Julia Kennedy Cochran Editor

John Maxwell Hamilton is founding dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at LSU, Baton Rouge. He is the author or coauthor of six other books, most recently Journalism's Roving Eye.

Julia Kennedy Cochran worked as a journalist in New York for the Associated Press, Reuters, and Business Week magazine. She obtained an MBA at Columbia University and worked as a marketing manager at high-tech companies in New York and Seattle.

Tom Curley is president and CEO of the Associated Press.