Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is an Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication and affiliated faculty at the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She is also an affiliated fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. Her research looks at how organizations adapt and respond to technology and how the business of journalism is changing the news media industry and its role. She is the author of Social Media at BBC News and her research has been published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media & Society, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Symbolic Interaction, Digital Journalism and Nieman Journalism Lab, and Columbia Journalism Review, among others. She is a past fellow at the Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism and OsloMet Digital Journalism fellow.

Nikki Usher is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the College of Media, with affiliate appointments in Communication and Political Science. Her research looks at the connections between elite news media, politics, and technology through the lens of production studies. She is the author of Making News at The New York Times, Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code, and News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism. She is a past fellow at the Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism and an academic policy fellow with the Open Markets Institute.

Valérie Bélair- Gagnon, University of Minnesota
Jan Lauren Boyles, Iowa State University
Matt Carlson, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Chase Davis, The Star Tribune
Stephanie Edgerly, Northwestern University
Jesse Holcomb, Calvin College
Damon Kiesow, University of Missouri School of Journalism
Danielle K. Kilgo, University of Minnesota
Yee Man Margaret Ng, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Rachel R. Mourão, Michigan State University
Lindsay Palmer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mark Poepsel, Southern Illinois University
Jane Yeahin Pyo, University of Illinois
Soo Young Shin, Michigan State University
Benjamin Toff, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Melissa Tully, University of Iowa
Nikki Usher, University of Illinois
Matthew S. Weber, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Derek Willis, ProPublica

"An outstanding collection of cutting-edge research on journalism. This is a must-read for any contemporary course in Journalism Studies. A thought-provoking volume that paves the way to reinventing how we do and study journalism." -- Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

"This collection is spot on. Belair-Gagnon and Usher address the need and opportunity for scholars to take on crucial research questions to help inform, re-imagine, and set the agenda for a sustainable future for independent journalism, informed communities, and our democracy." -- Jennifer Preston, former Vice President, Journalism, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

"This edited collection is a gem. Parsing the different longstanding traditions for doing journalism research, including the oftforgotten legacy of the US Midwest, it raises important questions about what kinds of research will matter in the future. In tracing how journalism research connects via topic, scholarship, and practice, it offers a creative and thoughtful engagement with what journalism research has been in the past and what it could be moving forward." -- Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania