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is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Tampa Bay Times reporter who prefers writing about people in the shadows. Lane graduated from the University of Virginia, where she was editor in chief of the Cavalier Daily student newspaper. Later, she earned a master’s degree in rhetoric and communication studies from the University of Virginia. She previously worked for the Daily Progress and The Virginian-Pilot and moved to Florida in 2000 to write for the Times. She has won dozens of national awards, including twice winning Scripps Howard’s Ernie Pyle Award for human interest writing, eight National Headliner Awards and been recognized eight times by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She teaches at the University of South Florida, the Poynter Institute and journalism conferences across the world. Contact her at [email protected] or (727) 893-8825.

worked at newspapers, including the Tampa Bay Times, for 15 years and is now a freelance photographer in Los Angeles. She graduated from the University of Florida with a journalism degree. Her work has been published by ESPN.com, CNN.com, Mother Jones, Esquire, ProPublica, Inc. Magazine, Mashable, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Intercept, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, among others. She has been recognized by UNICEF, Photographer of the Year International, the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the Southern Short Course, the Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, and the Alexia Foundation student grant. She is currently president of the NPPA. Contact her at [email protected] or (813) 215-8329. Follow her blog www.melissalyttle.com/blog.

has been covering community journalism as a Tampa Bay Times staff photojournalist since 2001. She has won first-place awards from Photographer of the Year International and the Association of Food Journalists. Her photography career began in her high school darkroom in Scottsdale, Ariz., where she was yearbook photo editor. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a journalism degree. She previously worked for The San Francisco Chronicle and The Evansville Courier & Press. She also has taught photojournalism at Indiana University and in St. Petersburg public schools. Contact her at [email protected].