[From 2014] T.J. Lewan, author of the critically acclaimed work of narrative non-fiction, "The Last Run," is a four-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and a former national features writer, investigative reporter and editor for The Associated Press.

His work has earned him the Aronson Prize for Social Justice Journalism, the Griot Award of the New York Association of Black Journalists, the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors Award for narrative feature writing, the Rube Goldberg Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and several Associated Press Managing Editors Enterprise prizes for feature writing and investigative reporting.

A graduate of Rutgers University, he holds master’s degrees from the Graduate School of Journalism and School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Venessa Houlder is a reporter for the Financial Times.

Megan Murphy is a reporter for the Financial Times.

Jeff Gerth is a staff reporter for for ProPublica. Previously he worked as an investigative reporter for the New York Times. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Cyrus Veeser is a professor of history at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Among other publications  are the books "A World Safe for Capitalism" and "Great Leaps Forward." Cyrus is a member of the board of directors of Remapping Debate's not-for-profit parent.

Lois Beckett is a contributor to ProPublica. She writes for the Nieman Journalism Lab, the SF Weekly, and the East Bay Express.

[From 2014.] Brian Paul is an urban planner and freelance public policy journalist. He is currently finishing his masters degree in urban planning at Hunter College and is a Research and Policy Fellow at the Hunter College Center for Community Development and Planning.

Olga Pierce is a staff writer for ProPublica. She is a recent graduate of the Stabile Investigative Journalism Seminar at Columbia University, where she won a Horton Prize for health reporting. Before Columbia, she covered health policy for United Press International in Washington where, in addition to writing stories about Medicare Part D, uninsured Americans and AIDS vaccine, she appeared as a commentator on C-SPAN and went to Camp David as a White House pool reporter. Her stories have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Hindustan Times, Lincoln Journal-Star and other newspapers. Olga is fluent in Czech and has a bachelor’s in international economics from Georgetown University.

Paul Kiel is a staff writer for ProPublica.  Previously, he wrote for TPMmuckraker, Talking Points Memo’s investigative reporting blog, from 2006 to 2008. TPM’s coverage of the firings of U.S. attorneys and politicization of the Department of Justice won a George Polk Award for legal reporting.

Steve Weinberg is a veteran journalist and book author who has taught at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, was Executive Director of Investigative Reporters and Editors.

Among Weinberg's books are "Trade Secrets of Washington Journalists," "The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques," and a dual biography of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller.