Lawrence Bartley is the founder and director of News Inside, the print publication of The Marshall Project which is distributed in hundreds of prisons and jails throughout the United States. News Inside is the recipient of the 2020 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media. He is also the host and executive producer of Inside Story, a new video series delivering trustworthy reporting to incarcerated people and the broader public. Lawrence was a member of the team behind The Zo, winner of the 2021 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence and Innovation and recipient of an Emmy nod in the area of News & Documentary. He is also an accomplished public speaker and has provided multimedia content for CNN, PBS, NBC Nightly -News, MSNBC and more.

Jack Stubbs is Vice President of Intelligence at Graphika, where he leads a team that specializes in detecting coordinated disinformation and influence campaigns. Previously he worked at Reuters news agency, reporting from more than 10 countries including Russia and Ukraine before moving to cover cybersecurity with a focus on information operations. Jack’s work has helped expose multiple state-backed efforts to manipulate online conversations, ranging from a global network of Iranian fake media outlets to a Russian hack-and-leak operation targeting the 2019 UK election.

Jessica Dheere is the Director of Ranking Digital Rights. She is the founder, former executive director, and board member of SMEX, the Middle East’s leading digital rights research and advocacy organization. As a 2018–19 research fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, she launched the CYRILLA Collaborative. She is also a member of the 2019-20 class of Technology and Human Rights Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Dheere has presented at the Internet Governance Forum, the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy, RightsCon, and the International Journalism Festival.

Emily Dreyfuss is senior editor, fellow, and co-lead of the Harvard Shorenstein Center News Leaders Summit. She was until 2019 the senior writer at WIRED, covering technology’s impact on society. She was a 2018 Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow in Journalism Innovation at Harvard University, and previously worked at CNET as a senior editor. She cut her teeth in newspapers in Connecticut after graduating from Wesleyan University with a bachelor’s degree in English. Dreyfuss' writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, The Correspondent, Business Insider and other publications.

Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist and author and one of the world's leading experts on online disinformation, fake news, and digital investigations. He is a reporter for ProPublica covering voting, platforms, disinformation, and online manipulation. Craig previously served as media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of digital disinformation and media manipulation. Craig is also the editor of the European Journalism Centre’s Verification Handbook series. These free online books offer world-class guidance on how to verify online content and investigate disinformation and media manipulation.

Jane Lytvynenko is widely recognized as an industry leader in disinformation research and reporting. For the last four years, Jane has been working at BuzzFeed News to investigate and uncover online manipulators looking to dupe regular people. Her work has focused on the rise of conspiracy theories, hyperpartisan news, cryptocurrency scams, and extremism globally. During breaking news situations, Jane brings swift and accessible debunks to global audiences across mediums, including video, print, and social media. Many turn to her to sift truth from falsehoods in times of crisis. Her investigative work has uncovered a secretive extremist organization operating in the US, disinformation network operators who manipulate social media on behalf of state actors, and online hucksters seeking to scam people out of their livelihoods. Jane has also shown how the online world can impact people offline and how politicians frequently profit from the disinformation environment. In 2020, Jane won the prestigious Emerging Excellence award. The Digital Publishing Award jury called her “a global leader in debunking disinformation” and noted her “impact on global media and ability to lead and train others in this important field.” She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Tech and Social Change Project at Shorenstein Center, Harvard University.

Connie Moon Sehat is Researcher at Large for Hacks/Hackers. She directs the NewsQ Initiative and is the Principal Investigator for ARTT (Analysis and Response for Trust Tool). Connie’s work has focused on the intersections of computing and democratic life, whether dissertating in German history, developing International Space Station software, or working on projects like the bibliographic Zotero, the New Orleans Research Collaborative. ELMO (election, human rights, and health monitoring) and most recently as a Senior Fellow for Media, Entertainment and Sport Industries at the World Economic Forum. Previously, she has worked for Global Voices, The Carter Center, Emory University, and The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Amy X. Zhang is an assistant professor at the University of Washington's Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. Previously, she was a 2019-20 postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University's Computer Science Department after completing her Ph.D. at MIT CSAIL in 2019, where she received the George Sprowls Best Ph.D. Thesis Award at MIT in computer science. During her Ph.D., she was an affiliate and 2018-19 Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, a Google Ph.D. Fellow, and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her work has received a best paper award at ACM CSCW, a best paper honorable mention award at ACM CHI, and has been profiled on BBC's Click television program, CBC radio, and featured in articles by ABC News, The Verge, New Scientist, and Poynter. She is a founding member of the Credibility Coalition, a group dedicated to research and standards for information credibility online. She has interned at Microsoft Research and Google Research. She received an M.Phil. in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge on a Gates Fellowship and a B.S. in Computer Science at Rutgers University, where she was captain of the Division I Women's tennis team.

Megan Marrelli is a Canadian journalist and a program manager at Meedan where she is the lead for the journalism collaboration program Pop-Up Newsroom. In her spare time she is a freelance investigative reporter for Type Media Center. Previously, Megan has been a News Associate Producer on Netflix's Peabody award-winning show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, and Digital Editor at the Globe and Mail. She holds a Master of Science from the Columbia Journalism School and lives in New York City.

Cat Ho is currently the Director of Business Development at Meedan. Her previous work experience includes sales strategy and operations at Facebook, as well as banking and management consulting. Cat has an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), an MA in International Studies from The Lauder Institute at UPenn, and a dual BS/BA in Business Administration/Linguistics from University of California, Berkeley. Cat is an academic linguist and polyglot who speaks four languages at a business level: English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese.

Giovanni Zagni is editor-in-chief of Pagella Politica, the main Italian fact-checking website. Previously he worked at the online news websites Il Post and Linkiesta.it.

Alan Rusbridger is editor of Prospect Magazine. Previously he was editor-in-chief of The Guardian from 1995 to 2015 and the Principal of Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford. He also chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and sits on the Facebook Oversight Board.

In 2014 he received the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, the European Press Prize and the Ortega y Gasset Award in Madrid and led the Guardian to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, shared with the Washington Post.

Daniela Pinheiro is the first woman appointed editor-in-chief of a weekly magazine in Brazil. A former JSK Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University and at The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford, she was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news and analysis magazine Época from February 2018 until September 2019. During Pinheiro's tenure, Época was awarded twice in the Best Media of the Year category by Aberje, and Prêmio Colunistas awarded it Best Magazine in the Country. In September 2019, Pinheiro resigned – along with five editors and five columnists— after attacks from President Jair Bolsonaro and his family.

Candice Fortman is the executive director of Outlier Media. She also hosts News Guest, a podcast that explores practical advice from entrepreneurs changing the news business. Candice is a 2021 alumnus of the John S. Knight (JSK) Community Impact Fellowship at Stanford University. In addition, she is an advisor to OpenNews, and sits on the board of Cityside, which operates Oaklandside and Berkeleyside.

Wendi C. Thomas founded MLK50: Justice Through Journalism in 2017 as a one-year project that grew into a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on poverty, power and public policy in Memphis. She is a member of ProPublica’s 2020 Local Reporting Network and was in its 2019 LRN cohort.

Previously, Thomas was metro columnist and assistant managing editor at The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal. She has also worked for The Charlotte Observer, The (Nashville) Tennessean and The Indianapolis Star. Thomas was a 2016 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.