Andrew C. Billings is the Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting, Associate Dean for Faculty, and Co-Director of the Beyond Sports Initiative at the University of Alabama, USA. With over 250 journal articles and book chapters and 24 different authored or edited book projects, he is the most published sports communication scholar in the world. He is co-editor of the journal Communication & Sport and has been interviewed over 700 times from media outlets ranging from the New York Times to ESPN to the Associated Press.

Marie Hardin is Dean of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. She chairs the committee for the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and is on steering committees of the Alliance of Schools and Colleges of Communication and Journalism, and the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Hardin's research is focused on issues of diversity, ethics and professionalism in sports journalism. In 2013, the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication named her a distinguished alumni scholar.