Donald Bartlett and James B. Steele are investigative reporters for the Philadelphia Inquirer who, during the past 12 years, have worked together as a team, travelling throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Asia. Together they research and write in-depth series on such wide-ranging topics as American foreign aid, criminal justice, the energy crisis … Continued

Imagination and resourcefulness are two words which characterize Jac W. Zimmerman’s career as a community press publisher and editor. Zimmerman’s newspapers, including the Bolivar (MO.) Herald-Free Press, have won a total of 75 national and state awards fro excellence in the past 31 years. One resourceful product of Zimmerman’s inventive mind is Van Press, the … Continued

Jack Germond, Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, writes “Politics Today,” a nationally syndicated column for Tribune Media Services. His journalism career has also included stints at the Rochester Times-Union in New York and the Washington Star: Germond has covered everything from city news to sports. He is also a television commentator and co-author of … Continued

J.P. Tucker, publisher of the Gazette at Parkville, Mo., has been a rural newspaper worker for more than fifty-three years. He began as a printer’s devil a Kahoka, Mo., in 1880. He has served as treasurer and president of the Missouri Press Association which he joined in 1895.