Margaret Engel is director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. She also serves on the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and chairs the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. She is a former Nieman Fellow and former managing editor of the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Previously, Margaret was an editor and reporter for The Washington Post and a reporter for The Des Moines Register. She is co-author of “Red Hot Patriot,” a one-woman show based on the writings of Molly Ivins; and of “Ballpark Vacations: Great Family Trips to Minor League and Classic Major League Ballparks Across America” and “Food Finds: America’s Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them.”
Vernon Loeb, a veteran investigative reporter and editor, is the local editor at The Washington Post. He began his career at The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1978 and rose through the reporting ranks over the next 16 years, serving as Southeast Asia correspondent and city hall bureau chief. In 1994, Vernon joined The Washington Post as a city reporter covering D.C. Mayor Marion Barry. Later, he moved to the Post’s national staff, where he served as a correspondent for both national security and the Pentagon. He left the Post in 2004 to become California investigations editor at the Los Angeles Times. He returned to the Inquirer in 2007 as deputy managing editor for news and multimedia. In February, he assumed his current position at the Post.
William K. Marimow is the executive editor of News21, an in-depth, digital journalism project based at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. As a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Marimow won Pulitzer Prizes in 1977 and 1985. After leaving the paper in 1993, he became editor of the Baltimore Sun and later vice president for news at National Public Radio. In 2006, he returned to The Inquirer, where he served as editor until fall 2010.
Henry Weinstein is a professor of the practice of law and a senior lecturer in literary journalism at the University of California, Irvine. In addition to being a lawyer, he was a journalist for nearly 40 years, including 30 at the Los Angeles Times, where he covered local and national politics, labor and law. During that time, Henry was often recognized for journalistic achievement, including the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, which the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism presents annually to a journalist “whose reporting over time shows courage, integrity, curiosity and intelligence and epitomizes the role of journalism in a free society.” He was one of the founders of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, Calif., and currently is serving on a committee of the California State Bar Association that is seeking to enhance legal representation for low-income people in civil cases.
