Todd Gillman - Correspondent, The Dallas Morning News

I started writing for my junior high school newspaper, the Redcoat. In high school, I freelanced a bit for the local weekly, wrote for the school paper and worked on a weekly public access TV news show that was long on enthusiasm and short on production values. During college at Johns Hopkins University, I interned for The Associated Press and later, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. I started at The Dallas Morning News as an intern after graduating from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government with a master's in public policy, got hired on the Texas & Southwest desk and spent the next several years covering plane crashes, hurricanes and state politics. After a few years as a general assignments reporter on the Metropolitan desk, I moved to the City Hall beat and later, became the local political writer and columnist. I moved to the Washington bureau after nearly two years as a Dallas-based national correspondent.