Andrew Duffy, Rich Ling, Nuri Kim and Edson Tandoc, Jr. came together on a three-year research project into news as it is created, distributed and consumed on smartphones. They are colleagues at the Wee Kim Wee School at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, specialising variously in news journalism, mobile communications technology, political communication, and their impact in society.
Oscar Westlund is professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway with a specialisation in journalism, media management and news media consumption for proprietary news media platforms. He was involved in the project that led to this book as a visiting scholar, and as editor of Digital Journalism in which these chapters originally appeared.