PEOPLE: MARGARET ZANGER

Margaret E. Zanger
Office - Marshall 334
Telephone - 621-7556
E-mail - zanger@email.arizona.edu

Maggy Zanger has worked as a journalist since 1984 and was most recently Iraq training director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, a London-based organization. She established centers in Baghdad and Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, to train Iraqi journalists who want to work for independent news media.

Zanger taught reporting, editing and publication design in the department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, from 1999 to 2003. While there she conducted research concerning the development of the Kurdish news media in northern Iraq, and assisted in the development of a diploma program in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies. She has given numerous speeches concerning issues relating to the internally displaced populations in Iraq, and Kurdish relations with Iraq and neighboring countries.

Zanger's publication, "Of Journalists and Dogs: Tales from the Northern Behind," is a chapter in Global Media Go to War (Marquette Books, 2004). It details the experiences of journalists covering the 2003 war in Iraq.

Zanger has a master's degree in law from Yale Law School and a master's in journalism from the University of Arizona.