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…
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Steve 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…
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Nancy 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…
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Asabi (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.…
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Jeffrey 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,…
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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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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…
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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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Kay 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…
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Doug 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…
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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 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,…
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Arielle 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…
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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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Eileen 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,…
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Beth 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…
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Sharon 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…
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Regina 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…
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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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Micheal 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…
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Kristina 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…
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Lisa 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…
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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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Jessica 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…
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Bruno 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,…
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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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Leah 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,…
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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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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…
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David 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.
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Peter 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…
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Steve 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…
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Susan 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…
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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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