Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, a unit of the Washington Post Co. devoted to developing Web-based publications. Weisberg joined Slate shortly after its founding in 1996 as chief political correspondent. He succeeded Michael Kinsley to become Slate's second editor from 2002 until 2008, when he handed the job over to David Plotz. Before joining Slate, Weisberg wrote about politics for magazines including the New Republic, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair and the New York Times Magazine. His most recent book, The Bush Tragedy, was a New York Times bestseller in 2008. He is the co-author, with Robert E. Rubin, of In an Uncertain World (2003). He is also the author of the 1996 book In Defense of Government, the 2000 eBook The Road to Chadville, and the Bushisms series.

John Alderman serves as general manager of The Slate Group and publisher of Slate Magazine, the award-winning online magazine with an audience of more than six million viewers each month. As publisher, Alderman creates cutting-edge business solutions for Slate to increase readership and align top advertisers with the magazine's savvy, influential audience.

In addition to his leadership role at Slate, Alderman serves as Vice President of Business Development at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. Overseeing the Business Development team, Alderman supports and grows WPNI's six properties through new partnerships and ventures. These strategic business relationships help give WPNI's content, tools and technologies more exposure across the web, increasing traffic and creating non-traditional opportunities to generate revenue.

Prior to WPNI, Alderman was Vice President of Business and Product Development at The Away Network, a Cendant Company. Alderman received his master's of Business Administration at Columbia Business School in June 2000. Prior to that, he served in various roles in editorial and business development at Outside magazine.

Alderman's strong publishing background gives him a unique understanding of editorial content and technology, and his forward-thinking strategy seeks out innovation. Alderman currently serves on the board at Grist, a Seattle- based non-profit Web site that focuses on environmental news and commentary. Alderman received an A.B. from Harvard College and currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Alexandra and Australian Cattle Dog Lola.

James Ledbetter is the editor of The Big Money. Previously, he was deputy managing editor of CNN Money and Fortune.com. He is the former business editor of Time Europe and former editor of the Industry Standard Europe. His writing about business, media, and technology has appeared in Slate, the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Nation, GQ, the American Prospect, Columbia Journalism Review, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and many other publications. He is the editor of Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx and the author of Made Possible By ...: The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States. He is currently working on a book about Eisenhower's farewell address and the concept of the military-industrial complex.

Elinor Shields is deputy editor of The Big Money. Previously, she was managing editor of the Huffington Post, where she managed the expansion of the site through the launch of five new verticals on politics, media, business, entertainment, and living, a reported political blog, and revamped video strategy. Shields has also worked as a senior journalist at BBCNews.com in London, where she edited and wrote news, features, and analysis for the world desk. Prior to working at the BBC, she was a reporter for Time Europe. Shields has degrees in international relations from the London School of Economics and history from Cambridge University.