Hal Bernton has been a reporter with The Seattle Times since 2000. He received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for national defense reporting in 2013 and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2003 for his work with other Seattle Times reporters on 鈥淭he Terrorist Within.鈥� In 1989, he was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for 鈥淧eople in Peril,鈥� a series published by The Anchorage Daily News about Alaska鈥檚 native peoples.
Dan Egan has been covering the Great Lakes for The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel since 2003. He was a Pulitzer finalist for explanatory reporting in both 2013 and 2010. Egan won the Oakes Award for environmental journalism in 2006 and has received four National Headliner Awards for environmental and science reporting.
Lillian Thomas is assistant managing editor of special projects at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Since late 2012, her investigative team has broken dozens of stories about a federal investigation of the city of Pittsburgh that led to charges against the police chief, who resigned, and now has begun to focus on the city鈥檚 mayor. Thomas has also been a reporter, city editor and Sunday editor for The Post-Gazette.
