David Leeson has been a senior staff photographer with The Dallas Morning News since 1984. He covered the war in Iraq as an embedded journalist attached to the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, Task Force 2-69 Armored out of Fort Benning, Georgia. He was with the troops for six weeks and saw 23 days of sustained enemy contact in frontline action.

His work from Iraq, which included still and video, received global recognition that nationally included the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time and Newsweek magazines, and MSNBC, ABC and CSPAN; his video was featured on ABC's "World News Tonight."

In 1994, he covered the civil war in Angola, earning him a second Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. In the same year, a photograph Mr. Leeson made of a family evacuating floodwaters in southeast Texas was named a finalist for the Pulitzer.

In 1991, Mr. Leeson, traveling with the 1st Marine Division, was among the first journalists to photograph Kuwait City following the Iraqi withdrawal during the Gulf War. The following year he returned to the Gulf for an exclusive look inside war-torn Baghdad.

In 1986, his story on Dallas homeless was honored with a Robert f. Kennedy Journalism Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Problems of the Disadvantaged.

In 1985, Mr. Leeson was a finalist for the Pulitzer for his photo coverage of apartheid in South Africa. He made two more trips to South Africa in the following years culminating with South Africa's first non-racial presidential election in 1994.

Cheryl Diaz Meyer has been a senior staff photographer with The Dallas Morning News since 2000. She covered the war in Iraq as an embedded journalist attached to the Second Tank Battalion of the First Marine Division out of Camp Lejeune, NC and returned to cover the aftermath in Baghdad.

Her work from Iraq was published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and Spiegel magazines, and MSNBC, ABC News and CSPAN.

In late 2001, Ms. Diaz Meyer traveled to Afghanistan to photograph the war on terrorism and its effects on the people trying to free themselves from the oppressive Taliban regime. She has received numerous award for her body of work there including the John Faber Award from the Overseas Pres Club.

In April 2002, Ms. Diaz Meyer traveled to the Philippines and Indonesia where she photographed Muslim and Christian extremism and the violence caused by religious hatred.

She has worked on such team projects as "Hidden Wars," where she visited Guatemala to document a country healing from 36 year of terror and civil strife.

In 1994, while on staff at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Ms. Diaz Meyer's coverage included the disappearance of Gianni Versace murderer Andrew Cunanan, the second inaugural of Bill Clinton and the Red River floods. She traveled to Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to photograph life after the end of the Cold War.