Part 1 Dallas W. Smythe: profile; interview with Dallas W. Smythe, J.A. Lent; against the flow - the peculiar opportunity of social scientists, Robin Mansell; "critical" communication research - new directions, Manjunath Pendakur. Part 2 George Gerbner: profile; interview with George Gerbner, J.A. Lent; the critical contribution of George Gerbner, Michael Morgan; trying to mix oil with water - fund-raising, vocationalism and critical communication, Janet Wasko. Part 3 Herbert I. Schiller: profile; interview with Herbert I. Schiller, J.A. Lent; Herbert Schiller - clarion voice against cultural hegemony, Lai-si Tsui; continuity and change in critical communication - a generational analysis, Vincent Mosco. Part 4 James D. Halloran: profile; interview with James D. Halloran, J.A. Lent; James D. Halloran - a multi-perspective presentation, Tamas Szecsko; who is (not) "critical" now? - on engendering "critical scholarship" in international communication, Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi. Part 5 Kaarle Nordenstreng: profile; interview with Kaarle Nordenstreng, J.A. Lent; justice, equality and professional ethics in journalism, Kaarle Nordenstreng's actions and reflections, Wolfgang Kleinwaechter; political versus cultural in critical broadcasting research and policy - a re-evaluation of the Finnish radical experiment in broadcasting in the late 1960s, Taisto Hujanen.