Jan Katz Ackerman, reporter, The Hays (Kan.) Daily News

Joan Benson-Cacchione, staff writer, Erie (Pa.) Times-News

Kevin Bersett, assistant news editor, Rio Grande Sun, Espanola, New Mexico

Lisa Black, staff reporter, Chicago Tribune

Dwayne Campbell, reporter, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Josephine Cheng, reporter, KING-TV, Seattle

Cammi Clark, reporter, The Post-Standard, Syracuse, N.Y.

Heather Clark, newsperson, The Associated Press, Albuquerque, N.M.

Jane Clifford, family editor, The San Diego Union-Tribune

Eric Frazier, staff writer, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer

Jennifer Friedlin, freelance writer, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Cynthia Leonor Garza, general assignment reporter, Houston Chronicle

Robert Gutsche, Jr., reporter, The Journal Times, Racine, Wis.

Aimee Heckel, general assignment reporter, Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera

Leann Holt, staff writer, The Albuquerque Journal,

Sharon Jayson,  reporter, USA Today, McLean, Va.

Whitney Joiner, senior associate editor, Seventeen magazine, New York City

James Joyce III, education reporter, Yakima (Wash.) Herald-Republic

Gina Kim, staff writer, The Sacramento Bee

Karin Klein, editorial writer, Los Angeles Times

Sandra Baltazar Martínez, reporter, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.

Katy Murphy, education reporter, The Daily Review, Hayward, Calif.

Robert Sanchez, regional enterprise reporter, The Denver Post

Kerry Seed, assistant director and senior producer, Blunt Youth Radio Project, Portland, Maine

David Tarrant, senior writer, The Dallas Morning News

Erin Waldner, reporter, The Bakersfield Californian