Terry L. Rentner, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). She teaches public relations and journalism courses at the undergraduate level, including sport PR, and pedagogy, health communication, public relations, and advertising at the graduate level. She is also co-founder of the Richard Maxwell project, created to foster student participation in sport media and communication activities and events.

David P. Burns, Ph.D., Associate Professor, teaches sports reporting and other advanced journalism courses in Salisbury University's Communication Arts Department. Besides sport communication, his research interests focus on media-politics linkages that impact journalism and the communication industry. Burns serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Middle East Media, Central European Journal of Communication, and AEJMC's Electronic News.