MARK ARSENAULT, general assignment reporter, joined The Providence Journal in 1998. He was part of the team that covered the 2003 fire at The Station nightclub for nearly a year. His 2004 profile of Craig Price, the Warwick teen who killed four neighbors in the 1980s, was based on some 40 prison interviews. Last summer, he wrote a five-week Sunday series on people at mid-life. The author of three mystery books, Arsenault writes an occasional Journal series on the craft of writing. Nobody outside the newspaper business has ever wanted to hire him. He has been a paperboy, a newspaper “section stuffer” and a truck driver for USA Today. He has been a reporter since 1989.

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JOHN FREIDAH has been a staff photographer at The Providence Journal since 1995, and was a fiber-optic engineer before changing careers. Freidah partnered with projo.com in 1997 to produce one of our first multimedia efforts, A Time to Die. His work with reporter Peter Lord on Poisoned: An in-depth look at Rhode Island's lead-poisoning crisis won a Newspaper Association of America Digital Edge Award for Public Service in 2002. Freidah's photography won first place in Pictures of the Year International. His work on the 2005 series, Saving Block Island, has won numerous awards. His more recent projects include Rough Seas, on the local fishing industry, and Borrowing Trouble, on foreclosures in Rhode Island. Freidah has traveled twice to the war zone in Iraq to cover Rhode Island troops. He is a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, N.J., with a degree in engineering and physics.

E-mail: jfreidah@projo.com