Gregory A. Borchard is a professor of mass communication and journalism at UNLV. He authored Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley and coauthored Journalism in the Civil War Era and Lincoln Mediated: The President and the Press through Nineteenth-Century Media. Dr. Borchard earned a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Florida in 2003.

Denitsa H. Yotova received her Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Maryland in 2023, and her master's and bachelor's degrees in Journalism and Media Studies from UNLV. Dr. Yotova heads online classes in media for both the University of Maryland and UNLV. Her research focuses on news photography, media history, and mass communication theory.