Newsday reporter Brian Donovan (right) joined the paper in 1967 after two years as a reporter for the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle. He was born in Syracuse, NY on March 11, 1941, and is a graduate of the School of Journalism at Syracuse University. Donovan has won numerous national journalism awards and his articles have appeared in the Reader's Digest, the New Republic, and the Quill.

Donovan lives in Huntingon, New York with his wife, Dr. Ellen Kanner, his son, Gregory and daughter, Rebecca. His hobbies are reading and auto racing. He has won races at the Bridgehampton, NY, Pocono Penn and Summit Point, WV courses.

Stephanie Saul, 40, (front-center) has been a reporter for Newsday since 1984. For five years, she was assigned to the newspaper's Washington bureau, where she covered the Justice Department and Congress. Prior to joining Newsday, she was a reporter for both The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and the Jackson, Mississippi, Larion-Ledger.

She received a degree in journalism from the University of Mississippi. Saul lives in Port Washington, New York, with her husband and two children.