Salamanca Faculty

Cindy Burgess, M.A is a Toronto-based journalist with over 20 years of experience in all aspects of the news broadcasting industry – both in front of and behind the camera. She holds a Masters Degree in Journalism and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Western Ontario. Cindy’s innate sense of curiosity and passion for storytelling has served her well in markets across Canada and in the United States. She recently completed six months of freelance work throughout Central America, where her coverage included the constitutional crisis and subsequent military coup in Honduras in July 2009. Cindy teaches journalism courses at Sheridan College and Ryerson University in Canada. Cindy continues to work as a freelance journalist both at home and abroad and is a frequent contributor to the Toronto Star’s travel section.

Doug Cumming, Ph.D. (Reporting) is an associate professor of journalism at Washington & Lee University with 26 years experience at metro newspapers and magazines. Since getting a Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill in mass communications, he has taught multimedia reporting and feature writing at Loyola University-New Orleans and at W&L in Virginia. Earlier, he worked at the newspapers in Raleigh, Providence and Atlanta, was editor of the Sunday Magazine in Providence and helped launch Southpoint monthly magazine in Atlanta. He won a George Polk Award and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. His book The Southern Press came out in 2009, and more recently, he edited and wrote the foreword to Bylines, a selection of magazine articles by his father Joe Cumming, who was Newsweek’s Southern bureau chief in the ’60s and ’70s. He will be the program director for the Salamanca program in 2012. He taught Reporting in Urbino in 2011 and returns in 2012. Read professor Cumming’s 2011 Urbino blog at: http://docurbino.wordpress.com

Sherine Mansour, M.A.C is a former journalist with over 20 years experience as a reporter, host, producer and writer. She holds a Masters degree in Journalism and Communications from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario. She has received awards for her reporting, including an RTNDA award for her story on the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada. Sherine is also an experienced online journalist and has focused her efforts on web news environments and enhanced content creation for print publications. Now a journalism educator, Sherine is the head of the Journalism New-Media post-graduate at Sheridan College in Oakville, Canada. She teaches courses in TV reporting and hosting, producing, writing and interactive storytelling. She is the Editor of Pundit magazine, Sheridan’s news and current affairs publication.

John Zibluk Ph.D., is professor of journalism at Arkansas State University, where he is the primary teacher in the state’s only photojournalism degree program. His professional journalism work has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, News Photographer magazine, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and Rolling Stone. He is a former National Geographic magazine faculty fellow, and a former vice president of the National Press Photographers Association. He won the NPPA’s Garland educator of the year award in 2005, and the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association’s Lemke educator award in 2009. In 2011, he led a group of Arkansas State University students to India, where he produced a multi media blog at: http://www.asuindia.blogspot.com. A native of Derby, Connecticut, he worked for 10 years as a newspaper writer, photographer and editor, in southern New England. He earned his bachelors and masters in political science and urban studies at Southern Connecticut State University, and his Ph.D. in mass communications from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
He lives in Jonesboro Arkansas, with his wife, Sara E. McNeil, director of communications at Arkansas state, and their daughter, Kate, 12, who is also a budding journalist. Jack will teach in Salamanca in 2012.