Hinda Mandell researches news coverage of scandal, focusing in particular on the gender and religious dimensions of these news events. Her dissertation examined media construction of wives at the center of political sex scandals. She comes to academic research after writing for the popular press, including both religious and nonsectarian publications. A recipient of international fellowships, including the American Council on Germany's McCloy Journalism Fellowship and the Museum of Jewish Heritage's Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship, Mandell has reported from Germany, Poland, China, Dublin and Jerusalem. She is a correspondent for the Boston Globe, where she writes on suburban life and religious affairs. She was one of the newspaper's correspondents who reported on Bernie Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme. Hinda also writes and blogs for the Forward newspaper. Hinda is the former editor in chief of Boston's Jewish Advocate, where she directed news coverage of religious affairs and their cultural implications. She is a former features editor at the Bennington Banner in Vermont. Hinda began her reporting career at the North Adams Transcript in Massachusetts, where she covered the cops and courts beat.

Andrew Quagliata has a Ph.D. in organizational communication from University at Buffalo. He earned his MBA and bachelor's degree in professional and technical communication from RIT. His research currently focuses on the relationship between communication style and career success outcomes. His other areas of expertise include interpersonal communication in the workplace, professional communication for business and writing and public speaking in the workplace.

Patrick Scanlon serves as chairman of the Department of Communication.

In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Scanlon conducts research in student plagiarism and in "marginal" writing such as ghostwriting.

Scanlon previously served as the RIT institute writing director (1994 to 1997) and as chair of Humanities for the College of Liberal Arts (1997 to 2000).

Scanlon has a bachelor's in English education from the State University of New York, Albany (1978) and a master's and Ph.D. in English from University of Rochester (1981, 1984).

Jonathan Schroeder is the William A. Kern Professor of Communications at Rochester Institute of Technology. He joins RIT from the University of Exeter in England, where he was Chair in Marketing and Director of Research for the Department of Management. His BA (Psychology) is from the University of Michigan and his MA and PhD (Social Psychology) is from the University of California, Berkeley, and he did postdoctoral work at Rhode Island School of Design. He has held visiting appointments at Wesleyan University (Center for the Humanities), Göteborg University, Sweden (Centre for Consumer Science), University of Auckland, New Zealand (Centre for Digital Enterprise), Bocconi University in Milan (Program in Fashion, Experience, and Design), and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Schroeder has published widely on branding, communication, consumer research, and identity. His current research involves four intersecting areas: aesthetic leadership, branding, ethics of representation and visual communication. He is the author of Visual Consumption (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of Brand Culture (Routledge, 2006). He is editor in chief of Consumption Markets & Culture, and serves on the editorial boards of Advertising and Society Review, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, European Journal of Marketing, Innovative Marketing, International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, Journal of Macromarketing, and Marketing Theory.