The Cagli Media Project
Institute for Education
in International Media
Andrew Ciofalo, Director
cagliproject@gmail.com
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Cagli, a town of 15,000 people, nestles on the eastern slopes of Italy's Apennine Mountains on the ancient Via Flaminia in the little known Marche region of Italy . The Adriatic beaches of Fano* are a 40-minute bus ride away, and the town offers upscale shopping, a gem of an opera house, a weekly street market, numerous cafes and restaurants, mountain hiking, a modern fitness center, bike rentals, excellent medical care, two hotels and river swimming. Students share apartments in the central old town.
Cagli’s history dates back over 2,000 years. It was an important Roman stronghold in 295 BC, guarding the pass that connected Rome to the Adriatic ports. Due to its strategic location, various Italian nobles warred to control it throughout medieval and Renaissance history, finally being destroyed in 1287. Rebuilt in 1289, that is the city one sees today.
Join a team of media professionals creating a web documentary on the town of Cagli, Italy…and get a taste of being a foreign correspondent. Earn 6 communication credits from Temple University that you can transfer back to your home campus. Any college student in good standing may apply regardless of major.
Cagli Archives
Cagli Media Project students have been writing stories, taking photos and producing videos for more than four years. Check out some of our previous work.
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Cindy Bonfini-Hotlosz (M.A. Communications,
West Virginia University,
B.S. Computer Science, Ohio University)
is the Chief Information Officer
and Director of Production for JesuitNET, a consortium of the Jesuit Colleges
and Universities in the United States. Cindy’s passion for production
began in high school, writing and producing annual
Christmas plays for the local elementary schools. She
produced one of the first International Teleconferences
Bridging the Gap: Education and Industry as part of a High Technology grant in 1989. In the late
1990s, she worked with NASA to produce several online
courses and communication campaigns for their
commercialization project, including a three-part
teleconferencing series, Technology Transfer in Action.
In her time with the Jesuit colleges, she has
helped launch new online programs that span several
disciplines. Her passion for story-telling has evolved
as technology has evolved -- keeping her on the “bleeding” edge. Bonfini taught Web design in Cagli
in 2006. You can find more information about Cindy
at http://www.jesuit.net/cbonfini/. |
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John Caputo (Gonzaga) earned his
Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate
School and University Center. He has
been teaching communication courses
for more than 30 years. His areas
of expertise include media and social
values, communication theory, intercultural
and interpersonal communication.
He is the author of four books: Dimensions of
Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Communicating
Effectively: Linking Thought and Expression;
and McDonaldization Revisited: Critical Essays
on Consumer Culture. Dr. Caputo has been honored
as a Visiting Scholar In-Residence at the University of
Kent at Canterbury, England and the Masters Program
in Media and Communication at the Universita de Firenze,
Italy. He is veteran faculty member from past
Cagli programs. |
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Giovanni Caputo received his degree in
communication and fine arts from
Gonzaga University and did his graduate
studies in education at the Evergreen
State College. Aside from
teaching in Italy, Giovanni has spent
time teaching at various levels inthe French public school system. Back in the U.S.,
Giovanni works as a French translator and graphic
designer. Giovanni’s academic interests include journalism,
short story writing and storytelling. In addition
to teaching a course on journaling in last year’s
Cagli program, Giovanni was the editor of the Cronaca
di Cagli, an online news and information blog
created for the program. |
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Andrew Ciofalo (MSJ, Columbia
University) is Professor of Communication/
Journalism at Loyola College
(Md.) where he arrived in 1983 to
found what is now The Communication
Department. He is the author
and director of the college’s Cagli
Program in International Reporting
which every summer since 2002 has sent undergraduates
to participate in The Cagli Media Project, an
on-going multi-media web documentary on a small
Italian town (http://www.CagliProject.com). In keeping
with his interest in experiential learning, he is the
founder of Apprentice House Press, a student-run
book publishing company at Loyola College (http://www.
ApprenticeHouse.com). He teaches courses in Travel
Writing, Book Publishing, Magazine Publishing, Magazine
Writing, and Opinion Writing. Most recently he
has founded The Institute for Education in International
Media, an independent organization that sponsors
Cagli-style media projects abroad. |
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Judy Dobler - Dr. Dobler (Ciofalo) has
been on the Communication Department
faculty at Loyola College (Md.)
since its inception. Immediately after
earning her doctorate ar the University
of Iowa, she came to Loyola to
play a significant role in the college’s
ground-breaking Writing-Across-the-Curriculum, which was funded by a major national
grant. In addition to specializing in the teaching of
essay writing, she heads the department’s Empirical
Rhetoric program, which gives qualified entering
freshmen opportunities to do more advanced writing.
Dr. Dobler also chairs the college’s Gender Studies
Program. Her academic research agenda focuses
on the development and use of metaphor in early
scientific writing, an interest that is expressed in one
of her courses, “Translating the Secrets of Science”.
Dr. Dobler was instrumental in the shaping of the
Cagli program during her stint on the faculty during
its inaugural year. |
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Dan Garrity (MA Communication
Leadership, Gonzaga University) is
an Assistant Professor of Communication
Arts and Director of the Broadcast
Studies Program at Gonzaga University.
Dan has an extensive background
in professional broadcasting. His first
job was in 1980 as a DJ at a radio
station in Flagstaff, Arizona. His television resume
includes stints as an anchor/reporter at KLST in San
Angelo, Texas, and at KREM in Spokane. He also was
a reporter at KING in Seattle, then embarked on a
career in television newsroom management in which
he served as Managing Editor at the CBS and NBC affiliates
in Spokane. Garrity also taught video for the
2006 Camerano Project. |
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Susan Jacobson (PhD, New York University) is a full-time faculty
member in the Dept. of Journalism
at Temple University. She teaches
courses in audio-visual newsgathering,
Web journalism, design for journliasts and student
portfolio preparation. Her projects
include an original hypertextual video
project Countless Stories, which
has been exhibited at the Streaming Cinema Festival,
Digital Video Expo and other venues. She has also
conducted several community webcasting projects in
Phildelphia and New York City, working with organizations
like Caroline’s Comedy Club on Broadway,
ComedySportz Philadelphia, and the Fluid Nightclub
in Philadelphia. Professor Jacobson received a B.S. in
Journalism from the University of Florida, an M.P.S
from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at
New York University, and a PhD in Arts and Humanities at NYU. |
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Rachele Kanigel (MSJ Columbia University)
is an assistant professor of
journalism at San Francisco State
University, where she advises Golden
Gate [X]press publications. Her students
produce a weekly newspaper,
a multimedia Web siteupdated daily
and a magazine that comes out three
times a semester. She also teaches Newswriting, Reporting,
the Contemporary Magazine and Magazine
Editing. She was a newspaper reporter for 15 years
for daily newspapers, including The Oakland Tribune
and The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina,
and was a freelance correspondent for TIME magazine.
She has also written for Health, Organic Style,
People, Reader’s Digest, Prevention and other national
magazines. In 2006 she was named California
Journalism Educator of the Year (Four-Year Division)
by the California Journalism Education Coalition.
Her book. The Student Newspaper Survival Guide,
was published by Blackwell Publishing in 2006. |
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Simona Londei is a native of Urbino,
Italy. She has studied language and
worked in the United States, Great
Britain and Germany. In the U.S., she
taught Italian language and grammar
at the University of Tennessee. |
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David Maialetti (C.C. of Philadelphia)
is a staff photographer with the
Philadelphia Daily News. Before joining
the Daily News in 1997, he worked
at the Press Enterprise newspaper in
Bloomsburg, Pa. Maialetti is the director
of Philadelphia Conference, a non-profit organization dedicated to
the promotion and advancement of photojournalism.
He is a former president of the Pennsylvania Press
Photographers Association. Currently teaches the Introduction
to Photojournalism course at Community
College of Philadelphia. He is a 1989 graduate of
Temple University’s School of Communications. |
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Douglas Mine was most recently senior editorfor Agencia EFE, the Spanish news
agency, directing coverage of South
America from their Miami office.
Most of his career has been with The
Associated Press as a foreign correspondent
covering El Salvador, Central
America, Argentina, Paraguay
and Uruguay. He has done stints as
a foreign desk editor for the AP in New York. He has
written two books including a novel, “Champions of
the World,” published by Simon and Schuster in 1988.
Mine, who is fluent in Italian and Spanish, earned his
B.A. in anthropology from Cornell University. Mine is
relocating to Acqualagna, Italy, just outside of Cagli
in the Marche region, giving the Cagli Project its first
permanent presence on the ground in Italy. |
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Father Bruno Segatta has practiced
the study and mastery of art since
earning his degree from Northridge
University in 1982. In the autumn
of that year, Father Bruno began his
tenure at Gonzaga University in Florence,
Italy as Assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs. Here he instructedpainting, drawing, design and the licate
techniques of fresco. Inspired by his surroundings,
he specializes in portraying the
Florence and Tuscany landscpaes utilizing
an abstract style with emphasis on color
and line. The revenue generated by his
work is used for student life in Florence
and also donated to the Niambani House
for Kids orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya; a
place of comfort for children stricken with
AIDS. |
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