Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is a Japanese-American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his role in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He is currently a practicing judge, who hears felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. He is a resident of Pasadena. Ito was born to two Japanese-American parents, Jim and Toshi Ito.

Jonathan Alter is a columnist and senior editor for "Newsweek" magazine, where he has worked since 1983. A Chicago native and resident of Montclair, New Jersey, he is also a contributing correspondent to NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared regularly on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. In addition, he can be heard frequently on cancelled "Imus in the Morning," and "The Al Franken Show" on Air America Radio.

Jessica Morales née McClure, became famous at the age of 18 months after falling into a Midland, Texas well on October 14, 1987. Rescuers worked for 58 hours to free "Baby Jessica" from an 8-inch-wide pipe. The story gained worldwide attention (leading to some criticism as a media circus), and later became the subject of a 1989 ABC TV movie, "Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure", starring Patty Duke and Beau Bridges.

Danny Almonte Rojas (born April 7 1987 in Moca, Dominican Republic) is a former Little League baseball pitcher, the subject of a media circus in 2001. Considered a phenomenon as he led his Bronx, New York team into the playoffs, Almonte was revealed to have actually been born in 1987 instead of 1989, two years too old to play Little League baseball, even as his team, the Rolando Paulino All Stars, won third place in the Little League World Series.

Albert Johnson (alias, name unknown), known as the Mad Trapper of Rat River, was a lone hermit accused of criminal activity whose actions eventually sparked off a huge manhunt in the Northwest Territories in Canada. The event became a minor media circus as Johnson eluded the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) team sent to take him into custody, which ended after a 150 mile (240 km) foot chase in a shootout in which Johnson was fatally wounded.

Rainey Bethea was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States. A black male, who was 26 years old, he confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old white woman named Lischia Edwards, and was publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky after being convicted of her rape. Mistakes in executing the hanging and the surrounding media circus contributed to the end of public executions in the United States.

The Runaway Bride case refers to Jennifer Carol Wilbanks an American who ran away from home on April 26, 2005, in an effort to avoid her wedding with John Mason, her fiancé, on April 30. Her disappearance from Duluth, Georgia, sparked a nationwide search and intensive media coverage. On April 29, she called Mason from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and falsely claimed that she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a Hispanic male and a white woman.

The Tawana Brawley rape case involves Tawana Brawley, an African American woman, who in 1987 at age 15 received national media attention in the US for accusing six white men, some of them police officers, in the village of Wappingers Falls, New York of rape. The incident soon became a media circus, promulgated primarily by Reverend Al Sharpton and by attorneys Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason.

Etan Kalil Patz was a six-year-old child who disappeared in lower Manhattan on May 25, 1979. At the time, news coverage of Patz's disappearance was made into a media circus in the New York area. He is arguably the most famous missing child of New York City. He was the first child to be pictured on the back of a milk carton.

Alan Abel (b. 1930) is an American prankster, hoaxter, writer, mockumentary filmmaker, and jazz percussionist famous for several hoaxes that became media circuses.

Donald Ralph Walters (September 16, 1969-March 23, 2003) was a U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Sergeant, officially listed as killed in action in southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on March 23 2003 in the same ambush in which Jessica Lynch was captured. He was awarded the Silver Star for his gallantry during the attack.

Lydia Echevarría is a controversial Puerto Rican actress. She was convicted of masterminding the murder of her husband Luis Vigoreaux and spent 13 years in jail. Echevarría married Luis Vigoreaux, producer of such 1960s and 70s WAPA-TV television shows as "Pa'rriba Papi Pa'rriba" and "Sube Nene Sube", on February 10, 1960. She co-hosted the shows with him and together, they became one of Puerto Rico's most famous couples.

Kelly Dae Wilson (born May 18, 1974) is a U.S. teenager who disappeared on January 5, 1992 in Gilmer, Texas after she left her job at a video store. Wilson remains missing today. The disappearance caused concern in Texas, and eventually led to a huge "media circus" with mythology about a satanic cult, leading to what some describe as a modern witch hunt. Wilson was 17 years old at the time, and was heading to a bank to make a deposit when she disappeared.

Allan has more than 20 years of experience at leading print and online properties. He has held editorial, marketing, and production positions at New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, HR Outsourcing Today, MediaPost, and the high-tech B2B publications of F&G Thomson Financial. In the Internet era, Allan joined Mediapost.com, developing and launching its monthly print companion, MEDIA Magazine (now called OMMA).

Franco Fiore Executive Creative Director In the course of his career Franco has served as an Internet creative director, creative director and senior designer, resulting in a unique set of creative and business management skills. As a visionary in the industry, Franco is known for his focus on brand/image integrity and a strong corporate voice.

Vatche Kalaidjian , 32, formerly of the Deutsche Bank Technology Group, has been appointed Director of Business Development for Autonomy's new Business Development Unit. Mr. Kalaidjian was a key member of the Deutsche Bank Technology Group since 1998 and specialized in both mergers and acquisitions (Mx) and equity offerings for technology companies in Europe. Mr. Kalaidjian was instrumental in managing Autonomy's NASDAQ listing in May 2000.

David Futrelle , Editor, Media Circus. Since extricating himself from graduate school several years back, he has made a more-or-less meager living writing essays and reviews for such publications as Newsday, the Nation, Lingua Franca, PlanetOUT and HotWired. He writes about appalling things for In These Times magazine, where once upon a time he was books editor. He subscribes to more magazines than he can afford, spends too much time on the Well, and watches far too much bad TV.