John Downey: Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies, Loughborough University. Co-editor (with Jim McGuigan)
Technocities (1998).
David Hesmondhalgh: Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, The Open University; author of The Cultural Industries (2002), co-editor (with Keith Negus), Popular Music Studies (2002); (with Georgina Born), Western Music and its Others (2000).
Jason Toynbee: Lecturer in Media Studies, The Open University; author of Making Popular Music (2000); co-editor, with Andy Bennett and Barry Shank, of The Popular Music Reader (2005).
Gillian Ursell: Recently retired as Director of the Centre for Journalism at Trinity and All Saints College, an affiliate of the University of Leeds; council member of the UK Broadcast Journalism Training Council.