• Jody Calendar: Founder of Calendar Communications, LLC, a firm specializing in motivational speaking and customized transitional change models to help news organizations and companies navigate the myriad of challenges caused by a changing landscape.
• Jim Detjen: Director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism.
• Peter Dykstra: Publisher of Environmental Health News and The Daily Climate, websites that publish original work on science, health and environment and aggregate over 200 news stories each day.
• Tom Herman: Taught a seminar on business news coverage at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and at Yale College in the fall of 2010.
• Marguerite Holloway: Director of Science and Environmental Journalism and an assistant professor.
• Elizabeth Kolbert: Has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. Her series on global warming, “The Climate of Man,” appeared in The New Yorker in the spring of 2005.
•Bill McKibben: The author of a dozen books about the environment, including “The End of Nature,” which was the first book for a general audience about global warming.
• Don J. Melnick: The Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology at Columbia University and executive director for the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC) at Columbia.
• John G. H. Oakes: The son of John B. Oakes and co-founder of OR Books (www.orbooks.com), an alternative publishing company that embraces e-books and other new technologies.
• Judy Pasternak: A non-fiction writer who focuses often on environmental issues.
• David Ropeik: Consultant and speaker on risk communication and risk perception to government, business, trade associations, consumer groups, and educational institutions.
• Jonathan Weiner: An award-winning science writer.