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Nick Gillespie, Reason Magazine

Description: Nick Gillespie is editor in chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com Gillespie served as Reason magazine's editor in chief from 2000 to 2008. In 1996, Gillespie received his Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He also holds an M.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing from Temple University and a B.A. in English and Psychology from Rutgers University.

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L. Gordon Crovitz, The Wall Street Journal

Description: Louis Gordon Crovitz is a global media executive and advisor to media and technology companies. He is a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal who also served as executive vice-president of Dow Jones and launched the company's Consumer Media Group, which under his leadership integrated the global print, online, digital, TV and other editions of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron's across news, advertising, marketing and other functions. He stepped down from those positions in December 2007, when News Corp. completed its acquisition of Dow Jones. He writes a weekly column in The Wall Street Journal, titled "Information Age." Since leaving Dow Jones, he has become a director and advisor to several companies, including technology-based media companies. He is a member of the board of directors of ProQuest and Blurb. In addition, he is on the board of advisors of several early-stage companies, including SocialMedian, UpCompany, Halogen Guides, YouNoodle, CEOExpress and Clickability. He is an investor in betaworks, a New York incubator for startups, and in Silicon Alley Media. He has also advised private equity firms on the acquisition of information and media companies. While at Dow Jones, he led the redesign of The Wall Street Journal in January 2007, repositioning the print edition to focus on "what the news means," with the web edition addressing "what's happening right now," with the aim of rethinking what a newspaper should be in the Digital Age. He turned around the financial performance of the Journal to become strongly profitable after earlier losing money. He also led the creation of the online news service Factiva, which he chaired for several years, and initiated the acquisition of publicly traded MarketWatch as well as specialist services Private Equity Analyst, VentureOne and VentureWire, London-based news franchise eFinancial News and Frankfurt-based newswire VWD. He oversaw the growth of The Wall Street Journal Online to the world's largest paid subscription news web site, with over one million paying subscribers at the end of 2007. Earlier in his career at Dow Jones, he served as the corporate vice president for planning and strategy; in 1998, he helped sell the Telerate division and helped craft a three-year plan for the company focused on growing Internet revenues. He was editor and publisher of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong, doubling revenues, and at age 22 years, was founding editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago. He received a law degree from Yale Law School, previously earning a law degree as a Rhodes Scholar from Wadham College of Oxford University. He is married to Minky Worden, media director for Human Rights Watch. They have two sons. He was previously married to Yale law professor (now Harvard law professor) Anne Alstott.

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8.8

Chris Cillizza, Washington Post

Description: Chris Cillizza comes to Washingtonpost.com from Roll Call newspaper, a Washington, D.C., publication covering Congress. During his four years at the paper, he reported on campaign politics from the presidential to the congressional level, finishing his time at Roll Call as the paper's White House correspondent. Prior to joining Roll Call in June 2001, Chris covered governor's races and southern House races at the Cook Political Report and wrote a column on politics for Congress Daily. His freelance work has appeared in a variety of publications including the Atlantic Monthly, Washingtonian and Slate. He has also been a guest on CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC.

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8.8

Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic

Description: Marc is an associate editor at the Atlantic, where he curates its influential political channel and contributes to the magazine. He is also a contributing editor to National Journal. In late 2007, he was named chief political consultant to CBS News. Marc spent a year and a half at the Hotline, where he was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He was a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note.� He's a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

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8.5

Jake Tapper, ABC News

Description: Jake Tapper is ABC News' Senior White House Correspondent based in the network's Washington bureau. He writes about politics and popular culture and covers a range of national stories. He began his journalism career as a senior writer for "Washington City Paper" and won a Society of Professional Journalists award for his work there. Tapper is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College.

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8.3

Gail Collins, The New York Times

Description: Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, as Gail Gleason, Collins has a degree in journalism from Marquette University and an M.A. in government from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to The New York Times, Collins wrote for the New York Daily News, Newsday, Connecticut Business Journal, United Press International, and the Associated Press in New York City. Collins also founded the Connecticut State News Bureau which operated from 1972 to 1977 and provided coverage of the state capital and Connecticut politics. When it was sold, the company served more than thirty weekly and daily newspaper clients. Gail Collins was the Editorial Page Editor of The New York Times from 2001 to January 1, 2007. She was the first female Editorial Page Editor at the Times. On October 12, 2006, she announced that she would step down as Editorial Page Editor, effective at the end of that year. Collins took six months off to write a book, and returned to the Times to reprise her role as columnist in July 2007. Her column presently runs every Thursday and Saturday. Beyond her work as a journalist, Collins has published several books; Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics, America's Woman: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines, and The Millennium Book which she co-authored with her husband Dan Collins. She was also a journalism instructor at Southern Connecticut State University.

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7.9

Frank Rich, The New York Times

Description: Frank Rich is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. His weekly 1,500-word essay helped inaugurate the expanded opinion pages that the paper introduced in the Sunday Week in Review section in April 2005. Mr. Rich started as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page in January 1994. He first began writing his longer-form essays for the Op-Ed page in 1999, and from 1999 to 2003 was also a senior writer for The New York Times Magazine, a dual title that was a first for The Times. Before writing his column, Mr. Rich served as The Times�s chief drama critic beginning in 1980, the year he joined The Times.

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Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic

Description: Andrew Sullivan writes for The Atlantic and The Daily Dish.

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Sara K Smith, Wonkette

Description: Sarah K Smith is the associate editor of Wonkette, and a regular contributer to the blog.

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7.6

David Brooks, The New York Times

Description: David Brooks is a political and cultural commentator. Brooks served as an editorial writer and film reviewer for the Washington Times, a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception, a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, and a commentator on NPR. He is now a columnist for The New York Times and commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Brooks was born into a Jewish family in Toronto and grew up in New York City in Stuyvesant Town. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1983 with a degree in history. He wrote a book of cultural commentary titled Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. Brooks also writes articles and makes television appearances as a commentator on various trends in pop culture, such as internet dating. His newest book is entitled On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense. Before the Iraq War, Brooks argued forcefully on moral grounds for American military intervention, echoing the belief of conservative commentators and political figures that American and British forces would be welcomed as liberators. However, some of his opinion pieces in the spring of 2004 suggested that he had tempered somewhat his earlier optimism about the war. David Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and he taught an undergraduate seminar there in the fall of 2006.

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