Kristy Hess Editor & Author

Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. is Senior Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on issues of intersections of journalism, geography, and power, and appears in Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, and Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. He is editor of The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy (Routledge, 2018).

Kristy Hess is an Associate Professor in Communication at Deakin University, Australia. She studies journalism (especially at the local level) and its relationship to social connection and place-making, often through a lens of media power. Her work appears in leading international journalism and media journals, she is the author of two monographs, and she is the Associate Editor of Digital Journalism.