Mark Vincent Escaler is the CFJ Director for e-Learning and the Associate Chair of the Department of Communication at the Ateneo de Manila University. An educator and film critic, he teaches communication theory, media studies, new media and film. He holds a Master's degree in philosophy and media studies from New York University.

Glenda Gloria has worked as a reporter at the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Asahi Shimbun-Manila bureau and was news editor of the Manila Times from 1995-99. She is presently associate editor of the newsmagazine Newsbreak. She has co-authored books and written various newspaper columns and editorials about military, rebel movements and politics in general. She holds a Master's degree in Political Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science. Ms. Gloria is also a fellow at the Ateneo Center for Social Policy and Public Affairs and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and a lecturer at the Ateneo Department of Communication.

Chay Florentin Hofileña is the CFJ Director for Training, Director of the M.A. Journalism program, and a faculty member of the Department of Communication. She has worked with various newspapers including the Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Manila Times, and was Associate Editor of the newsmagazine Newsbreak. She has also been engaged in policy advocacy projects of the Ateneo Center for Social Policy. She obtained her MS in Journalism from Columbia University in New York.

Fr. Rene B. Javellana is the director of the Fine Arts Program at the School of Humanities of the Ateneo de Manila University. His scholarly and popular works have been published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press and the University of Toronto Press. He also works for the conservation of heritage and has been involved with the Heritage Conservation Society of Manila, the Cebu Heritage Conservation Council, and the Negros Foundation. He was the recipient of the Nippon Foundation's Asian Public Intellectual Fellowship for the years 2001-2002. He completed his doctoral studies in the interdisciplinary fields of Religion and the Arts at the Pacific School of Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.

Elliot King, Ph.D. is an associate professor of communications at Loyola College in Maryland where he teaches courses in journalism, Web development, popular culture, and free speech. He is the founder of the Advanced Media Lab of Loyola College, a research and development incubator for online media. Dr. King has written six books including "The Online Journalist" (with Randy Reddick), the first book to look at the impact of the Internet on journalism. He has a Ph.D. in media sociology from the University of California, San Diego and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.

Barry Lowe, Ph. D. is Senior Lecturer at the London College of Music and Media, Thames Valley University, London, and Director of the Centre for Commonwealth Journalism of the same university. From June 95 - June 2000 he was Associate Professor in journalism at the English Department of the City University of Hong Kong where he introduced pioneering approaches to communication education. His extensive experience as a journalist includes three years as a reporter covering Southeast Asia for The Australian. He has been involved in training programs in many parts of the world including Asia and Eastern Europe.

Malou Mangahas was a Neiman fellow at Harvard University and was former editor in chief of The Manila Times. From 2000-2001 she worked with Reuters news agency. Before joining the Times, Malou was training director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ). PCIJ has done groundbreaking work in investigative journalism in the Philippines. She was also a lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication where she obtained her journalism degree.

Atty. Pablito Perez is an instructor at the Department of Communication of the Ateneo de Manila University. He has at least 16 years of teaching experience in the fields of law and philosophy. He is counsel to the Cultural Center of the Philippines, as well as the national organization of performing artists and musicians in the Philippines. He obtained a Masters in Law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, where he undertook an extensive study of broadcast regulations in the US. At present, he is senior and co-managing partner of Bu–ag, Kapunan, Migallos & Perez Law offices, a general law practice firm in the Philippines.

Randolph Lee Reddick, Ph.D. is the Journalism chair of the School of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University. He has worked with a variety of news enterprises including FACSNET, an online information service for journalists, and NetPresence.US, a group of web development, hosting and consulting companies. In 2001, he received the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Presidential Citation for his contributions to the organization. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mass Communication, with a minor in Business Administration from Ohio University.

Ramon C. Sunico is the manager of Cacho Publishing House Inc., in Manila. He also works as a book designer and editor, and as a part-time instructor at the Ateneo de Manila University. In 1988 he received the illustrious Palanca Memorial Literary Award for Poetry, and in 1990 he received two more awards for his work in Children's Literature. He has published two childrenÍs books entitled "Ang Nawawalang Araw" and "Two Friends, One World." His books on poetry include "Bruise: A 2-Tongue Job," and "The Secret of Graphite: Poems in 2 Tongues." He has received two Masters degrees, one an M.A. in the History of Ideas from the University of Sussex, and the other an M.A. in Philosophy from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Chin Wong is a lecturer in Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University Communication Department, and has been a working journalist since 1979, starting as a reporter for Business Day, Southeast Asia's first daily business newspaper. In 1991, he helped found Computerworld Philippines and worked as its editor until his retirement from the company in 2002. In that year, he was named IT Journalist of the Year at the Philippine ICT Journalism Awards. Since then, he has served as copy editor and technology editor for the Manila Times and is currently a deskman and columnist at Manila Standard.

He holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Western Ontario (1981) where he earned the Hugh Bremner Award as outstanding broadcast journalism student. He earned his undergraduate degree also in journalism from the University of the Philippines (1979) where he graduated cum laude.