The Media and Democracy Project:

Ron Claiborne - ​Ron Claiborne was a national correspondent for ABC News, covering a range of national and international stories. He was an anchor on "Good Morning America Weekend Edition" from 2004 to 2018. Since then, he has taught broadcast journalism at Columbia University and shares his thoughts in his blog Second Acts.

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Margaret Sullivan - The fifth public editor of The New York Times, a former media columnist for The Washington Post, author of the book Newsroom Confidential, and a former local newspaper executive. She has an inside perspective on the troubling decline of journalism and ideas about how the profession can support democracy in her blog American Crisis.

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Preston Padden - Top network TV executive worked with Disney and who helped Rupert Murdoch create the Fox broadcast network but now leading the charge that Murdoch knowingly allowed Fox News to spread dangerous misinformation.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat - Historian and professor at New York University who is an expert on authoritarianism, propaganda, and democracy protection. She says the United States faces a "democratic emergency" driven by an authoritarian playbook that mirrors historical strongmen like Mussolini in her blog and community Lucid.

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Art Belendiuk - Attorney who initiated MAD's legal actions asking the FCC to deny Fox broadcast licenses by challenging its ownership's "character qualifications" because they knowingly broadcast false and misleading information about the 2020 election.

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Milo Vassallo -  Milo Vassallo, MD/PhD is the Executive Director of MAD. He is a doctor passionate about civic engagement and believes that healthy minds and bodies depend on healthy information diets. His mantras are "If not you, who? If not now, when?" and "Be the change you wish to see."