Dr Johan Lidberg is senior lecturer in journalism in the School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies, JAIS, at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His research areas are freedom of information (FOI), media accountability/regulation and journalism ethics. Dr Lidberg's research on FOI functionality laid the foundation for the first FOI Index ranking for international FOI systems. He also made submissions to the Australian media inquiries into journalism standards and media regulation.
Martin Hirst is associate professor in journalism and multimedia at Deakin University in Melbourne. He has a 40+ year engagement with practical and academic radical political economy and has been a scholar in journalism studies for 20 years. He is author and co-author of several books on journalism ethics and new media that engage with the traditions of the political economy of communication. He is widely published in collections on journalism theory and practice. He is a regular contributor to academic journals and media commentary. Dr Hirst's PhD, Grey Collar Journalism: The social relations of news production was completed in 2003.