William E. Berry is associate chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also is a tenured professor with appointments in the departments of advertising, journalism, Latina/o Studies, and the Institute of Communications Research. His research identitiesfocuses on strategic communication for hurricanes and natural disasters in the Dominican Republic, the impact of new communication technologies on emerging contemporary democracies, and the social psychology of mass media in the representation and construction of AfroLatino identities. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Illinois, Dr. Berry worked for ten years in the communications industry with the Illinois Bell organization and the successor Ameritech/lllinois Corporation, where he was a senior executive. The recipient of numerous awards, he has published in both the consumer and scholarly media and presented original research at national conferences.

Jon Bekken is associate professor of communications at Albright College. He has written extensively on Chicago journalism and the United States press. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is working on an ecological history of Chicago journalism.

Jerry M. Landay, associate professor emeritus in journalism at the University of Illinois, has written extensively on public-broadcasting history and policy, as well as issues involving democracy and the power of electronic media. He taught at the Urbana-Champaign campus for nine years, including a course for students in the Campus Honors program entitled "Issues in Television." Previously, he had a long professional career in broadcast journalism, produced a program series and a documentary for PBS, and served as a news correspondent for ABC and CBS. At ABC, he reported from the White House on the Watergate scandal. At CBS, many of his reports were aired on "Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt."

Elizabeth H. Miller taught twentieth-century world history and post-Civil War American history to eighth graders at the University of Chicago Laboratory School. She also chaired the history department for two years. She earned a bachelor's degree in history at the University of Wisconsin and a master's degree in Chinese history at Northwestern University. Now retired, she lives in Chicago and enjoys exploring the city, taking advantage of its cultural richness and history.

John Nerone received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Notre Dame in 1982 and has taught in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983. His teaching and research focus on the history of the media and of freedom of the press in the United States. His books include Violence against the Press: Policing the Public Sphere in U.S. History (Oxford University Press, 1994) and, with Kevin G. Barnhurst, The Form of News: A History (Guilford, 2001). He is the guest editor of this issue of the Illinois History Teacher.

Howard J. Romanek received an M.A. in history from Northern Illinois University. He taught history at Geneva High School in Geneva, Illinois, from 1969 to 1971, and at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illinois, from 1971 to 2003. He is currently a substitute teacher in the social studies department at Glenbrook South High School, and he also supervises history and social sciences student teachers as a part-time instructional assistant professor \ and university supervisor at Illinois State \ University.

Sara L. Werckle holds a B.S. in education from Rockford College, a M.A. in English from Northern Illinois University, and is a Ph.D. candidate at Northern Illinois University. She teaches at Oregon High School, Oregon, Illinois.

Barry L. Whitten teaches in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Western Illinois University in Macomb. He taught middle level and high school American history in Kansas prior to earning a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in social studies education at Kansas State University. He has special interests in historical inquiry and the American West.

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