Joyce Barnathan, president of the International Center for Journalists, has more than 20 years’ experience as an editor and reporter for BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and other publications. She joined BusinessWeek in 1990, and served most recently as Executive Editor – Global Franchise. As Asia Regional Editor, she helped launch the Asia edition, which won prestigious awards for coverage of China’s growth, Asia’s financial crisis, and the turmoil in Indonesia. From 1979 until 1988, she held a number of posts at Newsweek, including Moscow Bureau Chief, Special National Political Correspondent, and State Department Correspondent.

Maureen Fan is based in Beijing for The Washington Post. Fan began her reporting career with the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She has reported for the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the New York Daily News, and the San Jose Mercury News. As New York Bureau Chief for the Mercury News, Fan reported on business, technology, and breaking news, including the Sept. 11 attacks. She also covered postwar Iraq for Knight Ridder Newspapers.

Ron Howell is a writer, foreign correspondent, and blogger from Brooklyn. As a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and Newsday, Howell covered Latin American and the Caribbean. He also covered the first Gulf War and several crises in Haiti, and has written extensively about Cuba. Howell has followed immigrant communities in New York and has taught writing and reporting at several universities.

Sandeep Junnarkar is an associate professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The former New York bureau chief of CNETNews.com, Junnarkar entered online journalism when it was in its infancy. He helped to create online editions of The New York Times, working as breaking news editor, writer, and Web producer. Junnarkar is also founder and editorial director of livesinfocus.org, a multimedia Website that features stories on underreported issues. The site’s inaugural project focuses on the impact of India’s new patent law on the treatment of the country’s HIV and AIDS population. He was elected president of the South Asian Journalists Association in January.

Orville Schell is director of the Asia Society’s Center for U.S.-China Relations and is a former dean of the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. From his days as a student of Far Eastern History at Harvard College through his graduate work in Chinese History at Berkeley, to his latest work on China, Hong Kong, Tibet, and the media, Schell has devoted his professional life to writing about Asia. Author of 14 books–nine about China, including “Virtual Tibet,” “Mandate of Heaven,” and “Discos and Democracy”–Schell has also written widely about Asia and other topics for Wired, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, and other national magazines. Schell has served as correspondent and consultant for several PBS “Frontline” documentaries as well as an Emmy award-winning program on China for CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

John Schidlovsky is the founding director of the International Reporting Project. He created the program in 1998 with the goal of encouraging more international coverage in the U.S. media. Previously he spent four years as the first director of The Freedom Forum’s Asian Center in Hong Kong from 1993 to 1997, monitoring media changes in the transition of Hong Kong to Chinese rule and working with journalists in virtually every country in the Asia-Pacific region. From 1990 to 1993 he was the curator of the Jefferson Fellowships program for journalists at the East-West Center in Honolulu. Schidlovsky was a reporter for nearly 20 years, including 13 years with The Baltimore Sun. He was The Sun’s Beijing bureau chief from 1987 through 1989, and closely covered the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and aftermath. Earlier he served as The Sun’s New Delhi bureau chief and covered events in the Indian subcontinent and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Before joining The Sun in 1977, he was a freelance reporter in Cairo and Beirut, covering the region for NBC, ABC, and Newsday.