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Desiree Hanford is a professor and the director of academic integrity and appeals at Medill. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that include news reporting and business and money reporting. Desiree is the co-faculty adviser for the Northwestern Business Review and a contributing... Read More →

Ziva Branstetter has been a senior editor at ProPublica since March 2022. Work she has edited at ProPublica has received national honors including two Polk awards.She previously served as corporate accountability editor at The Washington Post, where she led the award-winning Pandora... Read More →

Jason Leopold is a senior investigative reporter at Bloomberg News. He is a recipient of the 2023 Gerald Loeb award for investigative reporting, a 2022 George Polk award for health reporting and has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2016, Leopold was awarded the FOI... Read More →

David Cuillier is director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. He was a data journalist before earning his doctorate from Washington State University in 2006. He is co-author of The Art of Access: Strategies... Read More →