Earl Graves

Earl G. Graves is a nationally recognized authority on black business development and the founder and publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine.  In 1972, he was named one of the 10 most outstanding minority businessmen in the country by the president of the United States, and received the National Award of Excellence in recognition of his achievements in minority business enterprise.  He is also listed in Who's Who in America, and in 1974 was named one of Time Magazine's 200 future leaders of the country.

Black Enterprise is a business-service publication targeted to black professionals, executives, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the public and private sector.  It has a paid circulation of 510,000 with a readership of more than 3.9 million

In 2002, Graves was named by Fortune Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful and influential African Americans in corporate America. He is a member of the National Black College Hall of Fame and has also lectured at Yale University as a Poynter Fellow.  He received his B.A. degree in economics from Morgan State College (now Morgan State University) in Baltimore and has received honorary degrees from more than 60 colleges and universities.

Bill Keller

Bill Keller became executive editor of The New York Times in July 2003.  Before that he had been an Op-Ed columnist and senior writer for The New York Times Magazine as well as other areas of the newspaper since September 2001. Previously, he served as managing editor from 1997 until September 2001 after having been the newspaper’s foreign editor from June 1995 until 1997.  He was the chief of The Times bureau in Johannesburg from April 1992 until May 1995.

Before that, Keller had been a Times correspondent in Moscow from December 1986 until October 1991, the last three years as the newspaper’s bureau chief.  He won a Pulitzer Prize in March 1989 for his coverage of the Soviet Union.

Before coming to The Times, Keller had been a reporter for The Dallas Times Herald since October 1982.  From 1980 until 1982, he was a reporter for the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report in Washington, covering lobbyists and interest groups.  He was a reporter for The Portland Oregonian from July 1970 until March 1979.

He graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. degree in 1970 and has completed the Advanced Management Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He is currently a member of the board of trustees of Pomona College.

Jan Greenburg

Jan Crawford Greenburg is an ABC News legal correspondent based in Washington, D.C., covering the Supreme Court and national legal issues.  She provides legal analysis for all ABC News platforms.

Greenburg’s book on the Supreme Court, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court was published in January 2007 by Penguin Press.  The book is a penetrating and unvarnished look at the making of the current United States Supreme Court and a newsbreaking account of the coordinated campaign to move the Court in a more conservative direction. 

Prior to joining ABC, Greenburg was the national legal affairs reporter for the Chicago Tribune, the Supreme Court correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, and a legal analyst for CBS’ Evening News and Face the Nation. She covered the Supreme Court and national legal issues, including judicial appointments and confirmation battles.

Ms. Greenburg joined the Chicago Tribune in 1987, and began covering legal affairs in 1993 after her graduation from the University of Chicago Law School. She won the Tribune’s top reporting award in 2001, as part of a team of reporters who covered the 2000 presidential election and the subsequent legal battles over the White House.

Greenburg graduated from the University of Alabama in 1987.

Tim Russert

Tim Russert is the managing editor and moderator of Meet the Press and political analyst for NBC Nightly News and the Today Program.  He anchors The Tim Russert Show, a weekly interview program on CNBC and is a contributing anchor for MSNBC.  Russert also serves as senior vice president and Washington bureau chief of NBC News.

His two books -- Big Russ and Me in 2004 and Wisdom of Our Fathers in 2006 -- were both New York Times #1 bestsellers.

Russert took over the helm of Meet the Press in December 1991. Now in its 60th year, MTP is the longest-running program in the history of television.  Russert has interviewed every major figure on the American political scene.

Washingtonian Magazine dubbed Russert the best and most influential journalist in Washington, D. C., describing Meet the Press as “the most interesting and important hour on television.”

TV Guide selected his use of the white dry eraser board on Election Night 2000 as one of the “100 Most Memorable TV Moments” in history. The Washington Post credits him with coining the phrase “red state” and “blue state” to explain the nation’s political divide.

He is a graduate of John Carroll University and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Bob Schieffer

Bob Schieffer, broadcast journalism's most experienced Washington reporter, has been anchor and moderator of Face the Nation, CBS News' Sunday public affairs broadcast, since May 1991. He also serves as CBS News' chief Washington correspondent.

Schieffer has covered Washington for CBS News for more than 30 years and is one of the few broadcast or print journalist to cover all four major beats in the nation's capital -- the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and Capital Hill. He has been chief Washington correspondent since 1982 and Congressional correspondent since 1989. Schieffer has covered every presidential campaign and has been a floor reporter at all of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions since 1972.

Schieffer has won numerous journalism awards, including five Emmys and two Sigma Delta Chi Awards. In 2002, the National Press Foundation chose Schieffer as its Broadcaster of the Year.

Before joining CBS News, he was a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and in 1965, became the first reporter from a Texas newspaper to report from Vietnam. Schieffer later became news anchor at WBAP-TV Dallas/Fort Worth, a post that eventually led to his joining CBS News.

He began his professional career in 1957 while still a student at TCU.