Brad Schrade is an investigative reporter at The Star Tribune where he has worked since 2010. Before moving to Minneapolis, he was an investigative reporter and editor at The Tennessean in Nashville where he worked for 10 years. His work has been honored in state, regional and national contests. He was part of The Tennessean staff that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news in 2011 for coverage of massive flooding in Nashville. His 2011 investigation of Minnesota’s care of elderly and vulnerable adults exposed system breakdowns and led to tougher laws against abusive caregivers. He has investigated corruption in the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the spread of gangs to rural and suburban communities, and loopholes that allowed violent criminals to carry guns. He is a native of Atlanta and previously worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. Schrade was a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in 2007-2008. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia where he studied history as both an undergraduate and graduate student. His master’s thesis examined the civil rights movement. He lives with his wife and son.

Jeremy Olson is the children and families reporter for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, Minn., and has covered social and medical issues in Minnesota since 2005. His Star Tribune stories have prompted solutions to a variety of social problems, from erroneous prescriptions of psychotropic drugs to children, to Minnesota’s alarming rate of children re-entering foster care. As the health care reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, he earned a Premack Public Affairs Journalism Award for his investigation of the suicide of a schizophrenic patient in a drug trial, and organized a mess of state pharmacy records into a searchable on-line database of pharmaceutical company payments to Minnesota doctors. Olson’s investigations for the Omaha World-Herald, where he worked from 1999 to 2005, uncovered abuses of undocumented meatpacking workers, a dangerous lack of supervision when residents performed surgeries at VA medical centers, and rising teen suicide rates in Nebraska’s small towns. He co-wrote a series on foster care deaths in Nebraska that earned a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. Olson completed health care journalism fellowships offered by the Markle Foundation/New York Times and The Poynter Institute and produced a series on long-term care in 2009 as a Kaiser Media Fellow. He has degrees in print journalism and English from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn., and started his newspaper career at The Beacon News of Aurora, Ill. Olson is married and has two children, ages 11 and 9. He writes a daily Daddy-O blog for the Star Tribune on thorny issues of parenting and family life.

Glenn Howatt has been with the Star Tribune since 1990 and has been the newspaper’s computer-assisted reporting editor since 2006. He had been a health care reporter for the newspaper. He has won awards for being part of a reporting team that exposed a prominent Minnesota oncologist who gave unnecessary treatments to dying cancer patients and for another story on the lack of attention given to nursing home deaths caused by falls. He was a co-recipient of the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and the 2011 American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award for a series of articles on the debt collection industry. The investigation revealed how the justice system has become an arm of the private collection industry. He holds a master’s of science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied urban geography. He also has a journalism master of arts degree from the same institution where he specialized in the use of Census data by newspapers. He has had journalism fellowships at the University of Nevada-Reno for business reporting, the University of Mississippi for nonprofit reporting and the University of Maryland College Park for reporting on children.