Nicole Dahmen is Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, USA. She has gained an international reputation for her scholarship, which falls into three key areas, sometimes standing alone but more frequently intersecting: visual journalism, ethics, and contextual reporting.

T.J. Thomson is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at RMIT University, Australia. His research is united by its focus on visual communication. He is the author of To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions, and Identities Behind News Images (2019), winner of the NCA's Diane S. Hope Book of the Year award.