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| Russell Carollo |
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Russell Carollo
Carollo, 42, a native of suburban New Orleans, has a journalism
degree from Louisiana State University and a history degree from
Southeastern Louisiana University. He is a former University of
Michigan journalism fellow, and he recently completed a two-week
fellowship in Japan awarded by the International Center for Journalists.
He has worked for more than six years as a special projects reporter
at the Dayton Daily News. He also has worked for newspapers in
Washington state, Mississippi and Louisiana. In addition to his
special projects assignments in the United States, Carollo has
covered stories in Bosnia and in Zaire.
In the past six years, Carollo has been a Pulitzer finalist twice,
and he has won three Investigative Reporters and Editors awards
(one a Gold Medal), Harvard University's Goldsmith Award, the
White House Correspondents' Association Edgar A. Poe award, the
Society of Professional Journalists national award for investigative
reporting, a John Hancock award and several state and local journalism
awards. |
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| Jeff Nesmith |
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Jeff Nesmith
Nesmith, 57, a native of Hillsborough County, Fla., graduated
from the University of Florida School of Journalism in 1963.
After teaching English to 12th graders at the Howey Academy in
Florida for a year, he went to work for The Atlanta Constitution,
where he started as an obituary writer and later covered police,
city government and state politics before moving to investigative
reporting. Nesmith also worked for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
as an investigative reporter before returning to the Constitution
as a correspondent in the Washington bureau, where he eventually
moved to the national staff of the paper's parent company, Cox.
In 1996, Nesmith was a Pulitzer finalist and also won an Investigative
Reporters and Editors Gold Medal and Harvard University's Goldsmith
Award. |
