Martin Löffelholz is head of the International Crisis Communication Research Group at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany. He has held several guest professorships in non¿Western countries, including the Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta in Indonesia and the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. From 2012 to 2015, he was President of the Swiss German University in Jakarta, Indonesia. In his more than 300 scientific publications, including 18 books, Prof. Löffelholz deals with journalism, war and crisis communication, political communication, organizational communication as well as intercultural and international aspects. 

Liane Rothenberger is a professor of media and the public with a specialization in migration at the School of Journalism, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. She has published her work in journals such as Communication Theory and the International Journal of Communication. Her stays abroad have taken her to the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), Université de Haute¿Alsace in Mulhouse, Université Lumière 2 in Lyon, and the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada.

David H. Weaver was on the faculty of the School of Journalism at Indiana University from 1974 to 2011, teaching mainly research methods and political communication to graduate students. He has published 14 books and more than 100 articles on journalists, journalism, and the agenda-setting role of news in politics and public affairs.  He has been a visiting professor at the City University of Hong Kong, the National Chengchi University in Taiwan, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, LM University in Munich, Germany, and the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.