ATTACK on AMERICA - Osama bin Laden

Journalist Bios

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Belo staff list More than two dozen Belo broadcast, print and Internet journalists have joined forces to cover the war in Afghanistan and the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Here is a list of the reporters, editors and photojournalists working full time in Central Asia and our Washington bureau.
	Sharon Bender Belo Washington bureau, reporting from Washington is executive producer at the Belo Capital Bureau. She has worked for Belo in Washington DC since 1995. As producer for Capital Conversation, a weekly public affairs program, Sharon was part of a team that won a Press Club of Dallas Katie Award. Before joining Belo, Sharon was the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. producer for the NBC station in Burlington, Vermont/Plattsburgh, New York. Prior to that she worked as a newswriter for Medialink in New York City. Sharon is a graduate of Cornell University and she earned a Master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
	Ged Carbone The Providence Journal, reporting from Afghanistan has been a staff writer at The Providence Journal since 1988. He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 1998-99; is a two-time winner of AP's award for best New England feature story; and in 1995 won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award for non-deadline writing.
	Dave Cassidy Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington began his reporting career in 1974 at WFAA Television in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. He served as WFAA's Fort Worth Bureau Chief for the better part of ten years. In 1985, Dave was the lead live reporter during WFAA's coverage of the crash of Delta Flight 191 at DFW Airport. And in 1987, Dave was honored as Texas Television Reporter of the Year, in part for his live reporting of the Jessica McClure rescue in Midland, Texas. From 1988 to 1990, Dave served as News Director of KOTV-Television in Tulsa, Oklahoma, followed by a six-year stint as News Director of WVEC-Television in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1996, Dave became Broadcast Bureau Chief for the newly-established Belo Capital Bureau in Washington, DC.
	Tracey Eaton The Dallas Morning News Cuba Bureau, reporting from Afghanistan is Cuba bureau chief of The Dallas Morning News. He was previously Mexico City bureau chief. A Denver native, he gradutated from Rutgers College and was a Fulbright scholar in Ecuador. He has been a journalist for 18 years, the last eight with The Dallas Morning News.
	Mike Goldfein Belo Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington has been a journalist for 25 years, beginning his career as a news photographer with KSTW in Seattle. As an on-camera reporter, Mike has worked at KREM-TV in Spokane, and at KUTV-TV in Salt Lake City. He has been in Washington, D.C. since 1984, first serving as KUTV’s bureau chief, and then as a correspondent with Hearst Broadcasting and now Belo Broadcasting. His stories have won Emmy awards, and numerous Sigma Delta Chi Excellence In Journalism awards. His documentaries have earned the Gold Award from the New York Film Festival and the Chicago Film Festival. In 1999 he was honored with a prestigious fellowship at the Jack R. Howard Science Institute at Caltech.
	Robert Hillman The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington has been a national and White House correspondent for The Dallas Morning News in Washington since January, 1997. He was deputy chief of the Washington Bureau from 1988 to 1997 and chief of the Austin Bureau from 1984 to 1988. He has reported on the last six presidential campaigns - in 1980 for The Chicago Sun-Times and in 1984, 1988, 1992 and 2000 for The Dallas Morning News. In 1997, he covered the Oklahoma City bombing trial in Denver. He joined The Dallas Morning News in April, 1984.
	Stacy Hutchins Belo Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington began covering national politics as a print reporter with United Press International. She served as a Washington correspondent for Atlanta's WAGA-TV and other television stations prior to joining The Providence (R.I.) Journal/King Broadcasting in 1992. At the Belo Capitol Bureau, her general assignment beat covers the southeast and mid-west regions with special focus on consumer, health, education and childrens issues.
	David Jackson The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington has been in the Belo Corporation's Washington bureau since 1995. He covered the Justice Department, the Supreme Court, and the 2000 presidential campaign before being assigned to the White House this year. Before moving to Washington, Jackson worked eight years for The Morning News in Dallas, Texas, covering criminal courts, City Hall, and local politics. He also worked at newspapers in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Augusta, Ga., Orangeburg, S.C., and Rock Hill, S.C. A native of South Carolina, Jackson has a graduate degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
	Gregg Jones The Dallas Morning News Asia Bureau, reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan has been the Asia Bureau Chief of The Dallas Morning News since 1997. Prior to opening the Asia bureau in Bangkok, he covered the energy industry and OPEC for The News. He has spent half of his 20-year reporting career in Asia, including five years based in the Philippines during the 1980s. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992 and is the author of RED REVOLUTION: Inside the Philippine Guerrilla Movement (Westview Press: 1989).
	Greg Katz The Dallas Morning News London Bureau, reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan has been the Europe Bureau Chief of the The Dallas Morning News since 1994. He served prior to that as the bureau chief in Mexico. Mr. Katz was part of The Dallas Morning News team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1994. He has reported on conflicts in many parts of the world and has traveled extensively in Russia and the Middle East. Mr. Katz's stories have been published in a number of national magazines, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, GQ, and others.
	Jim Landers The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington covers business and international affairs stories from Washington for The Dallas Morning News. He joined the News in 1981 after working as an overseas journalist in Saudi Arabia and Ireland. Jim was international editor of The News from 1988 to 1994. The News won the 1994 Pultizer Prize for International reporting for a series called "Violence Against Women: A Question of Human Rights." The News was a finalist for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for a series called "Hidden Wars." Before and after his stint as International Editor, Jim has worked as a correspondent in the Washington Bureau covering energy, trade, economics, technology and international affairs. He writes "Worldview," a column published in the Business News section of The Dallas Morning News.
	Christopher Lee The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington covers Congress and the Texas delegation for The Dallas Morning News. He previously worked in the paper's Austin bureau and on the metropolitan desk covering Dallas, Texas City Hall and the Dallas, Texas school system. Mr. Lee joined The Dallas Morning News in 1991 after earning degrees from Haverford (Pa.) College and Harvard University.
	Carl P. Leubsdorf The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington is Washington bureau chief of The Dallas Morning News, a position he has held since 1981. His weekly analytical column on political and governmental issues for the Viewpoints page of The News has appeared every Thursday since March 1981. A graduate of Cornell University and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, he has worked in Washington for all but three of his 41 years as a professional journalist. Before joining The Dallas Morning News, he worked for The Associated Press for 15 years, the last three as its chief political correspondent, and was a White House and political correspondent for The Baltimore Sun. He covered Congress for 12 years and the White House for 20 years. In 1995-96, he was president of the White House Correspondents' Association. He has covered every president since Dwight D. Eisenhower and every presidential election since 1960. As bureau chief of The Dallas Morning News, he has supervised and participated in coverage of the last five presidential elections, the Persian Gulf war and the Clinton impeachment proceedings.
	Kathy Lewis The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington has been the deputy Washington bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News since September 1998. Prior to that, she was a White House correspondent for 15 years. In 1995 she received the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for White House coverage. Before joining The News in 1990, she was the Washington bureau chief for The Houston Post. She has covered foreign and domestic policy as well as politics. Before coming to Washington in 1981, she was a reporter and editor in Houston. A 1970 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she is from Webb City, Mo.
	Michelle Mittelstadt Belo Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington has covered the Justice Department, federal law enforcement and immigration policy for The Dallas Morning News in Washington since May 2000, also serving as a back-up editor. She was The Associated Press' Texas regional reporter in Washington from 1991 to 2000, covering news of interest in the nation's capital for nearly 100 newspapers and 300 broadcast outlets in Texas. Before that, she was based in Dallas with the AP, serving as night editor from 1989 to 1991. A native of Belleville, N.J., Ms. Mittelstadt was raised in Europe.
	Cheryl Diaz Meyer The Dallas Morning News, reporting from Afghanistan joined the photography staff of The Dallas Morning News in January 2000. She has been photographing professionally since 1990, having worked at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis for over five years. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Western Kentucky University and a Bachelor of Arts in German from the University of Minnesota. Cheryl has won numerous prizes for her work, including Minnesota Photographer of the Year in 1998.
	Jim Morris The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington has been a print journalist for 23 years, specializing in public health, social services and transportation safety. He has won more than 50 national, state and local awards. Morris has worked at a number of newspapers in California and Texas, including the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Times Herald, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Sacramento Bee. Before joining the The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau in September, he spent two years on the investigative team at U.S. News & World Report. He covers regulatory agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration and the Food and Drug Administration.
	John E. Mulligan The Providence Journal Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington is The Providence Journal's Washington Bureau chief. He joined The Providence Journal in 1974 and was covering Providence City Hall in 1977 when he got his first assignments in Washington: Jimmy Carter's presidential inauguration and Rep. Thomas P. "Tip'' O'Neill Jr.'s installation as Speaker of the House. He joined the Belo's Capitol Bureau in Washington in 1978 and became bureau chief in 1981. A 1972 graduate of Columbia College who worked on weekly newspapers in suburban New York, Mulligan now lives in McLean, Va., with his wife, Nancy A. Mulligan, and their four children.
	Tod Robberson The Dallas Morning News Latin America Bureau, reporting from Afghanistan is Latin America bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News. Based in Panama City, he reports from throughout South America, Central America and the Caribbean. He also has reported for The Morning News from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Pakistan. He came to The News from the Washington Post, where he served as Mexico City bureau chief and assistant foreign editor. He also has worked as Middle East correspondent and San Salvador bureau chief for Reuters. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University and holds a master’s degree with an emphasis in Arab studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
	Claire Vitucci The Riverside Press-Enterprise Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington arrived at Belo's Capital Bureau in September to cover Washington for The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California. She has worked at The Press-Enterprise for the past two years, starting as a suburban reporter before moving to the political beat last year. As a politics reporter, she covered the 2000 elections as well as the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Ms.Vitucci is a native of Long Island, New York. She is a graduate of Hofstra University.
	Richard Whittle The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau, reporting from Washington covers national security affairs for the The Dallas Morning News, which he joined in 1984. Mr. Whittle previously covered foreign policy for Congressional Quarterly magazine and was an editor at National Public Radio. Fluent in German, Mr. Whittle also speaks conversational French. He has written for German-language publications including Die Zeit (Hamburg), Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Zurich) and Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Munich). He is an occasional interview guest on German radio and television.