Jane Stevens is a journalism professor at the University of California at
Berkeley and an expert on multi-media story telling. During her 30-year journalism career Stevens has worked for The New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner and other newspapers. She lived in Kenya and Indonesia for four years and traveled three times to Antarctica to report about science and technology issues. In 1988 she founded a science and technology feature service that syndicated articles to news media around the globe. In recent years she has specialized in telling science stories in innovative ways on the web. Among these are the Great Turtle Race (http://www.greatturtlerace.com).

Brant Houston, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter and former
executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), holds the Knight Chair in
Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois. He has worked as an investigative reporter for 17 years at the Hartford Courant and Kansas City Star. He is the author of Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide and co-author of the fourth edition of The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook. Before becoming IRE’s executive director, he was
managing director of the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting for two years.

Mark Schapiro has been an investigative journalist for more than two decades and has built an award-winning track record with a focus on environmental and international affairs. His work has appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, Mother Jones, and The Atlantic Monthly. His new book ‘Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s At Stake for American Power’ reveals that toxic chemicals exist in everyday products, from electronics to toys to cosmetics.