Bob Abernethy Executive Editor and Host
Veteran television news correspondent Bob Abernethy is the executive editor and host of RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, which he developed and created for PBS in 1997 and is now marking its 12th season on the air. The half-hour newsmagazine has been widely praised by critics and won numerous awards for its thoughtful and insightful coverage of all religions, all denominations and all expressions of spirituality in American life, as well as for balanced presentation of the profound moral issues facing the nation.
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Arnold Labaton Executive Producer
Arnold Labaton is an award-winning producer and executive with more than 40 years experience in television production and management. He has served as executive producer on a number of PBS programs including MEDIA MATTERS, a series of primetime specials about the news media; two feature-length documentaries, ARGUING THE WORLD about four New York intellectuals and A LIFE APART, a look inside the American Hasidic Jewish community; and the nine-hour miniseries, HERITAGE: CIVILIZATION AND THE JEWS WITH ABBA EBAN.
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Kim Lawton Managing Editor/ Correspondent
Kim Lawton is an award-winning reporter, producer, writer and editor who has worked in broadcast media and print for more than 20 years covering religion, ethics, and culture.
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Phil Jones Contributing Correspondent
Phil Jones has been an award-wining correspondent for CBS NEWS for more than three decades. At the network, he served as a White House correspondent during the Gerald Ford administration and as chief Capitol Hill correspondent. He reported from the Vietnam battlefields and covered the resignation of President Richard Nixon and the trial and impeachment of President Bill Clinton. During Campaign 2000, he chronicled Republican Senator John McCain’s run for the White House and provided a weekly overview of the presidential campaign.
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Fred de Sam Lazaro Contributing Correspondent
Fred de Sam Lazaro is director of the Under-Told Stories Project, a program that combines teaching and international journalism, and a senior distinguished fellow at the Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.
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Tim O’Brien Contributing Correspondent
Tim O’Brien is an attorney and an award-winning journalist whose achievements include covering the U.S. Supreme Court for ABC News for more than 22 years. He is a recognized expert on the court, its justices, and the development of a generation of constitutional law. Following his tenure at ABC News, O’Brien served as the principal Washington correspondent for CNN’s Moneyline, the network’s flagship business program (2001-2003). O’Brien has also been named Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans (2005), Hofstra University School of Law in New York (2000), St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami (2001) and the Nova Southeastern University School of Law in Ft. Lauderdale (1999, 2002, 2004 and 2008.)
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Deborah Potter Contributing Correspondent
Deborah Potter is a veteran reporter, anchor, and journalism trainer who spent 16 years as a correspondent for CBS News and CNN. She is executive director of NewsLab, a nonprofit journalism resource center in Washington, D.C., which she founded in 1998.
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Betty Rollin Contributing Correspondent                                                                                  Award-winning journalist and acclaimed author Betty Rollin began her television career in 1973 as a correspondent for NBC NEWS where she reported on human interest stories for TODAY and NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, including a series on the American Indians of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, which won both the Alfred I. duPont and Emmy Award.
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Lucky Severson Contributing Correspondent
Lucky Severson is an Emmy award-winning correspondent and producer with more than 30 years of experience in broadcast journalism. Until 2003, he served as correspondent and anchor for SECRETS OF THE SEQUENCE, a weekly news magazine series that aired over public television stations nationwide.
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Judy Valente Contributing Correspondent
Judy Valente is an award-winning journalist and a published poet. She served as a staff writer for The Washington Post and at The Wall Street Journal in the Chicago and London bureaus. She was twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist — most recently in 1993 — for her front page story in The Wall Street Journal chronicling the life of a Midwest father caring for his son dying of AIDS. Her articles have also appeared in People and Parade magazines. Valente is also the author of “Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul,” an anthology of poems and reflections on finding the sacred in the everyday.
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Mary Alice Williams Contributing Correspondent
Mary Alice Williams is an award-winning writer, anchor, correspondent and television host who has made extensive contributions as a journalist for over 30 years.  Williams rose to national prominence as one of the founding anchors and designers of CNN, the first worldwide television network. She was later named vice president in charge of CNN’s New York bureau, overseeing the planning and organization of what was the network’s second largest bureau and becoming one of the highest ranking female executives in American television.
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Saul Gonzalez Contributing Correspondent
Saul Gonzalez is a reporter and producer for KCET-TV, the PBS affiliate in Los Angeles. He has widely contributed to public television for more than 15 years. Gonzalez began his broadcast career as a news researcher at KCET following his graduation from UCLA.
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