About Us

The Institute for Education in International Media (ieiMedia) is sponsoring intensive journalism study-abroad courses in the summer of 2012. The programs are open to English-speaking college students and recent graduates from all schools. Each media course is taught by a team of professional journalists and journalism educators.

Andrew Ciofalo, ieiMedia Founder and President

The Institute for Education in International Media, a pioneer in journalism education, has been taking students abroad since 2002. It was founded by Andrew Ciofalo, now a professor emeritus at Loyola University Maryland.

Our projects aim to educate students in various media disciplines while at the same time inspiring them to explore a foreign culture. For each project, students produce a publication — a multimedia website, print magazine or book — about the community where they live and learn. The stories produced range in subjects from economics and health care to language and culture.

Past programs have been based in Urbino, Italy (2009, 2010 & 2011); Perpignan, France (2010 & 2011); Istanbul, Turkey (2011); Armagh, Northern Ireland (2007, 2009); Cagli, Italy (2002-2008) and Camerano, Italy (2006). Nearly 400 students have participated in these programs.

In 2009, ieiMedia formed a partnership with San Francisco State University’s Journalism Department and College of Extended Learning. This year SFSU will provide university credit for the programs in Perpignan, France and Istanbul, Turkey. Iowa State University and James Madison University will sponsor university credit for the program in Urbino, Italy.

Featured People Behind ieiMedia

Rachele Kanigel, ieiMedia Executive Director (Professor at San Francisco State University)

Bob Marshall, Reporter - The Times-Picayune (Two Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter)

Dennis Chamberlin - Urbino, Italy Program Director (Pulitzer Prize Winning Photojournalist)

Mary D'Ambrosio - Istanbul Program Director and Editor of Big World Magazine

Susan West - Urbino, Italy Magazine Co-Editor and former executive editor of Smithsonian magazine

Frank Mungeam - Prague, Czech Republic Program Director and Director of Digital Media for the NBC broadcast group in Portland, Oregon

Jane Satterfield - Author of two Poetry Books and winner of the 2011 Mslexia Poetry Competition

Steve Anderson - Director of ieiMedia Video Programs and Former Environmental Reporter at KCNC-TV in Denver

Doug Cumming - Salamanca, Spain Program Director and Urbino, Italy Instructor