Thomas E. Heslin is The Providence Journal's metropolitan managing editor. In 1994, as the managing editor of The Journal's investigative team, he shared the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for the newspaper's series on corruption in the Rhode Island court system.

Mike Stanton is the reporter who heads The Journal's investigative team. He helped cover the 1991 state banking crisis and shared the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. In 1997 he received the Master Reporter Award, recognizing career achievement, of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors.

Tracy Breton, a Journal reporter since 1973, has written extensively on courts and legal issues in general. She shared The Journal's 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, and in 1995 received the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' Master Reporter Award for career achievement.

David Herzog joined The Journal's investigative team last year as its specialist in computer-assisted reporting. As the editor for computer-assisted reporting at The (Allentown, Pa.) Morning Call and a business reporter at The Baltimore Sun, he shared an award from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association and in 1990 he received the Maryland-Delaware-District Press Association of Columbia Public Service Award.

W. Zachary Malinowski, who joined The Journal's investigative team in 1995, has reported extensively on law enforcement, organized crime, and public corruption. Before coming to The Journal, in 1985, he was a reporter at The Denver Post and The Tempe (Ariz.) Daily News. His work has been honored by the Rhode Island Press Association and the New England Associated Press News Executives.

Lynn Rognsvoog is the news-page designer of The Providence Sunday Journal. Before coming to The Journal, in 1995, she was the art director of the TAB Community Newspapers, of greater Boston, and the art director and managing editor of New England Business magazine. Her work in design and picture editing has won both regional and national awards.

A Providence Journal assistant city editor, Hilary Horton has also been an editor at Newsweek, Harvard Magazine, and several book publishers, working on the writing of diverse authors, among them Joyce Carol Oates, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Julia Child.

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