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RUSSELL CAROLLO

Russell Carollo, 48, has been a special projects reporter for the Dayton Daily News since 1990. He has worked for newspapers in Washington state, Mississippi, Louisiana and California. He is a native of New Orleans, and has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Louisiana State University and a bachelor's in history from Southeastern Louisiana University. He also was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan. In 1998, Carollo won the Pulitzer Prize for a Dayton Daily News series of stories on medical malpractice in the U.S. military.

Phone: (937) 225-2399

rcarollo@DaytonDailyNews.com

MEI-LING HOPGOOD

Mei-Ling Hopgood, 30, has been the Washington correspondent covering politics and the federal government for the Dayton Daily News since 2001. The Detroit-area native has worked at the Detroit Free Press and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia, and was a Freedom Forum fellow at the University of Hawaii, where she focused on China. She also studied Spanish at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in Mexico.

Phone: (202)887-8328,

mhopgood@coxnews.com

CHRIS STEWART

Chris Stewart, 40, has been a staff photographer at the Dayton Daily News since 2000. Previously, he worked at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He earned a bachelor of science degree in journalism at Kansas State University. He is a native of McPherson, Kan.

Phone: (937) 225-7374,

cstewart@DaytonDailyNews.com

[From the Dayton Daily News: 10.26.2003]