Roy Peter Clark and Christopher Scanlan are both working journalists and teachers at the Poynter Institute, a world-renowned journalism school that provides writing, reporting, and editing seminars to thousands of media professionals each year. Both have helped in developing the annual Distinguished Writing Awards competition, and have chosen the stories in America's Best Newspaper Writing: A Collection of ASNE Prizewinners, Second Edition (2006), making a collection that is truly the "best of the best."