Three-time Emmy award winning journalist and anchor of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, Anderson Cooper has covered nearly all of major news events around the world including the 2008 Presidential elections, the economic crisis, Hurricane Katrina, and the bombings in London.

Prior to joining NBC News as the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Andrea Mitchell was NBC News' Chief White House Correspondent. Andrea covered the 2004 presidential campaign and has had numerous exclusive interviews including one with President Fidel Castro. Her first book is titled Talking Back, a memoir about her experiences as one of the first women to cover five presidents, Congress and foreign policy.

As a correspondent for NBC News, Ashleigh Banfield has appeared on the programs "The Today Show," "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," and "Dateline." She is an anchor on MSNBC and an Emmy Award winning international television news correspondent and host who has reported breaking news from across the country and around the globe.

During his career as a network newsman, Bill Kurtis covered such notable stories as the Richard Speck murders and the Charles Manson trial. In 1990 Bill founded Kurtis Productions which produced programs for A&E including Investigative Reports and Cold Case File. Bill provided satirical narration for the blockbuster hit, Anchorman. Bill's latest book is The Death Penalty On Trial: Crisis In American Justice.

It was on a photojournalism project in Southeast Asia that Bob Arno ventured into the depths of an underground subculture. Working on assignment for a series on swindles in the Asian marketplace, he tailed shortchange artists, pickpockets, and fake-jewelry hustlers. His exposes caught the attention of the U.S. Military and he was asked to give lectures on the subject.

From TV to radio, HBO to NBC, ESPN to seven Olympics, Bob Costas has been prominently involved in virtually every major sports event and is praised for his interviewing and reporting skills. He has been honored as Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association a record eight times.

Bob Schieffer has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News. He is one of few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments. Most recently he has acted as the moderator of the 2008 presidential debate between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.

Columnist for The New York Times for over 40 years, Calvin Trillin is author of the book, Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme. Trillin has written and presented two one man shows at the American Place Theater in New York and is author of the memoirs Remembering Denny and Messages From My Father.