Matthew Ricketson is an academic and journalist. Presently the professor of communication at Deakin University, he was previously inaugural journalism professor at the University of Canberra between 2009 and 2017. He has also run the journalism program at RMIT for 11 years. He worked on staff at The Australian and Time Australia magazine.

Andrew Dodd has been a journalist for over twenty-five years, working in radio, TV, print and on-line. He has worked with ABC radio and television, Radio Netherlands and numerous other publications. He was a media and business writer with The Australian and a broadcaster with ABC Radio National, where he presented many of the network's programs and founded the Media Report. He was also a media writer for crikey.com.au.