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The Capital News Service bureaus in Annapolis and Washington are now operating for the fall semester. Annapolis bureau director Rafael Lorente can be reached at 410-626-1008 or 301-858-5431. Washington bureau director Adrianne Flynn can be reached at 202-628-1677.

CNS will continue to make still photographs, video and audio available to clients through http://www.journalism.umd.edu/cns/wire/extras, as well as the award-winning student-produced copy that our clients have come to rely on. Our Maryland Newsline television operation will make broadcast-quality video available through http://cns.umd.edu/tv, and CNS students will continue blogging the news and feeding headlines and updates through Twitter. You can find us at www.twitter.com by searching for "CNSmd."

Here are brief biographical sketches of the student reporters who will be filing stories from Washington and Annapolis for our wire service subscribers this semester:

ANNAPOLIS, Spring 2010:

JENNIFER HLAD, 29, is a graduate student at the University of Maryland covering the Chesapeake Bay, agriculture and related issues. She received her bachelor of arts in journalism from the University of Georgia and has worked as a reporter for the Carolina Morning News of Bluffton, S.C., the Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald, The (Camp Lejeune, N.C.) Globe and The (Jacksonville, N.C.) Daily News. Hlad also worked as a producer and online editor for WECT-TV in Wilmington, N.C., and as an intern for The (Annapolis) Capital and American Journalism Review. She also has freelanced for The (Wilmington, N.C.) Star-News. She can be reached at environment-ann@jmail.umd.edu.

BRADY HOLT, 20, is a junior journalism major at the University of Maryland covering the budget, transportation issues and BRAC. He has covered local issues in College Park for The Diamondback and in Northwest Washington for The Northwest Current, and blogs about the automotive world for Examiner.com. He can be reached at traffic-ann@jmail.umd.edu.

ADAM KERLIN, 20, is a sophomore journalism major at the University of Maryland covering business and the Chesapeake Bay. He has covered unemployment and nonprofits as a freelance and general assignment reporter for The Garden Island newspaper in Kauai, Hawaii. He can be reached at business-ann@jmail.umd.edu.

DANIEL LEADERMAN, 27, is a graduate student in journalism at the University of Maryland and covers politics and education. He received his undergraduate degree in English from Kenyon College in Ohio and has written for The Washington Times, The Prince George's Sentinel and the Takoma Voice. He can be reached at politics-ann@jmail.umd.edu or schools-ann@jmail.umd.edu.

RACHEL LEVEN, 21, is a senior journalism major at the University of Maryland covering social services and health. This fall she worked at the Huffington Post Investigative Fund as an editorial intern. She has also worked at TickletheWire.com as a reporting intern and freelanced at multiple campus publications. In addition to journalism experience, she was a research development intern at the nonprofit Fred Hollows Foundation (United Kingdom) last spring. She can be reached at welfare-ann@jmail.umd.edu or health-ann@jmail.umd.edu.

SHAUNA MILLER, 31, is a graduate student at the University of Maryland covering justice and issues related to marginalized communities. Before joining Capital News Service, she worked for five years as an arts writer and editor at the Washington City Paper and has also written for The Atlantic.com, Slate's Double X, NPR.org, The Onion A.V. Club and The Washington Post Express. This summer, she wrote about race and the census as a News21 Carnegie-Knight Fellow. She is a co-founder of Girls Rock D.C., a nonprofit music summer camp for girls ages 8-18. She can be reached at justice-ann@jmail.umd.edu.

WASHINGTON, Spring 2010

MORGAN GIBSON, 19, is a sophomore print journalism major at the University of Maryland, College Park covering the Chesapeake Bay and other environmental issues for the Capital News Service. Gibson has written for the Takoma Voice and the Hyattsville Life & Times and is a section editor for the university's Unwind! Magazine. She can be reached at enivornment-dc@jmail.umd.edu.

ANDREW KATZ, 22, is a senior print journalism major at the University of Maryland, College Park covering education. Katz interned with the Special Sections department of McClatchy-Tribune Information Services in Washington, D.C. during the fall of 2009. He can be reached at schools-dc@jmail.umd.edu.

TIFFANY MARCH, 23, is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park covering business and the economy. She has an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has interned for the Prince George's County Gazette, and freelanced for The Washington Examiner, Takoma Voice and Prince George's Sentinel. She can be reached at business-dc@jmail.umd.edu.

GRAHAM MOOMAW, 24, is a journalism graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park who will cover politics, the Maryland congressional delegation, and the re-election campaigns of Reps. Frank Kratovil and Steny Hoyer. He has worked as a freelancer for the Prince George's Sentinel and as an intern at The Washington Independent. He can be reached at politics-dc@jmail.umd.edu.

DIANA NGUYEN, 22, is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park who will cover the census and immigration. She has an undergraduate degree in Literary Journalism from the University of California, Irvine. She has interned for magazines including Ocean, Parenting OC, Riviera, and USA WEEKEND, and freelanced for the Orange County Register and Montgomery County Sentinel. She can be reached at census-dc@jmail.umd.edu.