Phil Bronstein - Phil Bronstein began his career in San Francisco as a reporter and editor at the Jewish Bulletin. He then moved on to reporting duties with KQED-TV and the San Francisco Examiner.
Bronstein specializes in investigative projects and foreign correspondence. In 1986, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his work in the Philippines, and he went on to cover conflicts in other parts of Southeast Asia, El Salvador, Peru, and the Middle East.
Bronstein was named executive editor of the Examiner in 1991, having previously served as managing editor for news. When the Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle merged in November 2000, he was named Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of the paper and became Executive Vice President and Editor of the Chronicle in March 2003.
In February 2008, Bronstein was named Executive Vice President and Editor at Large of the Chronicle.
Michael Kinsley - Michael Kinsley is the founding editor of Slate. He currently writes a column for both Slate and the Washington Post. Kinsley founded Slate in 1995 and was its editor for six years.
For two decades he was associated with The New Republic, as its editor and as author of its "TRB From Washington" column. He was editor-in-chief of Harper's, editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times, editor of the American Survey department at The Economist, and managing editor of The Washington Monthly.
Kinsley co-hosted CNN's Crossfire for six years, and also moderated William F. Buckley's Firing Line debates. Kinsley has written regular columns for The New Republic, Time, The Wall Street Journal and the Times of London.
One of the most prolific and thoughtful commentators on the U.S. political scene today, Kinsley turns his razor sharp intellect and dead-on commentary to our financial system.
Kinsley served as editor of the New Republic, and as the liberal half of the original "Crossfire" team with Pat Buchanan, as well as John Sununu and Robert Novak.
He also worked with the late William F. Buckley on "Firing Line"- The Commonwealth Club of California