Gene Amole
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Gene began his journalistic career in 1942 as a radio broadcaster. After a brief interruption during World War II, he returned to Denver and to broadcasting. He departed to cover the Korean War as a civilian correspondent. He helped to found radio station KDEN in 1956 and KVOD a year later. Amole also has written and produced television programs and has been an anchorman since the early days of broadcast journalism. He has been a columnist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News since 1977. Amole was recently inducted into the Denver Press Club's Journalism Hall of Fame, after a career of distinguished awards.

Peter Blake
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Peter Blake has written a regular political column since 1989 and, since 1995, has also written editorials. During his three decades at the News he has covered most of the paper's beats and for a time served as city editor. In his leisure time he manages and plays on a team in the Men's Senior Baseball League. If you're over 40 and can pitch, please call or e-mail him.

Paul Campos
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A native of Colorado, Paul Campos practiced law in Chicago before returning to his home state in 1990 to join the law faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has written extensively on the role of law in American society. His most recent book is Jurismania: The Madness of American Law. Since March of 1999 he has written a weekly column for the Denver Rocky Mountain News.

Vincent Carroll
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Vincent Carroll, editor of the editorial pages, is a longtime resident of Denver whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron's. He has also been a syndicated columnist for the Newspaper Enterprise Association.

Bob Jackson
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Bob Jackson, a Chicago native, has worked at the Denver Rocky Mountain News since 1982 as a staff writer and columnist, specializing in ethnic minority affairs. He has covered the 1963 March on Washington; the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr's Chicago campaign; and the 1968 riots in Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles. Jackson has won several community awards in Denver, and he has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes.

Holger Jensen
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Holger has been a foreign correspondent, magazine writer, and newspaper editor for over 30 years. He has worked for the Associated Press, Newsweek and other publications while stationed in Moscow, Vietnam, Beirut, Hong Kong and Johannesburg. Jensen has won numerous awards, including the Associated Press Managing Editors' top photo award for a picture of a Vietnamese soldier fleeing Laos and the Overseas Press Club's top foreign reporting award for his coverage of Palestinian guerrillas and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

Bill Johnson
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Bill has gained most of his journalistic experience on the west coast as a staff writer, reporter, editor and columnist. He has also been a faculty member of the University of Arizona's Editing Program for Minority Journalists within the Institute for Journalism Education. Johnson won the National Headliner Award's First Place for Columns in 1995 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary in 1993.

Mike Littwin
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Mike has moved back to writing a news column. He came to the Rocky Mountain News three years ago as a sports columnist from the Baltimore Sun, where he wrote a sports column for seven years and a general column for five. Before that, he worked at the Los Angeles Times as a sports and national news feature writer. Mike has contributed to many magazines, including Sports Illustrated, Esquire, TV Guide and Capital Style. Last year, he was a finalist for commentary in the American Society of News Editors' distinguished writing contest. He was also named a national finalist for the seventh time in column writing by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

Gary Massaro
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Award-winning suburban columnist Gary Massaro is a Colorado native. He grew up in Pueblo, graduating with honors from Central High School in 1968 and without honors from the University of Southern Colorado in 1976. Massaro specializes in covering common folks who do something uncommon. Massaro has been a reporter 22 years. He has flown with the Navy Blue Angels, covered the MGM-Grand Hotel fire in Las Vegas, and traveled with Pope John Paul II from Rome to Jamaica to Mexico to Denver for World Youth Day in 1993.

Penny Parker
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After six years as a business writer at The Denver Post, Parker opted to "cross Colfax" and join the Denver Rocky Mountain News as the On the Town columnist. Parker's background includes seven years as a feature writer at The (Everett) Herald, a Washington Post-owned newspaper in Washington state, and a short stint as managing editor for two weeklies near Bellevue, Wa. As a feature writer, she won numerous awards, as well as a Society of Business Editors and Writers award for business writing. Parker is a California native and graduate of San Francisco State University.

Mike Patty
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Mike Patty has worked at the Denver Rocky Mountain News for more than 22 years during which time he has covered police, courts and government. He grew up in Denver and graduated from Lutheran High School and Western State College. He served 4 years in the Air Force.

Mike Rosen
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Mike Rosen hosts Denver's most popular local radio talk show on 850 KOA. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Denver, was a corporate finance executive at Samsonite and Beatrice Foods, served as Special Assistant for Financial Management to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the Pentagon and is a veteran of the U.S. Army. He's traveled extensively in Europe, the Far East, Latin America, southern Africa and the former Soviet Union. Mike grew up in New York and has lived in Colorado for thirty years.

Linda Seebach
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Before starting her career in journalism, Linda Seebach was a college mathematics professor, the owner of a small printing business catering to the antique-car hobby and an English teacher at a university in Shanghai. She moved into journalism by way of the Minnesota Daily, the independent student paper at the University of Minnesota, where she did graduate work in linguistics. She later was an editorial writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News and editorial page editor of the Valley Times in Pleasanton, Calif.

Ed Stein
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Ed has been the editorial cartoonist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News for 20 years. His cartoons are syndicated internationally to some 600 newspapers by United Media. His work is reprinted on occasion in all the usual periodicals. Every once in a while, he wins a local or national journalism award for his work. He is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

Jean Torkelson
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Jean Torkelson joined the News in 1992, moving from editorial writing to the religion beat in 1995. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she began a deliberately checkered journalism career, first as a television reporter at the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis/St Paul. For one pre-Reagan year she was press secretary to the governor of Minnesota. She moved to Wales in 1979 to study journalism at City College, Cardiff. Before coming to Denver she had been a broadcast/TV critic and a general interest columnist for the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times Leader.