He came to the Washington Bureau in 1976 as the Journal Herald's correspondent, joined the national staff in 1984 and was named foreign editor in 1989.

He has reported from more than 50 countries and covered armed conflicts in Vietnam, Angola, Iran and Iraq.

Alexander has won or shared in the Raymond Clapper award for distinguished Washington correspondence, the Global Media Award, the Thomas L. Stokes award for environmental reporting, the Ohio Associated Press award for investigative reporting (twice), and the Ohio Associated Press award for feature writing.

Holmes served seven years abroad for Cox Newspapers, as Middle East correspondent from 1993 to 1997, and as Moscow correspondent from 1997 to 2000.

He covered the rise and fall of the Oslo peace process, the 1994 civil war in Rwanda, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the decline of Russia through the end of the Yeltsin era and the 1999 war in Kosovo.

Holmes won the Best of Cox Award for deadline writing for his coverage of the 1996 Israeli elections. In 2000, he won the Best of Cox Award for column writing for his series of journals about life in Russia. He also shared a 2000 Best of Cox Award with other national and foreign staffers for team coverage of the Kosovo war and a Cox's Editor of the Year Award in 2002 for post-9/11 and Afghan war coverage for the chain.

Holmes joined Cox Newspapers in 1982 and his assignments have included national correspondent in the Washington Bureau and as state capital bureau chief and state/politics editor for the Palm Beach Post. Holmes, a native of Tennessee, is a graduate of George Washington University.

He began his career as a staff photographer at the Hillsdale (Mich.) Daily News in 1976, then moved to the Battle Creek Enquirer and News in 1977 and became chief photographer in 1980.

McKay transferred to USA Today in 1983 as A-section photo editor and also photographed sports. In June of 1984, he joined the national staff of the Cox Washington Bureau, becoming the first photographer on the staff.

Besides his Washington work, he has photographed special projects around the country and abroad.

He also served as Cox Politics Editor, overseeing the chain's coverage of the 2000 presidential election.

Before joining The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in the mid-1990s, he was managing editor and then executive editor of the Daily Report, an American Lawyer Media daily in Atlanta covering law, business and government.

He has also worked as a senior editor at Southpoint, a Time-Warner monthly magazine about the South, and as a writer and editor at CNN.

She worked in Tokyo from 1997-2000, first as a copy editor and reporter for Kyodo News, Japanìs main wire service, and then as a freelance writer for The Dallas Morning News and various U.S. and British publications. Her investigative stories included examining abuse in Japanese prisons and North Korean refugees living in China. Later, she worked as the Tokyo correspondent for UPI.

Anne worked as a reporter for the Washington bureau of the Hartford Courant in 1996 while getting her masterìs degree in journalism from American University, and later covered the capital for the Tokyo Shimbun.

Sheìs a graduate of Miami University and began her career at the Journal-News in Hamilton, Ohio.

She serves as chief liaison to Cox corporate offices for accounting, employee benefits and general policy and operational matters.

Burns has worked in administration at Harvard University from 1988 to 1994. From 1993-1995 she served as executive assistant to Marvin Kalb, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

She served for two seasons as associate producer for the broadcast series "The Kalb Report," which is co-sponsored by The George Washington University and the National Press Club.

Burns joined the Cox Washington Bureau in 1995.

She spent the first 20 years of her career in retail management, specializing in loss prevention and inventory control for a Washington-based department store chain. After the birth of her daughter, she moved on to the accounting field, serving as an A/P, A/R and Payroll Specialist for several Washington-based firms.

She joined Cox Newspapers in May 2007.

Barnhardt worked for the International Center for Journalism from 1995-1999 in general administration. She's also worked in various law firms as a time and billing coordinator.

A native of Washington, D.C., Barnhardt attended public schools.

She joined the Cox Washington Bureau in 1999.