INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM: FACULTY
The International Journalism Program features faculty with decades of experience reporting from Europe, Latin America and
the Middle East. Meet the faculty members teaching in the International Journalism Program.
Alan Weisman
is the faculty member concentrating on Latin America who leads students
on trips each year to a different Latin American country. He is the author of The World Without Us, a bestseller translated
into 30 languages that was named the best nonfiction book of 2007 by both Time magazine
and Entertainment Weekly. Weisman's reports from around the world have appeared in
The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, the Los Angeles Times Magazine and
Harper's. He is a senior producer for Homelands Productiona, whose work airs on National
Public Radio, Public Radio International and American Public Media.
Maggy Zanger focuses on Middle East journalism,
specifically on analyzing media coverage of international crises.
She was the in-country director of the Institute for War
and Peace Reporting in Iraq. The institute, supported by international human rights
organizations, trains Iraqi journalists who want to work for independent news media.
Professor Zanger previously was a faculty member at the American University in Cairo,
and the director of the publications program of the Center for Contemporary Arab
Studies at Georgetown University.
Zanger has developed a new focus for the Journalism School's News Analysis course, which will emphasize news coverage of wars and humanitarian crises in the Middle East. Classes are open to all undergraduate and graduate students in the Journalism, Latin American Studies and Near Eastern Studies programs. Zanger also is the faculty adviser to El Independiente, the student-produced newspaper that serves the city of South Tucson and the only bilingual newspaper in the country that is produced by students in a real community on a regular basis. In addition to covering South Tucson, students are tackling issues affecting southern Arizonans living along the U.S.-Mexico border, some 70 miles from the University.
Mort Rosenblum teaches an International Reporting course every winter
in the journalism school as a professional-in-residence. He left the Arizona Daily Star
to join The Associated Press in 1965. Since then, he has reported on peace and war from 200 countries,
eventually becoming the AP's chief international foreign correspondent. From 1979 to 1981 was editor of the
International Herald Tribune. He left AP in 2004 and is now a founding editor of dispatches, a new
quarterly on world affairs. Rosenblum has written a series of books about U.S. press coverage of international
affairs, as well as books about political and economic issues in Africa and France. His latest book is
Escaping Plato's Cave: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival. Rosenblum
has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize eight times, and has won a major award from the Overseas Press Club.
Several other faculty members in the School of Journalism also have extensive experience in international journalism.
Shahira Fahmy has taught she taught courses on international communication and media issues, research methods and multimedia publication design. She has traveled to more than 20 countries and is fluent in four languages, skills that enabled Fahmy to conduct surveys with embedded reporters worldwide and to conduct surveys of audiences of Al-Jazeera in 67 countries. Her research interests primarily focus on visual communication with an international perspective, as well as political communication and media performance during wartime.
Celeste González de Bustamante worked as an anchor, reporter, and producer in commercial and public television for 16 years before joining the journalism school. She has more than a decade of experience reporting on issues related to the U.S.-Mexico border. Her current research includes news and media analysis in both Mexico and Brazil.
Kim Newton has 26 years' experience in photojournalism, beginning as a freelance photojournalist based in Tokyo and Seoul. Newton worked for Reuters News Pictures in London as picture editor for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He also was senior photo editor for international news at Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service in Washington, D.C.
Jeannine Relly has reported from the United States, the Caribbean and Mexico on politics, business, the environment, criminal justice, human trafficking and other social issues. Her research focuses on access-to-information policies in the United States and other countries.