Chris Cook, of Tortoise Media, explains how the 'slow news' start up eschews breaking news in favour of what's driving the news.

Dr Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of the book, From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11.

Polly Curtis is a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute having previously been editor-in-chief of HuffPost UK, director of media at the British Red Cross, and a correspondent and senior editor at the Guardian.

Shrenik Rao is a broadcaster and entrepreneur and founder of two digital media companies - Dolsun Media and 7 Media Broadcasting Pvt Ltd (7MB). In 2016 he launched a digital version of the Madras Courier, a centuries old news title. He has produced documentaries which have been translated and broadcast around the world. 

Dr Vidya Narayanan is the Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Project which looks at the use of algorithms, automation and computational propaganda in public life.

Lane Greene is the language columnist and an edits The Economist's Espresso daily briefing. He is the author of two books, Talk on the Wild Side (2018) and You Are What You Speak (2011), and won the journalism award from the Linguistic Society of America in 2017.