MULTIMEDIA REPORTING FACULTY
Reporting
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 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 taught reporting in Urbino in 2011 and 2012.
Contacts and Information
Email: cummingd@wlu.edu
Web: http://journalism.wlu.edu/faculty/cumming.html
Blog: http://docurbino.wordpress.com
Ron Hollander has a career divided between teaching and practicing journalism. He has directed and is a professor in the journalism program at Montclair State University (NJ) where he twice won best newspaper adviser from College Media Advisers. Ron had a Fulbright for two years in Beijing where he taught, and wrote for China Daily. He also directs Jewish American Studies, and teaches on the Holocaust and the Press. He won awards reporting for Cablevision TV, and wrote for “CBS This Morning” news anchors including Charles Osgood, Charlie Rose, Bob Schieffer, and Diane Sawyer. He’s been staff reporter on papers from Alaska to Mississippi, including Newsday and NY Post, and had a Knight Fellowship at the Baltimore Sun. Ron was contributing editor at Town & Country, and a travel writer for the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times and SF Chronicle, among others. His book, “All Aboard!” (Workman) was #61 on Amazon, and he’s appeared with Oprah and Tom Snyder.
Bob Marshall is the veteran reporter, feature writer and columnist whose work at The Times-Picayune has earned two Pulitzer Prizes. He was co-author of the series “Oceans of Trouble: Are the World’s Fisheries Doomed?” which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service from the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2006 Marshall’s investigations into the engineering missteps that led to the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina were among the stories for which the newspaper was honored with The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In 2007 Marshall was co-author of the series “Last Chance: The Fight to Save a Disappearing Coast,” about Louisiana’s coastal erosion problems, which won the 2007 John H. Oakes Prize for Environmental Reporting from Columbia University, and The National Academies of Sciences Communications Award for newspaper and magazine reporting. Marshall’s wide-ranging career has included covering professional and college sports, Olympics, and the outdoors beat, as well as working on special environmental projects. In addition to his newspaper work, Marshall’s professional credits include writing for Field & Stream Magazine,Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure. He taught reporting in Cagli in 2008 and taught in Urbino in both 2009, 2011 and 2012.
Contacts and Information
Email: b.marshall@cox.net
Web: http://blog.nola.com/outdoors/about.html
Photography
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 left to become a White House photographer documenting the Presidency for the last year of the Reagan administration and all four years of the George H.W. Bush administration. She began working for the Washington Post in 1996. Prior to that she freelanced and her work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Life, National Geographic and other publications worldwide. She has participated in various book projects including Day in the Life of America, Day in the Life of Thailand, Hong Kong – Here Be Dragons, Day in the Life of the American Woman and America at Home. She has won awards with White House News Photographers Association and National Press Photographers Association.
Dennis Chamberlin is an assistant professor of journalism at Iowa State University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist. He 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 and National Geographic. Most of his professional career was spent living in Eastern Europe, where he covered the fall of communism and reintegration of Europe for various publications over a 15-year period. He has spent most of his life shooting slide film but is now a strong advocate of the power of multimedia as a storytelling tool and focuses his own work and teaching on multimedia. Chamberlin taught photography in Urbino in 2009. He directed the multimedia program and taught photography in Urbino in 2011 and 2012.
Contacts and Information
Email: dennisch@iastate.edu
Web: http://www.jlmc.iastate.edu/faculty/chamberlin.shtml
Pawel Wyszomirski 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 and Germany. Over the past few years he has coordinated and taught at several photography workshops and courses for students from Poland, the United States and Scandinavia. Pawel interned at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s premier national newspaper, and currently teaches photojournalism and documentary photography at the Sopot School of Photography. He taught photography in Urbino in 2011 and 2012.
Contacts and Information
Email: pawel.wyszomirski.mail@gmail.com
Blog: http://www.pawelwyszomirski.blogspot.com
Video & Web
Steven D. Anderson, Ph.D. is a professor of converged media and the director of the School of Media Arts & Design at James Madison University. Prior to entering academe, Anderson was the environmental reporter and weekend weathercaster for KCNC television, a network O&O station in Denver, Colorado. He also worked as a news photographer, weathercaster and news reporter at stations in Fresno, California and Fargo, North Dakota. He is an author of a textbook entitled “Exploring Electronic Media: Chronicles & Challenges” (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing). His websites have won top awards from the Broadcast Education Association (BEA Best of Festival) and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) (Best of the Web Competition). Anderson is a former President of the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), the association for electronic media professors and industry professionals. He taught video and created the websites for the Urbino Project in 2011 and 2012.
Contacts and Information
Email: anderssd@jmu.edu
Web: http://smad.jmu.edu/anderson.html
Video
Greg Luft is chair of the Journalism and Technical Communication department at Colorado State University. He has a diverse career as a television news reporter and anchor; documentary, educational, and corporate video producer; freelance video journalist; teacher, and academic administrator. Luft began his career in local TV news as a general assignment and investigative reporter, and news anchor while working at television stations in Wyoming, Florida, Oklahoma and Colorado. He also became an independent producer and freelance photojournalist. Luft has worked for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, and Discovery networks, among others. His documentaries, and educational programs focusing on television writing, editing and photography, as well as journalistic behavior, have earned top awards from the Associated Press, Broadcast Education Association, National Council on Christians and Jews, and the Florida Bar Association, among others. These programs are used in classrooms at hundreds of colleges and universities worldwide. Luft also has served in leadership roles for the Broadcast Education Association, College Media Advisors, and the Colorado Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
MAGAZINE FACULTY
Reporting & Writing
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, Gold co-founded Hippocrates, now called Health, where he served as managing editor and executive editor. As a consultant for West Gold Editorial, he helped conceive and launch University Business and Dwell magazines as well as Thrive, an online health network produced by Time, Inc. and AOL. Gold has consulted for Inc, PC World, Consumer Reports, Executive Travel, and others, offering management advice, guiding major renovations, and coaching editorial staff. He has served as the editor of Strings magazine, edited several jazz arranging books for Berklee Press, and helped lead the magazine launch projects and online track for the Stanford Professional Publishing Courses. He is the author of A Conspiracy of Cells, a popular, nonfiction account of a scandal in cancer research. He taught in the 2011 and 2012 magazine programs in Urbino.
Email: michael@westgoldeditorial.com
Web: westgoldeditorial.com
Blog: ContentWise
Susan West thought she was going to be a scientist but changed her mind when she found out there was such a thing as science journalism. Her science reporting took her from Mount St Helens to the South Pole, included the first national magazine story on AIDS, and led her to co-founding Health magazine, now owned by Time Inc. Susan’s work at Health earned numerous national and regional awards, including four National Magazine Awards. These days, Susan (along with husband and fellow ieiMedia instructor Michael Gold) runs a publishing consulting with clients such as Dwell, BabyCenter, WebMD, and Discovery.com. She’s also been the executive editor of Smithsonian and the founding editor of travel magazine Afar, which in 2010 won the “Oscar” of travel journalism for the issues she edited. In a return to her science-y roots, Susan now serves on the editorial board of the Food and Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that produces investigative stories on food, agriculture, and the environment. When she’s not working on new publishing models, Susan is making photographs, mosaics, or artists’ books. Or studying Italian. She directed the 2011 and 2012 magazine programs in Urbino.
Email: susan@westgoldeditorial.com
Web: westgoldeditorial.com
Blog: ContentWise
Design
Bob Ciano has been Art Director or Creative Director of many publications, including Esquire, Redbook, Life Magazine, The New York Times, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Industry Standard, ForbesASAP and Wired Magazine. Along the way he has worked with prominent illustrators, photographers, and writers and has won over 200 design awards. Bob is currently the Creative Director at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, CA. He teaches at CCA (California College of the Arts) in San Francisco. He has also taught at SVA (School of Visual Arts) in NYC, Kansas University, The Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley and the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. Bob taught in Urbino’s 2012 magazine program.
ITALIAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE FACULTY
Francesca Carducci 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 Computer Science and teaches in the English master’s program for Italian primary school teachers offered by the Department of Foreign Languages. Fran is originally from Buffalo, New York, and became interested in content-based teaching methodology as a consequence of her scientific background. She has revised and edited scientific articles to be published in English for years, and has created science and math courses in English for Italian students at almost every level. Francesca truly enjoys teaching both on-line and in the classroom and, after more than 20 years of living and working in Urbino, considers herself a bona fide “Urbinate.” She taught Italian language and supervised interpreters in Urbino in 2012, as she did in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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