Diane Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

Steven Barrie-Anthony - Doctoral Student in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
John P. Bartkowski - Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at San Antonio
Annie Blazer - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana
Judith M. Buddenbaum - Professor Emerita in the Department of Journalism and Technical Communication at Colorado State University
Anthea Butler - Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lynn Schofield Clark - Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver
David Copeland - A.J. Fletcher Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Communications at Elon University
Darren Dochuk - Associate Professor of History at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana
Magali do Nascimento Cunha - Professor at the Methodist University of São Paulo in the School of Theology and in the Graduate Program on Social Communication
Carole M. Cusack - Associate Professor in Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney
Marcia Alesan Dawkins - award-winning writer, educator, and syndicated blogger for The Huffington Post, Truthdig, and Transmissions
Jill Dierberg - Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Media and Religion
Denise P. Ferguson - Associate Professor of Mediated Communication and Director of Graduate Studies in Communication at Pepperdine University
Richard Flory - Associate Research Professor of Sociology and Director of Research at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California
John Giggie - Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in History at the University of Alabama
Dalia Hashad - public interest attorney and consultant
Faiza Hirji - Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University
Stewart M. Hoover - Professor of Media Studies and Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Mark Hulsether - Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee
Jane Naomi Iwamura - author of Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture
Karim H. Karim - Professor at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, Canada
Lauri Lebo - award-winning journalist and author of The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America
Kathryn Lofton - Assistant Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at Yale University
Peter Manseau - award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction
Debra L. Mason - Professor of Journalism Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center on Religion & the Professions at the University of Missouri
Sarah M. Pike - Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Chico
Elizabeth Poole - Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Staffordshire University and Award Leader of the MA in Media Management
Jana Riess - Acquisitions Editor at Westminster John Knox Press
Michele Rosenthal - Lecturer at the Department of Communication in the University of Haifa
Nora Rubel - Assistant Professor of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester
Jonathan D. Sarna - Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History and Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University
Philip Seib - Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy and Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is also Director of USC's Center on Public Diplomacy.
Mark Silk - Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College, Hartford
Nick Street - freelance writer and Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles
J. Terry Todd - Associate Professor of American Religious Studies at Drew University
Doug Underwood - Professor of Communication at the University of Washington
Ken Waters - Chair of the Communication Division at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California

"Winston's book will surely, therefore, find a ready place on the academic bookshelf and will draw interest from both students of media and religion, academicians, even journalists and religious clerics." -- Yoel Cohen, Communication Research Trends

A great resource...Winston and her contributors are utterly persuasive in their contention that the currents of the media water are so strong that religion scholars need to be aware of them. --Religion in American History

"This excellent collection fills a large gap in reference works on the interdisciplinary subject matter of religion and the news media in the US. Editor Winston (Annenberg School, USC) is one of the leading figures at the intersection of religion and news media, and the range and depth of coverage she has assembled here is provocative and useful." --CHOICE

"The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media should be an essential reference work in journalism, American studies, media studies, and religious studies- suitable for undergraduates, scholars, and professionals. The volume offers a compendium of analyses, reflective metahistory, and inventive methodological approaches that will be helpful to a broad range of scholars." --The Journal of American History