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David Cromwell is an oceanographer, green activist and writer. He worked for Shell in the Netherlands for five years before returning to the UK. He is author of Private Planet (Jon Carpenter, 2001) and co-editor of MediaLens

Steve Dorril, writer on intelligence, author of Mi6 : Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (2002), MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations (2000), The Silent Conspiracy : Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s (1994), and Smear! : Wilson and the Secret State (with Robin Ramsay 1991)

Bob Franklin is an academic who has written and published widely about journalism and news media with a particular focus on political journalism and news management by political parties, government and the state. He co-edits Journalism Studies and his publications include Packaging Politics: Political Communication in Britain’s Media Democracy (2004); Television Policy: A Reader (2002); Social Policy, The Media and Misrepresentation (1999); Making the Local News: Local Journalism in Context (With David Murphy) (1998) and Tough on Soundbites, Tough on the Causes of Soundbites: New Labour and News Management (1998). www.shef.ac.uk

Michael Gillard is an award-winning journalist. He is joint author of Untouchables - Dirty Cops, Bent Justice and Racism in Scotland Yard (2004), published by Mainstream Publishing.
 
Olivier Hoedeman is a member of Corporate Europe Observatory, and co-author of Europe Inc. Regional & Global Restructuring and the Rise of Corporate Power (2000). Corporate Europe Observatory

Nicholas Jones, former BBC correspondent, author of numerous books and articles on Spin, including Strikes and the Media (1986), Election '92 (1992), Soundbites and Spin Doctors (1995), Campaign 1997 (1997) Sultans of Spin (1999) and Control Freaks (2001)

Caroline Lucas is Britain's first Green MP for Brighton Pavilions. Before that she was the Green Party Member of the European Parliament for the South East of England Region. Caroline has written extensively on trade issues, is an acknowledged expert on globalisation and is an Advisory Board Member of the ‘Protect the Local, Globally’ think-tank (coordinator, Colin Hines). With a long history of involvement with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, she was an active member of the Snowball Campaign against the US bases in the UK. Her publications include Green Alternatives to Globalisation: a manifesto (2004), Pluto Books, co-authored with Mike Woodin;  Global Warming, Local Warning: A study of the likely impacts of climate change upon South East England (2004);  Towards a GM free Europe: Halting the spread of GMOs in Europe (2003). carolinelucasmep.org.uk

Robert McChesney, US media academic, editor of Monthly Review and author and editor of several books on the media and democracy including Our Media, Not Theirs (with John Nichols, 2002), Rich Media, Poor Democracy (2000), It’s the Media Stupid (with John Nichols 2000), The Global Media (with Ed Herman 1997), Capitalism and the Information Age (with Ellen Meiksins and John Bellamy 1998) Corporate Media and the threat to Democracy (1997). robertmcchesney.com

George Monbiot is the author of the best selling books The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain; as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man’s Land. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. www.monbiot.com

John Pilger, award winning author and film-maker, contributor to (among many others) The Guardian, The Mirror, The New Stateman, The Independent. Author of several books including: Distant Voices (1992 and 1994), Hidden Agendas (1998) The New Rulers of the World (2002) and Tell Me No Lies: Investigative journalism and its triumphs (2004) . His filmography includes Stealing a Nation (2004), The New Rulers Of The World (2001), Paying The Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000), Breaking the Mirror - The Murdoch Effect (1997), Flying the Flag, Arming the World (1994), War by Other Means (1992), Burp! Pepsi v Coke in The Ice Cold War (1984), The Truth Game (1983), Frontline: In Search of Truth in Wartime (1982) pilger.carlton.com

Danny Schechter, author, blogger and filmmaker. He is Executive Editor of Media Channel mediachannel.org and author of the Newsdissector media blog newsdissector. His latest film is WMD – Weapons of Mass Deception (2004) (excerpts can be viewed at wmdthefilm )

Nancy Snow is an expert on propaganda and international relations. She is the author of Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World ( 2002), Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9/11 (2004),. She is editor (with Yahya Kamalipour) of War, Media and Propaganda: A Global Perspective (2004). snowmachine.com

Hilary Wainwright is the editor of Red Pepper, fellow of the International Labour Studies Centre at University of Manchester, and the Centre for Global Governance at the London School of Economics. Her current work is focused on what happens to "People Power" or popular resistance in the face of corporate-driven globalisation. Her recent work includes Change the World by Transforming Power -Including State Power! Transnational Institute, October 2004, Reclaim the State. Adventures in Popular Democracy (Verso/TNI, 2003); Arguments for a New Left. Answering the Free Market Right (Blackwell 1993). Hilary was founding member of Charter 88, the movement to democratise Britain's feudal state, and convenor of the economic democracy workshop of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly. She is also on the editorial board of the UK political think tank, The Catalyst Trust and she founded the Popular Planning Unit of the Greater London Council during the Thatcher years. redpepper.org.uk

Granville Williams is a UK academic who specialises in issues of media ownership. He is a member of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) and Editor of Free Press. He is author of Media Ownership and Democracy (2003) and Britain’s Media: How they are related (1994) www.cpbf.org.uk
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