Tim Lloyd has lived in Unley most of his life. He took a degree in history at the University of Adelaide and joined Adelaide's Advertiser in 1974. For many years he wrote the newspaper's obituary pages and a weekly Heritage Matters column. He was arts editor for the paper from 1987 to 1995 and its theatre critic since 1977. In 2024 be became a member of the South Australian Heritage Council.
Louise Nunn joined the Advertiser as a cadet journalist in the 1980s while living in Unley, before moving to Sydney to work in arts publicity. In the 1990s, she returned to the Advertiser as a writer and sub-editor on the Saturday magazine, and worked as arts editor from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Her arts reports appeared in the Advertiser for more than 30 years in news, reviews, features, editorials, columns and opinion pieces.