Ben Bagdikian is the winner of almost every top prize in American journalism, including the Pulitzer. He is Professor and former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is one of the most respected media critics in the country and has been a reporter and editor for more than thirty years. The New York Times has called him “an exemplar to a generation of journalists.” His landmark book “The Media Monopoly” is now in its fifth edition.

Robert W. McChesney is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. McChesney is the President and co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization. McChesney also hosts the Media Mattersweekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on WILL-AM radio.

McChesney has written or edited eleven books, including The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century, published in 2004 by Monthly Review Press; and, with Ben Scott, he has edited a book published by the New Press in 2004 titled: Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism. With John Bellamy Foster, McChesney is writing Media and Empire: The United States and Global Communication, to be published by New Press in 2006.