Joe Grimm has been newsroom recruiter and staff development coordinator at the Detroit Free Press since 1990. In 1997, he launched the JobsPage, a journalism career site. Grimm joined the Free Press in 1983 and has been a copy editor, news editor, front-page designer, weekend editor and ombudsman.

Pam Johnson is executive director of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. She previously was on the Poynter leadership faculty and was vice president/news and executive editor of The Arizona Republic. Pam is a past president of the Associated Press Managing Editors and a founder of the Journalism and Women's Symposium.

Ed Jones is editor of The Free Lance-Star, a 50,000-circulation daily in Fredericksburg, Va. , where he began his journalism career as an intern in 1965. He is a past president of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association.

John Kimball is senior vice president and chief marketing officer at the Newspaper Association of America, where he plays a lead role in marketing initiatives designed to increase revenue and grow circulation and readership in the newspaper industry

Mary Nesbitt is managing director of the Readership Institute at the Media Management Center, Northwestern University. The Institute was formed in 1999 by the national publishers’ and editors’ organizations to help U.S. daily newspapers grow readership. Nesbitt’s background is in journalism and teaching.

Carol Nunnelley is director of the Associated Press Managing Editors' NewsTrain and APME's National Credibility Roundtables. Nunnelley was managing editor of The Birmingham ( Alabama ) News.

George Rede is director of recruiting and training at The Oregonian in Portland, Ore. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan and a graduate of the Management Training Center at Northwestern University . He is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.