Robert Niles, Editor
Robert Niles is the editor of Japan Media Review and Online Journalism Review. He is also a journalism instructor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Robert got sucked into the Internet when computers and journalism collided in the early 1990s. A longtime math and computer geek, Robert had turned to journalism after graduating and deciding he couldn't stomach becoming a management consultant for Arthur Andersen. But the lure of marathon coding sessions proved too strong. Robert soon quit his job writing moderate-to-liberal editorials for a conservative newspaper that rarely published them, and he began making Web sites instead.

Robert started with an online tutorial showing other journalists how to use math and data, then branched out to niche sites on theme parks and classical music. These sites involve readers, inviting them to become correspondents contributing to the sites' coverage. The Online News Association honored Robert's Theme Park Insider in 2001 with an Online Journalism Award for Service Journalism. He has worked as a reporter, editor or online producer for the (Bloomington, Ind.) Herald Times, the Omaha World-Herald, the (Denver) Rocky Mountain News and the Los Angeles Times.

Shellie Branco, Managing Editor
Shellie Branco is the managing editor of Japan Media Review. She earned bachelor's degrees in print journalism and cultural anthropology from USC, where she is now pursuing a master's degree in professional writing. She was a contributing writer for the USC student newspaper, the Daily Trojan. She has also written for The Bakersfield Californian, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and the Pasadena Star-News.

Keiko Mori, Associate Editor
Keiko Mori is an associate editor for Japan Media Review. She is currently a graduate student in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC. Mori was born and raised in Tokyo, where she finished her bachelor's degree in political science at Keio University. She received her master's in communication management from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and completed the certificate program in creative writing at UCLA.

Eric Ulken, Associate Editor
Eric Ulken is an associate editor for Japan Media Review. He is pursuing a master's degree in communication management at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and also works as a news producer for the Los Angeles Times Web site. He grew up in Louisiana and received a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri. He has worked on the affiliated Web sites of several newspapers, including The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.