victims, drug abuse and suicide. She recently wrote an article on a local man, in the sixth year of a difficult recovery after losing his wife in the Oklahoma City bombing.

David Wood, national security correspondent for Newhouse News Service. In 30 years as a reporter, Wood has written widely about the trauma of war and the effects of violence on those who inflict and those who suffer is consequences. The Rangers: Can American Kids Kill With the Best?, published in 1998, provides a compelling look at the physical and psychological preparation of soldiers in the Army's elite assault unit. He has won the Gerald Ford Prize for Distinguished Defense Reporting.