Don Campbell currently a lecturer and freelance writer, has over 35 years journalistic experience as a reporter, editor, political analyst, author, educator, researcher, syndicate manager and newsroom consultant. He served as Gannett News Service managing editor, as Washington editor of USA Today, and as Gannett’s White House correspondent, national political writer, political editor and congressional correspondent.

Wendell Cochran is an associate professor and journalism division director at American University in Washington, D.C. He has over 25 years in daily newspaper journalism, including experience as a Gannett regional and national correspondent based in Washington.