Janet Steele is associate professor of media, and of public affairs and international affairs, at George Washington University. She is author of Email Dari Amerika [Email from America] (Yayasan Pantau, 2014), Wars Within: The Story of Tempo, an Independent Magazine in Soeharto's Indonesia (Equinox Publishing and the Institute for SE Asian Studies, 2005), and The Sun Shines for All: Journalism and Ideology in the Life of Charles A. Dana (Syracuse University Press, 1993).