Faculty
Amara Aguilar
Amara Aguilar is an associate professor of professional practice in digital journalism at USC Annenberg. She previously was the journalism department chair and an assistant professor of journalism at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif., where she advised student news publications and led the journalism program’s mobile and tablet initiatives. She was honored by the…
Read MoreSusan Biddle
Susan Biddle was a Washington Post staff photographer for thirteen years and now freelances for the Post as well as other publications and organizations. She began her career photographing for the Peace Corps and later worked as a staff photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Denver Post. After five years at the Denver Post she…
Read MoreTerry Bryant
Terry Bryant is a senior professorial lecturer and Associate Division Director for Journalism at American University. He’s taught broadcasting and media writing courses at AU since 2017. From 2015 to 2017, he was the broadcast coordinator at Mississippi State University. Before his move to Mississippi State, he spent two years as a professorial lecturer at…
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Giovanni Caputo
Giovanni has dual Italian and American citizenship and speaks half of dozen languages. Aside from teaching in Italy, Giovanni has spent time teaching at various levels in the French public school system. Back in the U.S., he works as a French translator and graphic designer. Giovanni’s academic interests include journalism, short story writing and storytelling.…
Read MoreJohn Caputo
John Caputo is Professor Emeritus in the Master’s Program in Communication and Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University and the Walter Ong S.J. Scholar. He founded the MA Program in 2004. Dr. Caputo earned his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School and University Center. He has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Italy. He has been…
Read MoreFrancesca Carducci
Francesca Carducci (Italian Language/Urbino Interpreter Supervisor) received her degree in Pharmacy at the University of Urbino. She teaches English and is a lecturer (CEL) in the Department of Modern Literature and Philological-Linguistic Sciences at the University of Urbino. She is a member of the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) staff of the faculty of…
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Deni Chamberlin
Deni Chamberlin is an associate professor of journalism at Iowa State University, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and the Director of Photography at the Food & Environment Reporting Network. She has more than 20 years experience as a newspaper and magazine photojournalist and has worked for publications such as TIME, The New York Times Sunday Magazine…
Read MoreTerri Ciofalo
Terri Ciofalo is the associate director for production and the director of new work at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts as well as a member of the stage management faculty in the Department of Theatre at the University of Illinois. An expert logistical manager, Terri has toured nationally and regionally with a variety of theatre artists…
Read MoreLona Cobb
Lona D. Cobb is a professor in the Communication and Media Studies Department at Winston-Salem State University, where she has taught “Journalism Writing for Print and Online,” “Study Abroad in the Discipline” (taking students to South Africa, Zanzibar, Kenya and Italy) and other core CMS courses. She has been a member of the ieiMedia faculty since…
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Kristine Crane
Kristine Crane is an adjunct instructor at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications in Gainesville, where she is also working on a doctorate. She began her journalism career in Rome, Italy, writing for The Wall Street Journal and Religious News Service, as well as two English-language start-ups, Italy Daily, an insert to…
Read MoreBarbara Demick
Barbara Demick is an award-winning journalist and author with a specialty in foreign affairs. She was bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing and Seoul, and previously reported from the Middle East, Berlin and the Balkans for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is the author of three books, most recently Eat the Buddha: Life…
Read MoreDorian Geiger
Dorian Geiger, an ieiMedia Urbino alum, is an award-winning Canadian journalist, producer, and filmmaker based in New York City. He has a diverse background in breaking news, digital video, and media strategy and is a currently a full-time writer-producer at LinkedIn News. He also serves as a part-time national crime reporter for NBC Universal. His journalism has been featured…
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Marie Gould
Before joining iei Media as the Director of Admissions and Communication, Marie Gould ran a service learning program for Tulane University in New Orleans. She has extensive experience working with college students there and as a field ranger for the United States Forest Service in Colorado where she supervised college students working as interns at her…
Read MoreLinda Gradstein
Linda Gradstein teaches journalism at Hebrew University and NYU-Tel Aviv. She is also a freelance reporter for diverse outlets, including Voice of America, CBS Radio, Hadassah Magazine and the Jerusalem Report. For 20 years, she was the National Public Radio correspondent based in Jerusalem, and she won several awards for her coverage, including the Overseas Press…
Read MoreRustin Greene
Rustin Greene spent his first career as a television writer/producer/director, earning two Los Angeles Area EMMY awards and three Cable ACE awards. Rusty is now in his second career, teaching in James Madison University’s School of Media Arts and Design. Rusty continues to write and produce, and his programs have earned several awards, including a third…
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Vanessa Guinan-Bank
Vanessa Guinan-Bank works as a bilingual freelance journalist based in Berlin. As a news assistant for the Berlin Bureau of the Washington Post, she covers news in Germany and Europe, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. She also writes and produces on arts and culture for various German media outlets and radio…
Read MoreLaird Harrison
Laird Harrison is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in magazines (TIME, Audubon, Reader’s Digest, People, Health), newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press); and Web sites (Reuters, Salon, MSNBC, CNN.com). He has produced video for Web sites of Smithsonian Magazine and WebMD, and audio for KQED and WUNC public media stations. He has taught…
Read MoreRenee (Stillings) Huhs
Renee (Stillings) Huhs is founder and director of SRAS, an organization that has developed and promoted academic study abroad in the post-Soviet space for over 20 years. She speaks Russian fluently and lived for several years in Moscow. SRAS works with top educational institutions and other service providers in Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and…
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Barry Janes
Barry Janes works and teaches electronic media theory, programming and technology at Rider University. He has been a producer, director and/or writer of more than 100 video productions, and has advised numerous corporations, non-profit organizations and municipalities. Dr. Janes’ research interests include Broadcast Programming and History, and, most recently, the effective use of computer-based asynchronous technologies…
Read MoreRachele Kanigel
Rachele Kanigel is a professor and former chair of the Journalism Department at San Francisco State University. She was a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years as well as a freelance correspondent for TIME Magazine. She has written for U.S. News & World Report, Health, Reader’s Digest, San Francisco Magazine and other magazines and websites. She is the author…
Read MoreElisabeth Kvernen
Elisabeth Kvernen is a graphic designer and communications specialist with more than a decade of experience working in multiple design disciplines. She has worked with non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, universities, and small businesses — both locally and globally. Past clients include the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the Louvre Museum, the New York Public…
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Kathryn Lancioni
Kathryn Lancioni is lecturer in the School of Commuication and Information at Rutgers University. She is an award-winning, internationally recognized expert in the field of communications and was recently named as one of PR News' "People of the Year" in 2023. Her expertise lies in the intersection of communication, technology, and society. With more than…
Read MoreSteven Listopad
Steven Listopad is a Ph.D. candidate at North Dakota State University and has been an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication and student media director at the University of Jamestown and Valley City State University in Norwegian-rich North Dakota. He has taught journalism and media in China (2013); Nice, France (2014); Florence, Italy (2015);…
Read MoreGreg Luft
Greg Luft has recently been appointed as the interim Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Colorado State University. Prior to that he as held a position with the university as a professor and chair of the Journalism and Media Communication department. His professional work before and during his academic career includes television news reporting and…
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Kimberley Lynne
Kimberley Lynne is a playwright, novelist, teacher, and theatrical producer. Over thirty of her plays have been produced in Baltimore, Washington, Minneapolis and New York, including five professional productions at Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and Rep Stage. Apprentice House published her ghost folklore novel, Dredging the Choptank, in 2010 and her one-man Christmas Carol, A Dickens of…
Read MoreBob Marshall
Bob Marshall is a New Orleans journalist whose reporting on Louisiana coastal issues at The Times-Picayune and The Lens has been recognized by two Pulitzer Prizes; the John H. Oakes Prize for Distinguished Environmental Reporting from Columbia University; the Keck Award for best science reporting from The National Academies of Sciences, a national Edward Murrow Award…
Read MoreGeorge Miller
George Miller is a longtime journalist. He was a photojournalist and reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News from 1994 through 2005, and he published a local music magazine in Philadelphia from 2010 through 2018. He has been on the faculty of the journalism department at Temple University since 2007. He taught summer multimedia journalism programs…
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Nomi Morris
Nomi Morris is a lecturer in the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara and director of the journalism track in the university’s professional writing minor. She covered the opening of the Berlin Wall for The Toronto Star newspaper then worked as a correspondent for five years in Berlin, including for the San Francisco Chronicle, CBC…
Read MoreIlene Prusher
Ilene Prusher is a full-time journalism instructor at Florida Atlantic University, where she is also a faculty fellow in the Peace, Justice and Human Rights Initiative. She is an award-winning journalist and author who has reported widely in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Prusher will serve as director of ieiMedia Jerusalem after having taught…
Read MoreTeresa Puente
Teresa Puente, an assistant professor at California State University, Long Beach, teaches News Reporting and Ethics, Social Media Communication and Bilingual Magazine Reporting & Production. Her students publish the Spanish-language magazine DÍG EN ESPAÑOL. Puente has spent her career reporting on immigration and Latino issues in the U.S. and has also reported extensively from Mexico. Previously,…
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Robert A. Reeder
Robert A. Reeder has taught photojournalism as well as mentored graduate photojournalism students at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC. Prior to that he lived and worked in Amman, Jordan and in Chisinau, Moldova, photographing political struggles in the former Soviet state while also teaching at the Independent Journalism Center. He retired…
Read MoreRicki Rosen
Ricki Rosen is a news photographer and videographer who has worked professionally for more than 25 years. She was a contract photographer for Time magazine, and her work has been published in all major international publications including Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, People, Paris Match and Figaro. Rosen, who lives in Jerusalem with her…
Read MoreBruce Strong
Bruce Strong is the Alexia endowed chair and an associate professor of visual communications at Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. As a visual storyteller, he is inspired by a desire to bridge cultural divides and focus on our shared humanity, and he welcomes opportunities to work with great people on meaningful…
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Claudia Strong
In what has turned out to be a delightfully varied communications career, Claudia Strong began as a newspaper journalist after earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, then moved to the design side of the newsroom before eventually entering the freelance world. She’s now happily working at the corner…
Read MoreJack Zibluk
Jack Zibluk is a professor and head of the Communications Department at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. Jack was an ieiMedia Research Fellow in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2015, when he was a professor of mass media at Southeast Missouri State University. His professional journalism work has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, News Photographer magazine,…
Read MoreMaria Charbonneaux
Maria Charbonneaux is an assistant professor of practice and the Dotdash Meredith Professional in Residence in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. She teaches classes on reporting, writing, principles of journalism and the publishing industry, and she oversees Iowa State’s Dotdash Meredith Apprentice Program. She was a…
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Paula Nelson
Paula Nelson works with both graduate and undergraduate students guiding them to discover their creative potential and to emphasize intention in every aspect of still image making, editing, and sequencing – all elements of visual storytelling. Using a visual language that demonstrates a deep understanding of the power of each image singularly as well as…
Read MoreFrederick Lewis
Frederick Lewis is a Professor in the School of Media Arts & Studies at Ohio University, and a documentary filmmaker whose work has been seen on PBS stations throughout the U.S. and screened at more than 100 cultural/educational venues, including the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Civil Rights Museum…
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Anthony Adornato
Anthony C. Adornato joined the broadcast and digital journalism department in 2022 as an associate professor and department chair. His teaching and research focus on the role of mobile and social media in journalism. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Italy, he also teaches as a visiting scholar at IULM University in Milan. Prior to joining…
Read MoreSteve Anderson
Steve Anderson, Ph.D. (Urbino, Italy) is a professor emeritus in the School of Media Arts & Design at James Madison University. Prior to entering academe, Anderson was an environmental reporter and weathercaster for KCNC television, a network O&O station in Denver, Colorado. His reporting often involved in-depth examination of local and regional environmental issues and…
Read MoreNancy Andrews
Nancy Andrews was the Ogden Newspapers Visiting Professor in Media Innovation in the Reed College of Media at the University of West Virginia. Andrews joined the College in Fall 2015. Previously, she was the Chief of Innovation at the Detroit Free Press where she handled leading innovation in news, products and new models for journalism and…
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Kirill Artemenko
Kirill Artemenko is the founder of the company Paper Media and the editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Paperpaper.ru. He worked as a reporter of the news website Lenta.ru. He also cooperated with Spiegel Magazine and participated in several international workshops dedicated to new digital media. His research interest focus is on new media, politics, and…
Read MoreAsabi (Stephanie Howard)
Asabi (Stephanie Howard) is an associate professor of theatre at North Carolina Central University, where she serves as the chairperson of the Department of Theatre and Dance. She has received the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival directing award (2017 and 2015) and NCCU College of Liberal Arts Awards in Outstanding Teaching, Scholarship and Playwriting.…
Read MoreJeffrey Brody
Jeffrey Brody is an emeritus professor of Communications at State University, Fullerton. His teaching focuses on international journalism. He has taken students to Cambodia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Vietnam as well as Spain, where is directed the ieiMedia program in Valencia for five years. Brody teaches advanced writing classes, courses on mass communication and society,…
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Darcy Caputo
After graduating Darcy worked for various photography studios before focusing on print journalism, contributing writing and photography to Spokane, Wa alt weekly newspaper The Pacific Northwest Inlander and San Francisco’s XLR8R magazine. In 2007 he joined ieiMedia (The Institute for Education in International Media) as a lab technician for their study abroad programs in Cagli,…
Read MoreJames 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…
Read MoreCurt 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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Stacie Paulsen Chandler
Stacie Paulsen Chandler (Bologna Hip-Hop Director) is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She has been a police reporter and copy editor at the Colorado Springs (Colo.) Sun; the editor of special advertising sections and the director of the Newspapers in Education program at the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner; the Director…
Read MoreAshley 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…
Read MoreKay L. Colley
Kay L. Colley Ph.D. (multimedia faculty) is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Mass Communication at Texas Wesleyan University. She teaches public relations, social media and international communications courses. Previously, she taught journalism at Texas Wesleyan, the University of North Texas, Texas A&M and Blinn College. She holds multimedia and social media certificates…
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Jayne Cubbage
Jayne Cubbage, Ph.D., (multimedia faculty) is an assistant professor of communications at Bowie State University in Maryland, where she teaches in the graduate program in organizational communication. Prior to teaching, she had more than 20 years of experience in broadcast, print and multimedia journalism. She spent most of her career at news outlets in Philadelphia, where…
Read MoreDoug Cumming
Doug Cumming, Ph.D. 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…
Read MoreMary 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…
Read MoreMichael Dorsher
Michael Dorsher is an emeritus professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and president of the Fulbright Association-Minnesota Chapter. He was a Fulbright Scholar at McGill University in Montréal in 2008-09. Conversant in French and Spanish, he’s leading a team of journalism students on a multimedia, bilingual reporting trip to Peru in January 2012,…
Read MoreArielle Emmett
Arielle Emmett, Ph.D. comes to ieiMedia from the University of Hong Kong Journalism & Media Studies Centre (2013) and Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia on a Fulbright (2015) grant. Dr. Emmett completed her dissertation in the cognitive and aesthetic effects of news photography, and is a published newspaper and magazine feature writer with credits in Newsweek, The…
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Tammy Evans
Tammy L. Evans is an associate professor of graphic design at Winston-Salem State University. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and a BFA from Wayne State University. She taught editorial design in the 2015 ieiMedia Hip Hop program in Florence, Italy. Her professional work has included identity systems, signage and informational publications…
Read MoreMichael 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…
Read MoreEileen Gilligan
Eileen Gilligan, (Ph.D.) has taught journalism at the State University of New York at Oswego since 2005. A former political and statehouse reporter in Delaware, Dr. Gilligan regularly leads student trips to Paris where they study how media work in France. She enjoys freelancing for a local family magazine and hiking with her dog in the…
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Michael Gold
Michael Gold has been a writer, editor, and manager at award-winning publications, in print and online. He started his career as a reporter at the Bergen County (NJ) Record and the Boston Herald American. He was a founding writer and editor for Science 80, which won three National Magazine Awards while he was there. In 1986,…
Read MoreBeth Hoffman
Beth Hoffman is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches journalism, audio production and food media. She has reported on food and agriculture for more than 20 years, airing on NPR, The World, Latino USA and Living on Earth. She has a master’s degree from UC Berkeley's Graduate…
Read MoreSharon Kessler
Sharon Kessler (MPA) was a slot editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 2000 to 2010, which followed five years as a copy editor on the Metro and National desks at The Washington Post, two years as the proof desk deputy chief at U.S. News & World Report and two years as a copy editor at…
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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…
Read MoreRegina Krex
Regina Krex was born in a village near Berlin and is a veteran journalist who has covered the region from before the unification of Germany until the current day. She began by freelancing for the newspaper Neue Zeit, and the magazines Das Magazin and Für Dich mainly on arts and culture and women’s and family…
Read MoreKurt 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…
Read MoreLori 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…
Read MoreMicheal McAlexander
Micheal McAlexander is a university professor, feature film director and screenwriter. He has worked in entertainment-related positions for over twenty years including U.S. segment producer on several TV series for Japan’s NTV Network, writer/editor for feature electronic press kits, and managed a heavy metal band. McAlexander earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the…
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Gary Metzker
Gary Metzker has been a full-time lecturer at California State University, Long Beach, since 2008 and serves as design adviser for the Pinnacle and Pacemaker award-winning Daily 49er and DIG Magazine. For almost 25 years, he worked at the Los Angeles Times as sports news editor, metro news editor, A-1 editor and senior editor. During that time, Metzker…
Read MoreKristina Morehouse
Kris Morehouse graduated with honors with an MS in Journalism from the University of Kansas, one of the top journalism schools in the country. Her previous degrees include a BS in biology from the University of Missouri – Columbia and a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri – Kansas…
Read MoreLisa A. Phillips
Lisa A. Phillips is an associate professor of journalism and department chair at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she teaches courses on literary journalism, feature writing, radio journalism and multimedia reporting. A former award-winning radio reporter, she has collaborated on multimedia reporting projects for The New York Times and other news outlets. As…
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Penchan Phoborisut
Dr. Penchan Phoborisut teaches digital reporting and communication technologies. Her research examines the visualization of social movements and activism in the digital era, particularly in the networked communication. She examines the visuals forms of political expressions, analyzing the emerging rhetoric, the changing dynamic of the young generation, and the communication of their political life. Her…
Read MoreDouglas 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…
Read MoreJessica Retis
Jessica Retis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Affiliated Faculty with the Center for Latin American Studies and the Human Rights Practice Program at The University of Arizona. Dr. Retis joined the school in 2019 to help launch and lead the first Masters in Bilingual Journalism. She holds a Major in Communications…
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John Thomas Rose
John Thomas Rose is a photographer and educator based in Southern California. For ten years he’s been the staff adviser to the student newspaper at Santa Barbara City College, The Channels. Working alongside the faculty adviser he oversees journalism, photography and video students working on the online student news site. Rose spent 7 weeks in…
Read MoreBruno Segatta
Bruno has practiced the study and mastery of art since earning his degree from Northridge University in 1982. A native Italian, Bruno is fluent in several languages. In the autumn of 1982, Bruno began his tenure at Gonzaga University in Florence, Italy as Assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs. Here he instructed painting, drawing,…
Read MoreDavid 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…
Read MoreLeah Stacy
Leah Stacy is an assistant professor in professional practice at Nazareth College and has worked as an arts journalist and entrepreneur. She started her career in Rochester, N.Y., as a web editor for the Democrat and Chronicle, then earned a master’s degree at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she focused on learning video,…
Read MoreVanessa 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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Ricardo Valencia
Ricardo Valencia is an assistant professor of public relations in the Department of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Valencia is a seasoned global communicator and scholar. He obtained a doctoral degree in Media Studies at the University of Oregon in 2018.Between 2010 and 2014, Dr. Valencia was the head of the communication section…
Read MoreDavid Wang
David Wang is an Associate Professor at James Madison University. With more than twenty years of industry experience, he has worked as an art director, photographer, and interactive developer in advertising, business-to-business communications, and higher education. He teaches foundation courses in SMAD with an emphasis on creative process and interactive media.
Read MorePeter Wayner
Peter Wayner is a videographer and writer from Rochester, New York. He grew up hearing stories from his grandfather, a World War II vet who farmed through the Great Depression. In college, and during his tenure at grad school at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Pete began cultivating his own storytelling style. Journalistic storytelling…
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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…
Read MoreSteve Weiss
Steve Weiss is an award winning television anchor, reporter and producer of local and network television sports and news programming who utilizes his experience professionally and in the classroom. Weiss has enjoyed a distinguished broadcasting career of 25+ years as a program producer, host, and analyst for ESPN, TNN, FOX Prime Sports, Outdoor Channel and…
Read MoreSusan West
Susan West is a principal at West Gold Editorial consulting, where she has helped launch magazines such as Dwell, trained online editors at websites such as BabyCenter, and advised publications from the New England Journal of Medicine to Cooking Light and Acoustic Guitar. With an M.S. in science journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia,…
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Brenda Witherspoon
Brenda Witherspoon is a teaching professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Her early career included daily news work as a reporter and editor, including at The Dallas Morning News and the Des Moines Register, among others. She lived in New Zealand while studying newspapers’ portrayals…
Read MorePawel 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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