David Boardman - Dave Boardman serves as executive editor of The Seattle Times. He has oversight and responsibility for the news department of Washington state’s largest newspaper, and for its Web site, seattletimes.com. As an editor for The Times, Boardman has directed two Pulitzer Prize-winning team projects and edited six other stories that were Pulitzer finalists.
Before joining The Times in 1983, Boardman was a reporter and editor at several papers in the Northwest, and worked on a construction project in Liberia, West Africa.
Boardman is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and has a graduate degree from the University of Washington.
Walt Bogdanich - Walt Bogdanich became the investigations editor for the Business and Finance Desk of The New York Times in January 2001. He was named an assistant editor for the paper's newly expanded Investigative Desk in 2003.
Before joining The Times in 2001, he was an investigative producer for "60 Minutes" on CBS and before that for ABC News. Previously, he worked as an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York and Washington. He has also worked for The Cleveland Press and The Plain Dealer.
Mr. Bogdanich was awarded Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2005 for his series, "Death on the Tracks." He won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for his articles in The Wall Street Journal on substandard medical laboratories. He has also won four George Polk Awards, an IRE Award, and an Overseas Press Club award.
Martin Reynolds - Martin Reynolds is editor at the Oakland Tribune.
Reynolds grew up in Berkeley and began his career in journalism as a Chips Quinn intern at the Tribune in 1995. He's been with the Oakland Tribune ever since, working first as a reporter on the metro staff, then as assistant city editor and associate editor.
Since November 2006, Reynolds has served as managing editor, directing the staff through a series of groundbreaking projects and initiatives that have repositioned the Tribune as a community leader.
Rhonda Schwartz - Rhonda Schwartz is a Senior Investigative Producer for ABC News. Ms. Schwartz joined ABC News in 1995, along with Chief Correspondent Brian Ross, to form the Brian Ross Investigative Unit.
The unit provides breaking news and in-depth investigative reporting for all the ABC News programs, including World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Good Morning America, 20/20, Prime Time Thursday and Nightline.
Mark Smith - Mark Smith is the investigative producer for WFAA-TV in Dallas. Two series he produced each won broadcast journalism's most prestigious honors: the Peabody Award and duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton.
One of the series revealed that Texas regulators often ignored possible fraud and questionable practices by workers' compensation insurance carriers. The other series detailed how paid confidential informants planted billiard chalk to contrive drug cases against dozens of innocent Mexican immigrants. The series led to the dismissal of drug charges against more than 70 defendants and prison terms for three informants and a police officer.
Marcus Stern - Marcus Stern is a journalist and the author of The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the Most Corrupt Congressman Ever Caught.
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The theme of the 3rd Annual Logan Symposium on Investigative Reporting is on bribery and corruption and includes the world premiere of a new PBS Frontline documentary on bribery in international commerce.
A series of high-profile panels focus on reporting about bribery and feature investigative reporters and producers, as well as federal prosecutors and whistleblowers.
The Reporting on Domestic Corruption panel features Walt Bogdanich, The New York Times; Martin Reynolds, The Oakland Tribune; Rhonda Schwartz, ABC News; Mark Smith, WFAA Dallas; and Marcus Stern, ProPublica.
