Guy S. Reel, Ph.D. is professor and chair of the Department of Mass Communication in Rock Hill, S.C..  A former newspaper reporter and editor for The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tenn., Reel teaches jurnalism and mass communication history.

He is author of The National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906 (2006), a study of portrayed masculinities in 19th Century tabloids. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio University, his master's from the University of Memphis and hisundergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Nathaniel Frederick II Ph.D. is an associate professor of mass communication and the director of the African American Studies program at Winthrop University.  He teaches courses in media law, media literacy and media entrepreneurship. His research interests include African American mediated cultural production in the twentieth century, civil rights movement activism and oral history. Frederick earned a doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University.

William Schulte, Ph.D. is an associate professor of mass communication at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He has over 11 years of community newspaper experience where his duties included layout and design, infographics, special projects, and copy editing. Schulte’s teaching duties include classes in basic and advanced reporting, multimedia and ethnics. His research includes several peer-reviewed works in social constructionist theory, media history, news worker dynamics and ritual, and pop culture. He is the author of “Social Construction and News Work: Newsworkers, Civic Function, and Resistance in the Changing Media World” (2014), this is an ethnography chronicling three newsrooms struggling in the digital paradigm. He received his doctorate from Ohio University in 2012, and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Ball State University in 2004 and 1994 respectively.