Eric Freedman is Director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and Professor of Journalism at Michigan State University, USA. He is the co-editor of Environmental Crises in Central Asia (Routledge, 2015) and Biodiversity, Conservation and Environmental Management in the Great Lakes Basin (Routledge, 2018) and he has won a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.

Sara Shipley Hiles is Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. She is a journalism educator and an award-winning journalist who specializes in environmental and investigative reporting with more than 25 years' experience in the field.

David B. Sachsman holds the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. He is managing editor of Applied Environmental Education and Communication, an international journal, editor of the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism (Routledge, 2020), and author of Environment Reporters in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2010).