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Professor Robert Hackett is Professor of Communication, Simon Fraser
University. He has written extensively on media democratization, and
journalism as political communication. His most recent collaborative books
include Expanding Peace Journalism: Comparative and Critical Approaches
(2011), and Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public
Communication (2006). He is on the editorial advisory board of Journalism
Studies, Journal of Alternative and Community Media, and other academic
journals. He has co-founded several community-oriented media education
and advocacy initiatives, including NewsWatch Canada, OpenMedia.ca, and
Media Democracy Days.
Source: https://www.sfu.ca/communication/people/faculty/hackett.html
Dr. Mitchell Hobbs is Lecturer in Media and Public Relations at the
University of Sydney. His research activities concern political communi-
cation and media power, and his publications are regularly assigned as core
texts at universities in Australia and the United States. Mitchell also pos-
sesses high-level experience in media and public relations. Most notably, he
worked in political public relations for Prime Minister Julia Gillard from
2011 to 2012. In this role, he was responsible for the implementation
of the Hon Julia Gillard’s media and communication activities in her
electorate in Melbourne. Mitchell’s professional experiences and research
activities have given him unique insights into communication power and its
capacity for social and political change.
Source: https://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/profiles/
mitchell.hobbs.php
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and
author of the international bestsellers, This Changes Everything: Capitalism
versus The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000).
In 2017, Klein became Senior Correspondent for The Intercept. She is
also a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and
contributor to the Nation Magazine. Recent articles have also appeared in
The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, the
London Review of Books and Le Monde.