William S. Solomon is associate professor of journalism and mass media at Rutgers University. He writes on media history, newsroom labor studies, and sociology of news. Solomon received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, and has worked as an editor at the Providence Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Oakland Tribune.

Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1930-1935, and has published numerous scholarly articles. McChesney received a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Washington.