Rod Nordland is currently a correspondent-at-large for the New York Times. A graduate of Pennsylvania State University and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he has been part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team for news, was a finalist for a Pulitzer in international reporting, and has worked as a foreign correspondent in over 150 countries. During three decades abroad, he has covered every war that involved Americans and several that did not. Rod is a native of Philadelphia, where he has a large extended family, and his immediate family lives in England.

Paul Barclay is a Walkley Award winning journalist and broadcaster with an appetite for ideas and in-depth analysis and discussion. Paul has produced countless stories over more than twenty years for an array of programs on virtually all ABC radio networks. He is currently the host of Big Ideas on ABC RN.