Johnny Edwards

• Interests: Government transparency, government accountability, "the poor and the beaten down, livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town ... the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, but is there because he's a victim of the times"
• Books: East of Eden, The Stories of Erskine Caldwell, Murder in Coweta County, Walden and Civil Disobedience, Praying for Sheetrock, The Fountainhead, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72, Blood Meridian, The Violent Bear It Away, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, Lord of the Flies, Night Shift, The Dead Zone, Say It Loud!, Helter Skelter, In Cold Blood, A Christmas Carol
• Music: Bob Dylan, James Brown, Funkadelic, The Rolling Stones, Santana, Miles Davis, Public Enemy, Pete Drake, Marvin Gaye, The Grateful Dead, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Jaco Pastorius, Joni Mitchell, The Allman Brothers, Wilco, A Tribe Called Quest, Cream, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Steely Dan, George Harrison, R.E.M.

• Children: daughter, age 9
• Location: Augusta, GA
• Education: University of Georgia, A.B.J., Telecommunications Arts, class of 1996
• Profession: Journalist

Started at the The Chronicle as a night police reporter in 2000, after moving to Augusta from Lynchburg, Va. The following year, joined the Special Projects team. In 2003, covered the invasion of Iraq as an embedded reporter with the Augusta-based 319th Transportation Company. Served as the Society of Professional Journalists' Georgia Sunshine Chair from 2007 to 2009. After Sylvia Cooper retired in 2008, spent a little over a year as the newspaper's city government reporter, writing The City Core both as a weekend print column and as an online blog. This year, joined the newly-formed Public Service team.