Marcus Stern has worked in the Washington Bureau of Copley News Service for 22 years as a regional, national and foreign reporter. During the 1990s, he wrote extensively about immigration, winning several national awards. In 2000, he became the bureau's news editor.

Though managing the bureau day to day, he also has continued reporting on special projects. Since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, he has made several trips to Central Asia and the Middle East. His foreign assignments have included Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, India and Turkey. He has made three wartime trips to Iraq totaling almost five months in country.

His journalism awards include National Headliners, Raymond Clapper, a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and the Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Journalism.

Before joining the Copley Washington bureau in 1983, Stern worked for States News Service in Washington and the San Pedro News- Pilot in California. Stern is a third-generation journalist and native of Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of UCLA.

Jerry Kammer, a graduate of Notre Dame, got his first journalism job in 1974 with the Navajo Times in Window Rock, Arizona. He had gone to the Navajo Reservation two years earlier to work as a volunteer teacher and coach at a parochial school. His reporting led to a book, The Second Long Walk, about a controversial program mandated by Congress to resolve a land dispute between the Navajos and the neighboring Hopi Tribe by relocating thousands of Navajos from high-desert rangeland east of the Grand Canyon.

After earning a master's degree in American studies at the University of New Mexico, Karnmer became the Northern Mexico correspondent for The Arizona Republic. In 1988, he transferred to Phoenix, where he joined the paper's investigative team. For the next four years, he covered the story of a Phoenix financier, Charles Keating, who became the symbol of the national savings and loan scandal.

In 2000, Kammer became the Republic's correspondent in Washington. D.C. Two years later, he joined the Copley News Service, specializing in immigration and U.S.-Mexico relations. In rnid-2005, the bureau tapped his investigative experience for work on the unfolding Duke Cunningham bribery scandal.

Kammer received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for his reporting in Mexico. His work on the Keating story was honored with the National Headliner Award for investigative reporting, the Gerald Loeb Award for Business and Financial Reporting, and the Arizona Press Club's Don Bolles Award for investigative reporting. He won the Bolles Award again in 1999 for work that was instrumental in winning political asylum for a former employee of a Phoenix business owned by the Chinese government. In 1993-1994, he was a Nieman Fellow.