Dr. Glenda Cooper is the deputy head of the journalism department and BA programme director at City University of London. She is the author of Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor of Humanitarianism, Communications and Change (Peter Lang, 2015). Prior to City she worked as a staff editor and reporter at The Independent, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and as a correspondent for the BBC News Channel and Radio 4. She was the Laurence Stern Fellow at the Washington Post where she covered 9/11 and was the Guardian Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Paul Davies recently retired after a career of more than 50 years in print, radio and television journalism. He served an apprenticeship with newspapers in the Southport Visitor group in the North West of England and helped launch the commercial radio station Radio City in Liverpool in 1974 but is best known for the 39 years as a senior correspondent with ITN.

His time working for ITN's foreign desk coincided with upheaval in the world and much of it was spent reporting from conflicts particularly in the aftermath of the collapse of the old Soviet empire. His frontline assignments included reporting from the inside of sieges in places like Kabul, Sarajevo , Bucharest and Dubrovnik and were recognised with multiple honours of his own. In 1993 he was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to broadcast journalism.

Alan Rusbridger is the editor of Prospect and the former head of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. During his time as Editor in Chief of the Guardian, from 1995 to 2015, he oversaw the digital transformation of the paper to a world-leading digital news organisation. Investigations into WikiLeaks, tax avoidance, phone hacking and the Snowden revelations won numerous awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service. He is the co-author of the BBC drama, Fields of Gold and wrote the books: Breaking News and News and How to Use it.

Together with Lionel Barber, he co-hosts the podcast Media Confidential on Prospect.