Barrett has been a leading investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Daily News since 1986. She was the first to report on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's affair with former Telemundo newscaster Mirthala Salinas. Barrett's stories have included disclosing U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston's acceptance of nearly $1 million from businessman Charles Keating, radioactive and chemical pollution at Rockwell International's Southern California nuclear research laboratory and the LAPD's record of excessive force prior to Rodney King.
Banfield, a broadcaster with 52 years of radio and television experience, joined KABC-TV in 1967 as a field reporter. Working in the "Eyewitness News" Inland Empire bureau, Banfield has covered the sprawling Riverside and San Bernardino counties for more than a quarter of a century.
Rabe, a creative and skilled storyteller, landed his first job in radio before graduating from high school. His first public radio job was covering city and county government for WKAR in East Lansing, Mich. (He crashed the station car during his first month on the job.) He eventually tired of the cold and moved to California to join KPCC. After hosting “All Things Considered” and reporting on health care and housing issues, Rabe now hosts his own show, "Off-Ramp," a weekly program about news, arts and life in Southern California.
Tugend has come a long way since his days as a copyboy at the San Francisco Chronicle. The award-winning journalist is now a contributing editor for the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and West Coast correspondent for The Jerusalem Post in Israel, Jewish Chronicle in Britain, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New York. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Hadassah Magazine, Lifestyles Magazine and other publications. He has contributed to a number of books, including a profile of Steven Spielberg in "Jewish Family & Life: Traditions, Holidays, and Values."