Kate Bramson has been on the Providence (R.I.) Journal reporting staff since August, 2002. Bramson spent six months in 2003 covering the rape of a 15-year-old girl by a popular classmate in Burrillville, R.I. The story, “Rape in a Small Town,” won the 2004 Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence. Prior to joining the Journal, she was an education writer at the Duluth News Tribune in Minnesota. From October, 1995 to Feburary, 1997, she was news editor for Budapest Week and The Budapest Sun in Hungary.

Lori Grinker, a photographer for Contact Press Images, has photographed victims of violent conflict and war in more than 30 countries. In a career that spans 25 years, her work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, The London Sunday Times, Stern, La Revista, Rolling Stone, Libération, Wired, El Pais and many other publications. Her most recent book, AFTERWAR: Veterans from a World in Conflict, is the result of 15 years chronicling the lives of people wounded by war.

Robert L. Jamieson Jr., metro columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, began as a P-I reporter in 1991, covering education, city hall and general assignment beats. He covered, among many other stories, the crash of Alaska Flight 261, the fatal police shooting of a mentally ill man whose death sparked police to adopt less lethal weapons, and the local Mardi Gras riots. Jamieson's first news jobs were for the Wall Street Journal and the Oakland Tribune. In 1997 Jamieson received a fellowship to visit quake-ravaged Kobe, Japan. He also received a Casey Foundation fellowship and in 2004 was one of five from the Seattle area representing Rotary International on a goodwill trip to East Africa.

David Loyn, a BBC correspondent since 1987, has reported on wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans. As South Asia correspondent in 1993-1997, he covered the rise of the BJP, the crisis in Kashmir, and was the only journalist to enter Kabul with the Taliban. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, his assignments included attachments as political correspondent, the first elections in Poland, the fall of Berlin Wall, the fall of Ceaucescu, the Lockerbie bombing, Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, and long periods acting as Moscow correspondent.

Melissa Manware has been a public safety reporter for The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer since 1998. Among many tragic stories, she has written about a teenager who told her family that she'd been molested (the teenager's father then killed the man she'd accused); a 26-year-old death row inmate convicted of stabbing and beating his parents to death; and a homeless, alcoholic Army veteran who died in a fire he started to keep warm.

Paul McEnroe, an investigative reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has covered murders, clergy abuse, government wrongdoing and war in his 25-year career at the Star Tribune. He covered the 1991 Gulf War and the current war in Iraq as an unembedded unilateral. In mid-February 2003, McEnroe and a Star Tribune photographer smuggled themselves across the Turkish border into Iraqi Kurdistan in the back of a potato truck.

Arnim Stauth, a correspondent for the West German broadcast company WDR, has covered violent conflict in the former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq and natural disasters in Congo, Afghanistan and Russia. Stauth joined WDR in 1986. Before beginning his journalism career, he received a degree in psychology from Berlin University. In 2004, he co-directed a documentary, “Torture in the Name of Freedom,” about Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Stauth is an editorial board member of NewsXchange.

Mike Walter, morning anchor and reporter for WUSA TV in Washington, D.C., has won four Emmy awards. Walter was the senior correspondent for USA TODAY LIVE when, on September 11, 2001, he witnessed an American Airlines jet crash into the Pentagon. Walter contributed to two books about the terrorist attacks: Covering Catastrophe and Broadcasting through Crisis. The many stories he has covered during his career include relief missions in Somalia and Russia, the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and the Northridge Earthquake in Southern California.

Philip Williams is a senior reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Since joining the ABC in 1984, Williams has covered many violent and tragic stories around the world, including: the Beslan school siege; the December 2004 South Asian tsunami; the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; the Bali bombings; the Madrid bombings; the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan; the fall of President Suharto in Indonesia; and the events following the 1999 referendum in East Timor.