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Author
Biographies
Ted Gest covered the White House, Justice Department, Supreme
Court, and legal/justice news during a 23-year career at U.S.
News & World Report. A native of St. Louis, Gest began his
career there at the Post-Dispatch. He has been cited by
the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and he won an American
Bar Association Silver Gavel Award. Gest's book on criminal justice
policy, "Crime and Politics," was published in the summer
of 2001 by Oxford University Press.
In 1997, he co-founded Criminal
Justice Journalists, which he has headed ever since. In March
2003, he was named Coordinator of the Council of Presidents of
National
Journalism Organizations. He is based in Washington, D.C.
Suzette Hackney covers criminal courts and
criminal justice issues for the Detroit Free Press. She
has been with the paper since 1998. Prior to her work with the Free
Press,
she was the Detroit city hall reporter for The Detroit News
and spent two years as a suburban reporter for the Philadelphia
Inquirer covering politics, education, cops and courts and
development in a number of communities. Hackney is a Michigan
State
University graduate. She grew up in Toledo, Ohio.
Sarah Huntley is the assignment editor for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver,
CO. She joined the Rocky in August 2000 as a police reporter. Prior to that,
she covered cops and federal courts for The Tampa Tribune. In her current
role, she is responsible for coordinating all city desk reporters and helping
to prioritize daily and long-term stories for the newspaper and the Web site.
This puts her on the front lines of most breaking news stories as well as
articles related to public safety and criminal justice issues. Huntley has
won a number of awards for reporting, including the Excellence in Criminal
Justice Reporting, Best Series, from John Jay College for Battered Justice, a
four-day series she produced with fellow reporter Lou Kilzer on the emerging
debate over the criminal justice system's approach to domestic violence.
She was also proud to supervise a team of reporters who delved in 2006 into
Colorado's policy of mandating life without parole for juvenile killers.
Huntley is a graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism
and Connecticut College. She is married and has two daughters.
David Krajicek is a special correspondent to the New York Daily News and Court TV's Crime Library. He is the author of& "Scooped! Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze and Celebrities" (Columbia University Press). Earlier in his career, he was a crime reporter at newspapers in Omaha and Iowa and was police bureau chief of the New York Daily News. A former Columbia University journalism professor, he writes "The Justice Story" for the Daily News and frequently appears on television as a true-crime expert. Krajicek is co-founder and first vice president of Criminal Justice Journalists. A native Nebraskan, he lives and works in the Catskill Mountains in New York.
Jack Kresnak, a 30-year veteran reporter for the Detroit
Free Press, started a juvenile justice beat at the newspaper
in 1988. His stories span a wide range of issues such as child abuse
and neglect, juvenile delinquency, child support and custody and
children's mental health. Over 14 years, Kresnak's reporting has
prompted changes in state laws, policies at the state agency responsible
for caring for children under juvenile court jurisdiction, and in
how juvenile court itself works. He frequently speaks to journalists
about how to cover the beat responsibly and ethically, as well as
how to overcome confidentiality restrictions in the juvenile justice
system. Among juvenile justice professionals, Kresnak's reporting
is recognized as not only fair and accurate, but also considerate
of the young people he writes about.
Among more than 20 awards he has received for his children-issues
reporting are the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism on behalf
of Children and Families, the Anna Quindlen Award from the Child
Welfare League of America, and the James K. Batten journalism excellence
award from Knight-Ridder Newspapers. In 2002, the National Association
of Child Advocates gave Kresnak its excellence in media award which
says "as a gifted and compassionate storyteller, your investigative
reporting so often brings about amazing results for Michigan children
who need relief most.''
Kresnak is a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit and
was a University of Michigan Journalism Fellow in 1989-90. He also
was a fellow in 1994 with the Casey Journalism Center for Children
and Families at the University of Maryland. Since 1998, he has been
a fellow with the Urban Health Initiative sponsored by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation working on ways to improve the lives of
at-risk children in five cities, including Detroit. He is immediate
past president of the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists.
Melissa Moore was named editorial adviser in the Office
of Student Media at Louisiana State University in January 2003.
She covered crime for The Advocate, a daily newspaper in
Baton Rouge, La., between 1993 and 2003, except for a brief stint
at the Fayetteville Observer-Times in North Carolina. In
2001-2, she was a fellow of the Institute for Justice and Journalism
at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Southern
California.
Maurice Possley is an investigative criminal justice reporter
for the Chicago Tribune, where he has been a reporter since 1984.
A reporter since 1972, he has covered state and federal civil and
criminal courts. His trial coverage includes that of Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh. Along with other Tribune reporters, he
has been a Pulitzer finalist twice for reporting on the criminal
justice system. His work and that of others at the Tribune was
cited by Illinois Governor George Ryan in 2003 when he commuted
all death sentences to life in prison. He is the author of "Everybody
Pays: Two Men, One Murder and the Price of Truth," the story
of a mob hitman and the witness against him, and "The Brown's
Chicken Massacre," the story of a mass murder in Palatine,
Il. A graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, he has been a visiting
professor of journalism at the University of Montana and the University
of Alaska.
Bill Wallace, a U.S. Navy veteran and Russian language specialist,
is assigned to investigative projects, organized crime and fraud
for the San Francisco Chronicle, where he has been a reporter
since 1980. A Berkeley resident, Wallace has freelanced for Rolling
Stone, Inquiry, New Times, Washington Post,
Ms., The Nation, In These Times, and PC
World, among others. He has won many awards, including several
from the San Francisco Press Club and the Society of Professional
Journalists.
Steve Weinberg writes about the criminal justice system as a freelancer for newspapers and magazines. He began freelancing full-time in 1978, after 10 years as a staff writer for newspapers and magazines. In 2003, the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., published a national study of prosecutors initiated and directed by Weinberg. The American Lawyer magazine and the Journal of the American Bar Association are among the magazines running Weinberg's byline on investigations of the criminal justice system. In addition, Weinberg is the author of seven nonfiction books. Since 1978, Weinberg has taught part-time at the University of Missouri Journalism School.
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