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Management consultant and private investor. Mr. Fox is President and Chief Executive Officer of Renaissance Brands Ltd. and a director of Hunter Fan Company, The Vitamin Shoppe, Microban International, Totes International, Inc., Young America, Inc. and the Daily Racing Form. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Compaq Computer Corporation and Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Marketing, International Paper Co. He was first elected to the Company s Board of Directors in 2001 and is a Class II director. His term will expire in 2010.

Justin Davidson, Newsday's classical music critic, won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2002. A native of Rome, Davidson worked as a stringer at the Rome bureau of the Associated Press before coming to the US to attend Harvard as a music major. While in college, he worked as a stringer for the Associated Press Boston bureau, studied classical guitar and began a career as a composer. After spending a year on a music fellowship in Paris, Davidson moved to New York City to pursue a doctoral degree in music composition at Columbia University, where he also was instructor and later adjunct professor of music. His compositions, which have been performed in the US, Italy, China and Eastern Europe, have won him grants and awards from the American Academy/ Institute of Arts and Letters, the Mellon Foundation, Meet the Composer, Columbia University and the Fondation des Etats-unis in Paris. He joined the staff of Newsday in 1996. In 2003, he added a second beat to his brief, becoming the paper's first architecture critic.

Anthony Rieber has been at Newsday since Aug. 31, 1998 and in his current position since July 4, 2004. Before that he worked for eight years at the NY Daily News, where he was best known for the headline "Clueless Joe" when the Yankees hired Joe Torre. He is also responsible for the lesser-known headline "Yanks Top Tribe in 10."

Arthur has been at Newsday since 1997 and has covered just about everything, from high schools to hockey to football and back again. He's a native of New York City and went to college in Boston. If he weren't a sports writer, his ideal gig would be playing guitar for The Hold Steady. Or maybe writing Hallmark cards.

Keeler is currently a member of the Newsday editorial board. He has covered Suffolk County government, been the Albany bureau chief, a national correspondent, the editor of The Newsday Magazine, and has covered religion.

Former Reporter and Bureau Chief Craig Gordon was a political writer in the Washington bureau and covered the local and national economy. Gordon was a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the crash of TWA Flight 800 in July, 1996.

Dan Janison has been a reporter at Newsday for 10 years, much of which was spent as a staff writer for the New York City edition. He has also served as City Hall reporter and as Deputy Long Island editor for politics. Before coming to Newsday, Janison worked as a reporter for the Staten Island Advance, Albany Times Union and New York Post.

Daniel Bubbeo is an assistant features news editor and also writes feature stories with an entertainment slant. He writes for the American Idol blog on Newsday.com and is the author of a book "The Women of Warner Brother's."

Former Newsday staff writer Denise Flaim, covered the nightclubs, fashion and e-shopping beats. She considered her Animal House column covering companion animals her most rewarding.

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday in 1967. In succession, he was named financial editor, New York Bureau Chief, City Hall Bureau Chief and in 1985, columnist.

Diane Werts writes about television for Newsday. Werts previously was the founding editor of Newsday's trend-spotting magazine TV Plus for three years, as well as the paper's entertainment editor.

Douglas T. Kushell is Founder and President of Franchise Search, Inc. Douglas Kushell is considered a pioneer and expert in all areas of franchise recruiting and placement. His 20 years of experience spans both domestic and international markets. Douglas' vision and insight revolutionized the employment industry in the early 1980's by dedicating a search firm specializing exclusively in franchising. Today, Franchise Search, Inc., is the main center for locating experienced franchise talent for the franchise community, domestically and internationally. Franchise Search, Inc., works exclusively for franchise organizations that need experienced franchise specialists in President, CEO, COO, Sales, Operations, Training, Marketing & Advertising, Legal, Finance, Real Estate & Construction and International Development. Franchise Search, Inc., possesses the most comprehensive database of computerized franchise talent in every discipline worldwide. Franchise Search, Inc., is the only franchise executive search firm with an active international office in South America. Douglas is an active member of the International Franchise Association, as well as the Council of Franchise Suppliers. Articles and columns by Douglas, and interviews with him, have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsday, Crain's, National Employment Weekly, Entrepreneur, Success, Franchising World and other major publications throughout the country.

Drew Fetherston is a former Newsday business staff writer and columnist. His column City & Co. in which he featured New York City businesses appeared on Monday.

Formerly of Newsday, Ed Lowe was hired as a reporter in October, 1969, and in 1976 started writing a regular column. For twenty-five years, Newsday readers enjoyed the skill, humanity and humor of Ed Lowe's work, whether he wrote about himself or the rest of us.

Edward Butscher is a highly regarded poet and critic whose works have appeared in numerous literary journals and publications, including The Saturday Review of Literature, Georgia Review, Newsday, and the American Book Review. His biography, Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale, published in 1988 by University of Georgia Press, won the Poetry Society of America's Melville Cane Award for that year. He lives in East Hampton, Long Island and Queens, New York with his wife, author and editor Paula Trachtman.