Carla Rodrigues Cardoso holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from NOVA University, Lisbon. She is an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University, Portugal, where she coordinates the MA programme in Journalism and Media Studies and the BA programme in Communication and Journalism. She has studied magazines for over 20 years, and has written many articles on the subject.

Tim Holmes is Reader Emeritus of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture of Cardiff University, UK, where he taught for 25 years as Director of the MA programme in Magazine Journalism and the MBA programme in Media Management. He founded the conference series Mapping the Magazine, running three editions in Cardiff before co-hosting with colleagues in Sydney, Chicago and Lisbon. He has written books and book chapters, and edited a number of volumes, including Mapping the Magazine (2008) and The Handbook of Magazine Studies (2020).