Ted Czech covers fires, accidents, homicides and other traumatic subjects as a night police/general assignment reporter for the York (Penn.) Daily Record. He has also explored the study of how journalists are affected by the trauma they cover. Czech joined the Daily Record in May 2004, after the paper was purchased by its cross-town rival (and JOA partner) The York Dispatch, where Czech had been a reporter since 1999.

Kari René Hall, a free-lance photographer, has photographed car accidents, plane crashes, shooting scenes, murder trials, drowning, funerals, grieving families and many other traumatic stories during more than two decades as a journalist. A Los Angeles Times staff photographer for 18 years, her 1992 book Beyond the Killing Fields, was a gripping account of the lives of refugees inside Site 2 on the Thai-Cambodia border.

Ron Haviv, a photographer for the VII agency (of which he is a co-founder), has covered conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean, crisis in Africa, the Gulf War, fighting in Russia, conflict in the Balkans, the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. His work has been published in magazines throughout the world, including Stern, Paris Match, Newsweek, and the New York Times Magazine. He has published two books: Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul.

Caleb Hellerman is a producer for CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He has reported extensively on mental health and trauma issues, including suicide and experimental drug treatments for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. From 1998 to 2003, he was a writer for ABC/Good Morning America, where he covered the September 11 attacks, the D.C.-area sniper, and the Columbia Shuttle disaster, among other stories.

Amy Herdy, an investigative reporter for the The Denver Post, spent more than a year uncovering flaws in the handling of domestic abuse and sexual assault cases in the military, for the series “Betrayal in the Ranks,” which was a finalist for the 2004 Dart Award. She joined the Post in 2002, after six years at the St. Petersburg Times.

Dana Hull, a metro reporter for The San Jose Mercury News since 1999, has reported on the California energy crisis, earthquakes, the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle, forest fires, sexual abuse by Catholic priests and Retired Gen. Wesley Clark's campaign for the presidency. From late May to mid July 2003, she reported from Baghdad for Knight Ridder news service. Before joining the Mercury News, Hull was a reporter at the Washington Post.

Miles Moffeit, an investigative reporter for The Denver Post, spent more than a year uncovering flaws in the handling of domestic abuse and sexual assault cases in the military, for the series “Betrayal in the Ranks,” which was a finalist for the 2004 Dart Award. More recently, he has covered the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Moffeit joined the Post in 2002, after six years with The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Scott Wallace, a freelance writer, producer and contributing editor to the National Geographic Adventure Magazine. Wallace has interviewed many victims of political violence beginning more than two decades ago with relatives of death squad victims in El Salvador. As both a print and broadcast journalist, his stories have included in-depth reports on immigration, arson, the war on drugs, environmental issues, international organized crime and indigenous affairs. His story on Hidden Tribes of the Amazon appeared in the August 2003 issue of National Geographic. This year, he reported and photographed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As in past years, the Dart Center has selected an international Fellow from the BBC. This year's selection is Darius Bazargan, currently a producer based in the Northeastern United Kingdom. Bazargan has covered a wide range of stories, including the Genoa G-8 riots, arms smuggling, currency fraud, and gay weddings in South Africa.

For the first time, the Dart Center has selected an Australian Fellow, Gary Tippet, a senior writer for The Age newspaper of Melbourne. Tippet has been a journalist since 1972, when he joined the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial immediately after high school. He remained at the Sun (apart from a short period at the Northern Territory News in 1974) until 1988. In 1993, after a stint as press secretary with the State government of Victoria, Tippet joined the Sunday Age, moving to the Age when the two papers merged in 1998. Much of his writing has focused on trauma and its victims. In 1997, Tippet won Australia's most prestigious journalism award, the Walkley, for an account of an abused child who, 30 years later, returned to kill his molester with an axe.