Bob Schieffer has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News. He is one of few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments. Most recently he has acted as the moderator of the 2008 presidential debate between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.

From TV to radio, HBO to NBC, ESPN to seven Olympics, Bob Costas has been prominently involved in virtually every major sports event and is praised for his interviewing and reporting skills. He has been honored as Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association a record eight times.

Studio analyst of NFL Pregame Show and Bowl Championship Series on Fox Sports, Jimmy Johnson built one of the most successful coaching records in football on both the professional and collegiate levels. As head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Jimmy Johnson led "Americas Team" to two consecutive Super Bowl titles and is one of two coaches to win both a Super Bowl title and a major college football championship.

As an award-winning anchor and correspondent, Elizabeth Vargas has traveled the world covering breaking news stories, reporting in-depth investigations and conducting newsmaker interviews. Vargas has also anchored ABC News coverage of live, breaking news stories and won an Emmy for Outstanding Instant Coverage of a News Story for anchoring live coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case.

Three-time Emmy award winning journalist and anchor of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, Anderson Cooper has covered nearly all of major news events around the world including the 2008 Presidential elections, the economic crisis, Hurricane Katrina, and the bombings in London.

It was on a photojournalism project in Southeast Asia that Bob Arno ventured into the depths of an underground subculture. Working on assignment for a series on swindles in the Asian marketplace, he tailed shortchange artists, pickpockets, and fake-jewelry hustlers. His exposes caught the attention of the U.S. Military and he was asked to give lectures on the subject.

News editor, columnist, political commentator, pundit, reporter and author, Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. Her column, Capitol Letter is posted each week on Newsweek.com and MSNBC. She is a regular political panelist on The McLaughlin Group and is a political contributor for the Fox News Channel.

Forrest Sawyer is one of America's most respected television journalists, with over 24 years of experience reporting from around the world. He is a veteran of ABC, CBS, and MSNBC. He has anchored the ABC magazine programs "Day One" and " ...

Columnist for The New York Times for over 40 years, Calvin Trillin is author of the book, Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme. Trillin has written and presented two one man shows at the American Place Theater in New York and is author of the memoirs Remembering Denny and Messages From My Father.

Veteran political journalist and bestselling author, Thomas DeFrank is the Washington bureau chief of the New York Daily News where he directs coverage of the nation's capital for the country's third-largest metropolitan daily newspaper. DeFrank is author of Write it When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford.