Judges

	Rose Marie Arce is a Senior Producer for CNN based in New York. She has served on the boards of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association as well as the San Francisco State University Newswatch project. She began her television career at CBS and WCBS where she won two Emmys for Spot News and Investigative Rporting. She was previously a print reporter, most recently for New York Newsday, where she shared the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting.
	Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor of The New Yorker, where he frequently writes the opening "Comment" column in "The Talk of the Town." From 1981 to 1992 he was with The New Republic, most of that time as the magazine's editor. He served on the White House staff throughout the Carter administration and was President Carter's chief speech writer during his last two years in office. He is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments" (2004), now a Penguin paperback. He has won four National Magazine Awards, most recently in 2006 for columns and commentary. He lives in New York with his wife and their eight-year-old son.
	Susan Meiselas joined Magnum Photos, a photography cooperative, in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. She is the author of three books: "Carnival Strippers", "Nicaragua", and "Pandora's Box" and editor of five collections: "Learn to See", "El Salvador: The Work of 30 Photographers", "Chile from Within", "Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History" and "Encounters with the Dani. " Her work in Latin America was widely published throughout the world in the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, the LONDON TIMES, TIME, GEO, PARIS MATCH, and MACHETE among others. Among her awards: Robert Capa Gold Medal (1979), Photojournalist of the Year (1982), Leica Award for Excellence (1982), Maria Moors Cabot Prize (1994), the Hasselblad Foundation Prize (1994) and most recently, the Cornell Capa Infinity Award (2005). In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow. She has had one-woman shows in New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, London, Madrid, and Paris and her work is collected in museum collections in Europe and the United States.
	Harold Meyerson is the Acting Executive Editor of The American Prospect, the liberal monthly, and served as the magazine’s Editor at Large from 2003 to 2006. He is also an op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, writing chiefly on politics. His column, which commenced in 2003, appears on Wednesdays. From 1989 through 2001, he was executive editor and chief political columnist of the L.A. Weekly, the nation’s largest alternative newspaper, and from 1991 through 1995, hosted the weekly show “Real Politics” on radio station KCRW, Los Angeles’ leading NPR affiliate. He is a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows. He is the also author of “Who Put The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?” (1995), a biography of Broadway lyricist Yip Harburg. In the 1970s and early 1980s, he was a staffer and consultant for a range of progressive organizations, and was a political consultant in the mid-80s. He lives in Washington, D.C., and swoops down on Los Angeles with some regularity to maintain the pretense of bi-coastalism.
	Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor and Publisher of The Nation. She is the co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right (NationBooks, 2004). She is also co-editor (with Stephen F. Cohen) of "Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers "(Norton, 1989) and editor of "The Nation: 1865-1990," and the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001. Her book, "A Dictionary of Republicanisms, (An Indispensable Guide to Their Doublespeak)", was published in November 2005. She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Her weblog for thenation.com is "Editor's Cut." She is a recipient of Planned Parenthood's Maggie Award for her article, "Right-to-Lifers Hit Russia." The special issue she conceived and edited, "Gorbachev's Soviet Union," was awarded New York University's 1988 Olive Branch Award. Vanden Heuvel was also co-editor of Vyi i Myi, a Russian-language feminist newsletter. She has received awards for public service from numerous groups, including The Liberty Hill Foundation, The Correctional Association and The Association for American-Russian Women. In 2003, she received the New York Civil Liberties Union's Callaway Prize for the Defense of the Right of Privacy. She is also the recipient of The American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee's 2003 "Voices of Peace" award, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s 2006 “Justice in Action” award. vanden Heuvel is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and she also serves on the boards of the Institute for Policy Studies, the Correctional Association of New York and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. She is a member of the National Advisory Board of Facing South (online) magazine and the Progressive Book Club Editorial Board. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, and she lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.