Mc Nelly Torres is co-founder and associate director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. She is also a board member for Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Florida Society of News Editors. Previously, Torres was a reporter for five daily newspapers, including the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the San Antonio Express-News and the Morning News in South Carolina. In addition, Torres was the stimulus team leader for EdMoney.org, a project of the Education Writers Association. She has won several national and regional awards for her work.
Trevor Aaronson is co-founder and associate director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. He was a 2010-2011 fellow at the University of California-Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program. Previously, Aaronson was an investigative reporter and editor for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., and a staff writer for Village Voice Media‘s newspapers in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Aaronson has won more than two dozen national and regional awards for his work. His forthcoming book about FBI terrorism stings, The Terror Factory, will be published by Ig Publishing in January 2013.
Howard Goodman, a prize-winning journalist with 35 years of experience, is a blogger/reporter. A former metro columnist and editor at the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Goodman more recently worked as a newspaper editor in Shanghai and Hong Kong. He’s been an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, an editor at Bloomberg News, and a staff writer at newspapers in Kansas City and Salem, Ore. Originally from Chicago, Goodman graduated from Cornell University and the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in Delray Beach.
John Dolen is a contributing editor. He served in a variety of editorial management roles in 27 years at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. During this period, ending in 2008, Dolen edited projects, special sections, front-page reports and was responsible for seeking and developing columnists, critics and specialty editors. He earned a B.A. in English at the University of Maryland and worked for several smaller publications before coming to the Sun-Sentinel in 1980. He lives in Davie and is working on multiple book projects in addition to freelance editing and writing.
Tristram Korten is a contributing editor. He is a Miami-based journalist who writes about armed conflict, environmental issues, and human rights concerns domestically and throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. His work has appeared in Salon, Mother Jones, Details Magazine, the Miami Herald, the New York Times, the Nature Conservancy Magazine, Miller-McCune, Maclean’s newsweekly (Canada), Courier International (France) and Maxim (Brazil), among many others. He was a columnist for the weekly Miami New Times, where he won numerous state, regional, and national awards for everything from features to investigative work.
Grant Smith is a contributing data reporter. He specializes in data reporting, analysis and GIS mapping, and his work can currently be found regularly in The Commercial Appeal in Memphis. He has also worked for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Gannett News Service. He teaches a web development course at the University of Memphis and blogs about beer at FuzzyBrew.com. He received his master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, where he worked for the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting and as an assistant city editor for the Columbia Missourian daily newspaper.
