Mark Leccese is an associate professor of Journalism at Emerson College. He has worked in print and online journalism for 35 years as a reporter, editor, and blogger. For several years, he was the media criticism blogger for
The Boston Globe and WBUR-FM, a National Public Radio affiliate. His work has appeared in the
Columbia Journalism Review,
Quill,
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly,
Commonwealth,
America,
The Boston Globe,
Boston Phoenix,
and
Boston Magazine.
Jerry Lanson is the author/co-author of Writing for Others, Writing for Ourselves; Writing and Reporting the News; and News in a New Century. He currently blogs for the Huffington Post and has posted several hundred blogs over the past five or six years on five different blogs. He was the first chair of the Department of Journalism at Emerson College (1999-2005) and has taught full-time on the faculties of NYU, Boston University, and Syracuse University.