Nancy Torner's journalism background spans more than 20 years, including 10 months with the Chicago Lawyer monthly magazine in Chicago; 18 months in the Balkans for United Press International; a year in Bosnia-Herzegovina on a Knight International Press Fellowship training Bosnian journalists; four years in the United Kingdom bureau of the European Stars and Stripes; 11 years with The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and three years with various weekly newspapers in the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wis.