Tabe Bergman is Associate Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong- Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. He was a journalist with the Associated Press before he became an academic. He completed his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. His research interests are in global journalism, specifically the coverage of foreign affairs by the Western media.

Jesse Owen Hearns- Branaman is Associate Professor of International Journalism and the Head of the Department of Communication at Beijing Normal University- Hong Kong Baptist University United International College. His research interests include post- structuralism, ideology, critical linguistics, political economy of news, comparative journalism, tourism, and epistemological theory.