Ron Bennett is the chairman of the department of communication at Ricks College, a private church-affiliated junior college in Rexburg, Idaho. He is also the faculty adviser for the college's award-winning weekly newspaper, the Scroll. He worked as an editor for the Idaho Falls (Idaho) Post-Register and the Reno Gazette Journal prior to entering education on the high school, then college, level. While a high school adviser, Mr. Bennett guided students to produce quality publications, which won a number of Pacemaker Awards from the National Scholastic Press Association and the Gold Crown from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. He was named as a Distinguished Adviser from the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, and helped start the Intensive Journalistic Writing program in 1988 at Marquette University. He is the co-founder of Bennett Communications, which publishes Scholastic News Service and Yearbook Builder. Mr. Bennett has earned several honors for his teaching, including the Idaho Journalism Teacher of the Year. He has 25 years of professional journalism and media advising experience.

Xian Ke served as the technology coordinator of this Web site. She recently graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, where she took Advanced Placement Journalism under Ms. Carol Lange and was Editor-in-Chief and Layout Editor of the school newsletter. A National Merit Finalist and Scholarship Winner, she is also an AP Scholar with Honor and is listed in the 1998-1999 Who's Who Among American High School Students. She has participated in the ThinkQuest program for three years, and in 1998 was a finalist for the project "Energy Matters." She currently attends the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

One of the 15 teachers who developed an intensive journalistic writing approach to teaching advanced placement composition, Carol Lange has participated in all but three of the 17 IJW institutes since 1988. The 1991 DJNF National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year, Lange has advised 25 magazines and 13 yearbooks which have received NSPA All American, Pacemaker, and Hall of Fame, CSPA gold and silver crowns, SIPA All Southern and NCTE Highest Award recognition. She also has served as the secretary, newsletter editor, and state and regional director of the JEA. In her 30 years as a teacher, she has taught English 9, 11 and 12 and Photojournalism. In 1999 she was a finalist for Fairfax County (Va.) Public Schools Teacher of the Year.

Diane R. Weber, Ph.D. teaches at Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School in Birmingham, Alabama. For nineteen years she has been teaching Advanced Placement or IB English and advising school newspapers and literary magazines. She is a Certified Journalism Educator and was one of the national pilot teachers for Intensive Journalism Writing in 1988. Her student literary magazine, Counterpane, has won several state and national awards.