In 2000 he joined Sky News, initially as Executive Producer, Business News. In 2001 he switched to Executive Producer, Special Events. He has been Associate Editor since 2004. Simon has a special interest in innovation. He was responsible for Sky's reconstructions of the Hutton Inquiry into the death of the scientist David Kelly and the Michael Jackson trial; and he was responsible for winning permission to stream live stenography from courtrooms direct to TV screens. This work won the RTS Innovation award in 2004 and was nominated in 2006.

Simon has been closely involved with the Broadcasters' campaign to get cameras into courts. He is a member of the Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee and a director of the Society of Editors. In 2007, Simon switched to Sky News' burgeoning online department, where he is focusing on developing user interactivity.

Jimmy Leach is The Independent's Editorial Director for Digital. Before joining The Independent in June 2008, Jimmy worked as Digital Director at Freud Communications, joining them from Downing Street where he was head of the Prime Minister's digital communications. Previous to that, he spent six years at guardian.co.uk working on their business-to-business digital operations.

Simon Thompson has fifteen years in radio and online combined, working for some of the biggest brands in the industry including Heart, Capital, Sky, XFM and The Sun. He is the Showbiz Editor for Global Radio's entire Heart brand across the UK including Heart 106.2 in London and the associated websites - with six million plus listeners across the brand and over 1.2 million unique users per month online.

Ursula Errington is Sky News London based reporter. Ursula was the only journalist to broadcast live from the Irrawaddy Delta after the cyclone in Burma in May 2008. She also spent 6 months at the High Court giving live updates during the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and followed the jury's visit to the crash scene in Paris. Ursula joined Sky News as a producer in December 2004. As well as reporting, she occasionally presents overnight bulletins. Previously, she worked for BBC local radio and BBC Radio 4.

After graduating from Oxford with a BA in English Literature in 1999, Ursula worked on the trading floor of a major oil company and of an international bank. Ursula completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Cardiff University, in 2003.

Professor Adrian Monck has been Head of Journalism and Publishing at Britain's City University since 2005. He was educated at Oxford University and London Business School and went on to be an award-winning broadcast journalist with CBS News, ITN and Sky News.

Monck helped pioneer undercover reporting for News at Ten, and has covered conflicts in the Middle East and Bosnia. As a senior ITN executive he helped launch, and then run, the ground-breaking Five News service. Until he left Sky News to take up his role at City he had covered nearly every major national and international news event since 1988. His work at Dunblane and in Bosnia has received awards from the Royal Television Society, and on Rwanda won the special report gold medal, and overall festival prize at the New York International Festival.

Andrew Bloch is Co-founder and Managing Director of Frank PR, one of the UK's leading consumer PR agencies. Founded in 2000, the 60 strong agency has a reputation for providing creative solutions for some of the nation's best-known brands including the likes of Budweiser, BlackBerry, Persil, Alton Towers, Hovis and Kit Kat. The agency also represents a number of high profile personalities including Sir Alan Sugar, Ronnie O' Sullivan and Alexander the Meerkat.

Frank PR's high profile work has been recognised by Marketing Magazine, which has named it 'PR Agency of the Year' for two consecutive years. Frank PR are the first ever agency to win the Award more than once. Frank is also the Holmes Report European PR Consultancy of the Year.

Robin Britten began his career with a stint working for the Birmingham Post and Mail and BBC local radio radio in Birmingham, before joining BBC Radio News in London. There he worked on a range of Radio 4 news programmes, as Newsroom Output Editor, North America producer based in New York, before becoming Deputy Editor of the World at One. He was one of the founder editors of BBC Radio 5 Live, and edited a range of output on the station before ending up as the News Editor responsible for the station's reporters both in London and around the country.

Tom started out in 2001 at Red Dragon as a tea boy. Nearly 2 years later he got his break as part time programming assistant and 2 years after that took charge of the breakfast show as producer. After taking it from No4 to No1 in 10 months and winning a Best Breakfast Show Award he stayed with the show for 2 and a half years and then became Deputy PC. Following seismic movements in the industry, he was made redundant and so looking for a fresh challenge, was employed by Mercia to launch Breakfast with Andy Goulding in Sep '08. Adding 13,000 listeners, it continues to cause mischief daily from 6-10am.