Lucinda L Austin Editor

Lucinda L. Austin serves as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media, USA. She researches pressing problems in strategic communication, primarily addressing social media and crisis communication, and publics’ perspectives in corporate social responsibility and advocacy.

Brooke Fisher Liu is Professor of Communication and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, USA. She researches how strategic communication contributes to organizational and community crisis readiness.