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Rachel Sklar is the Media & Special Projects Editor for the Huffington Post and is the editor of the site's Eat The Press page. She has contributed to The New York Times, The New York Post, The Village Voice, Glamour, New York Magazine, The Financial Times and numerous publications in her northern homeland of Canada, and is a frequent guest on MSNBC's Scarborough Country, as well as occasional turns on other programs and networks. She is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity, for HarperCollins and is the author of A Stroke of Luck: Life, Crisis and Rebirth of a Stroke Survivor (with Howard Rocket, Canada: 1998). She was previously the editor of FishbowlNY, a New York-based media industry blog, and currently posts random musings at her new blog, Tomatoes Are Delicious (because, really, they are). She was formerly a corporate lawyer in New York and Stockholm, where she never learned to like herring.


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Before taking a major pay cut to work in the publishing industry, Glynnis MacNicol was for many years a waitress in Greenwich Village. She has also worked as a photographer and video editor for former WB artist Lizzie West, and contributed to the New York Times, The Black Table, and a number of publications North of the Border, from where she originally hales.


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Lloyd Grove has enjoyed a long and varied career in journalism. His column, World According To..., in which he interviews the nation's business leaders, appears every other week on Portfolio.com, the Web site of Conde Nast Portfolio. He's also a regular contributor to New York Magazine. He wrote a widely read and newsmaking gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects for the Style and National sections. He received a B.A. from Yale and worked for the Kansas City Times, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, and the Dallas Morning News before joining the Post. He also has written Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar, as well as for the late, lamented George and Talk.


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Raymond Leon Roker is a media company founder and publishes URB magazine and URB.com. The Los Angeles based URB launched in 1990 and reaches progressive urban hipsters and music aficionados nationwide.