T. J. Thomson is an Associate Professor at RMIT University, Australia where he co-leads the News, Technology, and Society Network. He is an expert in visual communication and is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism (2025) and is the co-author of Living with Misinformation A Media Literacy Approach (Routledge, 2026) and Everyday Visual News: Audience Expectations, Engagements, and Meanings (Routledge, 2026).

Ryan J. Thomas is a Professor of Journalism and Media Production and Director of Graduate Studies in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, USA. His teaching and research centre on issues pertaining to the intersections of journalism and democracy, journalism ethics, and the sociology of news production. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Media Ethics and co-editor (with Edson C. Tandoc, Joy Jenkins, and Oscar Westlund) of Critical Incidents in Journalism: Pivotal Moments Reshaping Journalism Around the World (Routledge, 2020).

Hannes Cools is Assistant Professor 'Human Factor in New Technologies' at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also a Fellow at the Digital Democracy Centre (DDC), at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). His research interests include responsible AI, computational journalism, newsroom innovation and news automation. He is also a research affiliate at the Culture, Communication and Technology (CCT) Program of Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA.