James Carviou
James Carviou is an assistant professor of convergent journalism and public relations in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Missouri Western State University. He serves as the adviser for the Griffon Yearbook. Carviou has a multi-faceted background in journalism education that bridges the gap between the academy and best practice in the field. Carviou…
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Curt Chandler
Curt Chandler died on January 31, 2022. Chandler taught multimedia reporting and entrepreneurial journalism at Penn State University. In 2017 he was the multimedia coach for ieiMedia’s Oslo Rocks! music reporting program in Norway. He had more than 25 years of industry experience as a visual journalist, writer, editor and online producer. He taught photojournalism…
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Ashley Colburn
Ashley Colburn began her career as a host, producer, and writer for Wealth TV in 2009. She produced her first travel show ”WOW Croatia!” which was awarded Croatia’s Golden Pen award (Best U.S. media) and won an Emmy in 2010. Following her success with the Croatia show, Colburn created “TAKEOFF with Ashley Colburn” a travel…
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Mary D’Ambrosio
Mary D'Ambrosio (Bologna, Italy Director) is an assistant professor of journalism at Central Connecticut State University, and previously taught at New York and Columbia universities. A writer specializing in international issues, she has reported from the U.K., Turkey, Italy and Latin America. She served as an editor at Global Finance magazine in New York, a…
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Judy Dobler
Judy Dobler, Ph.D. is retired from the Writing Department at Loyola University (Md.). Her contributions in developing standards, pedagogy and structure in the formative years of ieiMedia continue to shape the thrust of ieiMedia experiential programs to this day. Immediately after earning her doctorate at the University of Iowa, she came to Loyola in 1983…
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Michael Finch
Michael Finch Ph.D., is an assistant professor of communication and student media adviser at Lee University in Tennessee. Finch worked as a journalist and then became a Poynter Fellow before he became a professor. He received his Ph.D. in communication from Regent University, where he completed a dissertation about resistance and identity among minority subcultures in…
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Katya Komarova
Katya Komarova (public relations faculty) is a visiting instructor at the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications at the University of South Florida, where she teaches Advanced Public Relations, Public Relations Issues and Mass Media Research. Under Katya's supervision, USF students developed over 40 public relations campaigns for businesses and non-profit organizations in the Tampa…
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Kurt Lancaster
Kurt Lancaster is a professor of creative media and film at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of DSLR Cinema (Focal Press), Video Journalism for the Web (Routeldge), Production House Cinema (Focal Press), among other works. His students have gone on to create their own video production houses, worked as producers and cinematographers, as…
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Clemente Lisi
Clemente Lisi is an affiliate assistant professor of journalism at The King's College in New York, co-director of the NYC Semester in Journalism program and an adviser to the student online newspaper/print magazine/video platform, The Empire State Tribune. A graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Lisi worked as a journalist and editor for…
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Lori Listopad
Lori Listopad is currently the director of residence life at the University of Jamestown. Her graduate and undergraduate degrees are in mass communication. Prior to working in higher education, Listopad was a reporter and morning anchor at KSAX in Alexandria, Minn. Listopad teaches public speaking and professional communication both online and in the classroom, as well…
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Douglas Quin
Douglas Quin is a sound designer, naturalist, public radio commentator, educator and music composer. For the past 30 years Quin has traveled widely documenting the natural soundscape—from Antarctic ice to Arctic tundra and from African savannah to Amazon rainforest. His recordings of endangered and disappearing habitats represent one of the most unique and extensive collections…
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David Shabazz
David Shabazz is an associate chair in the School of the Humanities and Performing Arts and an assistant professor of journalism at Kentucky State University. He teaches introductory and advanced courses in radio, television and new media. His area of interest is radio and television broadcasting, and he advises the student broadcasting club. Areas of research…
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John Shrader
John Shrader (Valencia, Spain Director) is an assistant professor of Broadcasting at the University of Nebraska. He teaches courses in broadcast journalism, including news and sports journalism for both radio and television, and visual storytelling for all media. John spent 30 years as a broadcaster in San Francisco, for which he won an Emmy Award…
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Vanessa Vancour
Vanessa Vancour is a former TV anchor with a passion for bilingual storytelling. She teaches social journalism, community engagement and bilingual news at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. Vanessa is passionate about equity, inclusion and thoughtful diversity initiatives. In 2017, she delivered a TEDx talk titled "I'm Mexican, Does that Change…
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Venise Wagner
Venise Wagner (Reporting – ieiMedia Fellow) is an associate professor of journalism at San Francisco State University. She spent 12 years as a reporter for various California dailies, including the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle. While at the Examiner she covered education and issues in the Bay Area’s various black communities. She…
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Pawel Wyszomirski
Pawel Wyszomirski (Photography – ieiMedia Fellow) is a freelance photographer from Gdansk, Poland, and cofounder of the photo community Testigo, a collective of photographers and videographers focusing on visual journalism. He participated in the international documentary photo project that dealt with complex Polish-German relations “Wie du es siehst?” and has exhibited his work in Poland…
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