Dana Priest is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. In her 21 years of work for The Post, Priest has written extensively on the CIA's covert counterterrorism operations around the world, the agency's secret rendition and detention practices and the intelligence lapses involving the Sept. 11 plot and the failure of pre-war intelligence in Iraq. In early 2007, she and a colleague broke the Walter Reed Army Medical Center outpatient care scandal and they continue to write about the lack of proper medical and psychological care for returning soldiers and Marines.

Priest was The Post's Pentagon correspondent for seven years. She covered the invasion of Panama (1989), reported from Iraq (1990), covered the Kosovo war (1999) and has traveled widely with Army Special Forces in Asia, Africa and South America and with Army infantry units on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.

In 2006 she received a number of awards for her reporting on CIA secret prisons and counterterrorism operations overseas. These included The Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, The George Polk Award for National Reporting and The Overseas Press Club's Bob Considine Award for interpretation of international affairs and the American Academy of Diplomacy's Arthur Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis on Foreign Affairs.

Priest's widely acclaimed 2003 book about the military's expanding responsibility and influence, "THE MISSION: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America's Military," won the New York Public Library Bernstein Book Award and was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize. In 2004 she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice, for her reporting on clandestine intelligence and her contribution to the Post's Abu Ghraib prison abuse reporting.

In 2001, Priest was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing grant and was a guest scholar in residence at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Also that year, she received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the National Defense for her series "The Proconsuls: A Four-Star Foreign Policy?"

Priest is also a national security analyst for NBC News and a fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security. She holds a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Anne Hull, 45, is an enterprise reporter on the national staff of the Washington Post, where she writes about immigration, class, race, and the war in Iraq, deeply embedding in the lives of her subjects. Prior to joining the Washington Post in 2000, Anne spent 15 years as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times.

She has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist numerous times, most recently in 2005, and her work is widely anthologized in journalism textbooks. She was born in rural Florida, where her father worked in the citrus industry and her mother was a public school teacher. She attended Florida State University and was a 1995 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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Michel du Cille, 52, was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Du Cille is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He shared his first Pulitzer in spot news photography with fellow Miami Herald staff photographer Carol Guzy, for their coverage of the November 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado Del Ruiz volcano. A second Pulitzer in feature photography was awarded for his photo essay on crack cocaine addicts in a Miami housing project. Du Cille was appointed Assistant Managing Editor for Photography in November of 2007; he joined The Washington Post in 1988 as picture editor. In 2005 he was an associate editor working primarily as a project photojournalist until his appointment as AME/Photo.

He joined The Miami Herald's photography staff in 1981; after internships at The Louisville Courier Journal/Times in 1979 and The Miami Herald in 1980. He has been with The Washington Post since 1988 where served as Picture Editor. Du Cille began his career in photojournalism while in high school working at The Gainesville (GA) Times. He is a graduate of Indiana University School of Journalism and holds a Master of Science degree in journalism from Ohio University.