Doron Levin has been a journalist and author in Detroit since 1984, having covered business, finance and the auto industry for The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Detroit Free Press and Bloomberg.

A native Detroiter, Bill McGraw worked at the Detroit Free Press for 32 years as a city-desk reporter, sports writer, Canada correspondent, editor and columnist. He has been the editor of three books: “Great Pages in Michigan History,” “The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young” and The Detroit Almanac. His writing also has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, the Toronto Globe and Mail, Firehouse, History Workshop Journal, the Fifth Estate and Orbit.

Jeff Wattrick worked as a reporter/producer at WDET before escaping journalism to try his hand at non-profit endeavors and advertising. However, he couldn’t resist the siren song of metro Detroit’s foibles and excesses. He is the founder of the Dyspathy blog and later worked as a reporter/blogger for MLive Detroit. In his brief but celebrated career, he’s covered or opined on everything from Gary Brown’s whistleblower lawsuit and Super Bowl XL to Ambassador Bridge Gateway fight and social norms at the Mackinac Policy Conference.

"Everything that is wrong-headed, cynical & vicious in me today traces straight back to that evil hour in September of ’69 when I decided to get heavily involved in the political process…" - Hunter S. Thompson

Twitter: @Woodwardsfriend

Darrell Dawsey is a veteran journalist who has written for numerous publications and Web sites, including the Detroit News, USAToday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, Essence, Vibe, zocalopublicsquare.org, mlive.com and the time.com "Assignment: Detroit" project. He is the author of three books, including Living To Tell About It: Young Black Men in America Speak Their Piece and the best-selling I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is. Dawsey lives in metro Detroit with his wife and two small children.

Lauren Ann Davies is a digital journalism addict. She enjoys writing, design, and any way to combine the two.

Allan Lengel is a veteran journalist who has worked at major publications including the Washington Post and the Detroit News. He served as an intern under the late investigative columnist Jack Anderson and taught journalism at the University of Maryland. He is also editor of a website on federal law enforcement news called ticklethewire.com.

Over the years, Lengel has covered major events including the 9-11 attacks, the Congressman William Jefferson investigation, the Chandra Levy probe, the anthrax attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing and the trial of Detroit Police Chief William Hart. He is a member of IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors).

Svoboda lives in Grosse Pointe Park and is a veteran journalist. Over the years, she has worked for the Associated Press, The (Toledo) Blade and the Metro Times and has freelanced for a variety of local, regional and national publications. She has taught journalism, speech and political science at Wayne State University and Owens Community College, and has degrees in journalism, history and public administration.

A graduate student at Wayne State University, Amanda writes on technology, Michigan businesses, and food in Metro Detroit. Her work has been featured in The Nation, The Royal Oak Daily Tribune, and literary journals.

Amanda is passionate about Detroit and Michigan.  She considers herself one of those super awesome millennials who stayed in Michigan to help make it a better place.

Tim is a development lead at Compuware Ventures in Detroit.  In that role, he also serves as the technology directory for Deadline Detroit.  Tim is a recognized leader in the software development field with over 20 years of software industry experience.

In addition to his development work, Tim is also a frequent speaker and writer on the subject of technology and software development.   Tim has written two full-length books on the subjects of Java and Ruby programming, and has contributed articles and blogs to numerous technology-based publications.  He also has a passion for helping the tech community in Detroit grow.

Alan Stamm is a veteran Detroit journalist who worked for most of his career at The Detroit News as a copy editor, assistant national editor and assistant metro editor. A Manhattan native and graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communication, he also has worked at the Syracuse New Times and the Bergen (N.J.) Record.

Since 2003, Stamm has been a marketing communication consultant. He was a Birmingham Patch columnist and freelance contributor to Patch news sites in Metro Detroit from 2010-12. He blogs about media and marketing at Alan's Alley, and lives in Birmingham with his wife.

Nicole Rupersburg is a Detroit-based editor and journalist who covers metro Detroit's arts, culture, entertainment, food, entrepreneurship and business development scenes for several different local publications, though she really wants to be a travel writer with an expense account when she grows up. She is also the "HBIC" of Eat It Detroit.