NPR's senior European correspondent, Sylvia Poggioli has become a favorite reporter of the Magliozzi Brothers on Car Talk. Her name has also been featured in the absurdest comic strip Zippy the Pinhead.

Veteran political journalist and bestselling author, Thomas DeFrank is the Washington bureau chief of the New York Daily News where he directs coverage of the nation's capital for the country's third-largest metropolitan daily newspaper. DeFrank is author of Write it When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford.

Tyler Brule was trained as a journalist with the BBC, but eventually left the journalism field and launched a style and fashion magazine called Wallpaper*, one of the most influential fashion magazines of the 1990s. He's been a regular columnist for the Financial Times, The New York Times, and others.