Arthur Browne (photo: center) is the Daily News Editorial Page Editor and has spent most of his career at the paper. His positions have included copy boy, reporter, chief investigative reporter, City Hall bureau chief, city editor, metropolitan editor, assisting managing editor/politics, managing editor/news and senior managing editor.

Over the course of more than 30 years, Browne participated in or supervised the coverage of most of New York's biggest stories. From the Son of Sam to Roy Cohn, from Abe Beame to Michael Bloomberg, from the depths of urban despair to neighborhoods on the rise, he played a key role in guiding how The News wrote the city's modern history.

Browne, 56, left the paper from 2001 to 2003 to joining Bloomberg News, where he served both as a senior editor for enterprise journalism and as a senior editor on the team that supervised Bloomberg's "Top" screen, the equivalent of its front page. His responsibilities included directing Bloomberg's coverage of the Enron scandal.

A graduate of Boston College and St. John's University Law School, Browne is a nonpracticing attorney. In 1985, he co-authored, I, Koch, an unauthorized biography of New York's former Mayor Edward I. Koch. He is married with four grown children.

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Beverly Weintraub (photo: right) has been a member of the Daily News Editorial Board for three years, specializing in social issues such as education, homelessness and immigration. She joined The News in 1990 as a copy editor/headline writer and served as copy desk chief for seven years before moving to the Editorial Board.

Weintraub, 45, began her career at a group of community weeklies in Brooklyn and worked as an editor at a travel trade magazine, at the now-defunct Paterson News and News-Tribune, both in New Jersey, and at the New York Post before joining the Daily News.

A graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University, Weintraub lives in Manhattan with her husband and two teenage children. She is a member of the Newswomen's Club of New York. Weintraub is also an instrument-rated private pilot who has competed in several air races.

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Heidi Evans (photo: left) has been a New York Daily News reporter for 14 years covering mostly health and social issues. During two stints at The News-1987 to 1993 and 1999 to the present-she has won local and national honors, including two George Polk Awards.

Evans, 52, won her first Polk in 1990 for disclosing that the New York City Health Department had endangered thousands of women by failing to read the results of their Pap smear tests. In 2001, she and reporter David Saltonstall got the Polk for exposing financial corruption and child neglect at Hale House-the nationally celebrated Harlem charity for abandoned children. The stories also received the 2002 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting.

From 1993 to 1996, Evans was a national urban affairs writer for the Wall Street Journal. She covered the aging beat at Newsday from 1998 to 1999. She began her career at the Los Angeles Times after receiving a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1984. She won a Nieman Fellowship in 1993 and is married to Josh Getlin, the New York bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. They have a daughter, Alex, 12.