Benjamin R. Warner is Professor of Communication and Director of the Political Communication Institute at the University of Missouri, USA. Along with Dianne G. Bystrom, Mitchell S. McKinney, and Mary C. Banwart, he is a co-editor of Democracy Disrupted: Communication in the Volatile 2020 Presidential Election (Bloomsbury, 2022) and An Unprecedented Election: Media, Communication, and the Electorate in the 2016 Campaign (2018). His research focuses on the polarizing effects of partisan media, new media echo-chambers, political campaigns, and presidential debates.

Dianne G. Bystrom is Director Emerita of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University, USA. Her research focuses on the role of gender in political campaigns, primarily the self-presentation of female and male political candidates in their television ads and their coverage by the media.

Mitchell S. McKinney is Professor of Communication and Dean of the Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, University of Akron, USA. He is a leading scholar of presidential debates, having served as an adviser to the U.S. Commission on Presidential Debates where his work was instrumental in developing the Town Hall debate format.

Mary Christine Banwart is Professor of Communication Studies and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of Kansas, USA. Her research focuses on political campaign communication and the role of gender in political campaigns.