Mitch Stephens

Mitchell Stephens is the author of A History of News, an extended history of journalism that has been translated into four languages and was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." His latest book, The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word, is a historical analysis of our current communications revolution and was published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Stephens is also the author of Broadcast News, the most widely used radio and television news textbook, and the co-author of Writing and Reporting the News. In recent years, he has written numerous articles on media issues and aspects of contemporary thought for publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Professor Stephens recently completed a trip around the world during which he reported on globalization for the public radio program "Marketplace" and the webzine Feed. He also wrote essays on travel for LonelyPlanet.com. His commentaries have aired on National Public Radio's "On the Media." Professor Stephens also has been a consultant to the Newseum.

Chris Harper

Christopher Harper is the Roy H. Park Distinguished Chair of Communications at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He worked for more than 20 years for a variety of media outlets, including the Associated Press (Chicago), Newsweek (Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Beirut) and ABC News and ABC 20/20 (Cairo, Rome and New York). He has written four books on digital journalism and mass communications. Harper served as a Fulbright senior scholar in 2001 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, and has lectured in Japan and Israel.

Marcia Rock

Marcia Rock is the director of the graduate program in broadcast journalism at NYU. She has produced a number of documentaries, including Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories. The documentary won multiple awards, among them the American Women in Radio and Television Grand Award and Documentary Award and The Association of Women Journalists, Vivian Castleberry Award for Television. It has been shown at numerous festivals and has aired in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain, Canada and on PBS stations throughout the United States. Professor Rock's latest documentary is Dancing with My Father, an intimate look at marriage, divorce and how adult love is shaped by what a child learns at home. In 1998, she produced Back from Beyond: Women Abuse and Drugs, profiling a new drug treatment program specifically designed for women addicts. In 1994, she produced City Originals: Women Making It Work. Rock has produced three major documentaries on Ireland and Irish Americans: Sons of Derry (1992), No Irish Need Apply (1993) and McSorley's New York, which won a New York Emmy in 1987. She also won an Emmy for The Singing Angels in China, a chronicle of a Cleveland youth choir's trip to China in 1983. Professor Rock is the co-author with Marlene Sanders of Waiting for Prime Time: The Women of Television News (1988).

Adrian Mihai

Adrian Mihai, the broadcast coordinator of NYU's Department of Journalism, is a freelance videographer, independent producer and multi-media designer. He produced and directed several documentaries, E Pluribus Unum (1994), a film that investigates the spiritual milieu of first generation immigrants from Romania as they become integrated into the various folds of the American society. Someone Has Killed The Sphinx (1995), is a film that offers an analysis of Romanian social realities after the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship--as seen through the staging of Oedipus at the Romanian National Opera House, Crossroads (1998) looks at Columbia University's Graduate Acting Program, which was created and steered by renowned Romanian-American director Andrei Serban, E Biagoresqo Drom / The Endless Journey is a documentary about the Rroma/Gypsy communities of Romania. Professor Mihai works as a freelance cameraman for various news organizations, such Bloomberg, BBC America, Austrian TV and CNN. Since 1996, he has taught undergraduates and graduates in "Electronic News Gathering."

Alla Bespalova

Alla Bespalova graduated from Rostov State University in 1979. She finished post-graduate studies in 1992 with a doctorate degree in journalism. She presented and defended her thesis "The Formation and the Development of Domestic Audio-Verbal Mass Media" in Rostov State University under the supervision of Professor Evgeny Kornilov.

Since 1979 she has worked as a teaching assistant, lecturer and assistant professor of the Department of History of Journalism of the School of Philology and Journalism. She serves as head of the Department of International Journalism.

Professor Bespalova has extensive experience with New York University and Dortmund University. After training at NYU, she created a course "Reporting" based on American journalism education for the students of the Department of International Journalism. Also, she created courses "Empirical Research of the Modern Russian Press " and "Skill of the Domestic Publicists." She is also the organizer and executive director of a joint project with Dortmund University.

Alexander Korochensky

Alexander Korochensky teaches journalism at Rostov State University. He is the author of the monographs: The Fifth Estate?; The Phenomenon of Media Criticism in the Context of Content Market; Ethics of Journalism: the Foreign Experience; The Journalism of Jose Marti; and co-author of the monograph The History of World Journalism. Professor Korochensky has served as visiting lecturer and researcher at Schools of Journalism of La Universidad de La Habana (Cuba), Silesian University (Poland) and New York University.

Vitaly Vinichenko

Vitaly Vinichenko received his master's degree in journalism from the School of Philology and Journalism at Rostov State University and was awarded his doctorate in journalism in 1995 for research devoted to the history of the International Herald Tribune. He serves as the deputy to the dean of the School of Philology and Journalism for information technologies.

Julia Savenkova

Julia Savenkova is a post-graduate student at Rostov State University in the School of Philology and Journalism. She is the managing editor of "Kaktus," a weekly magazine devoted to arts, culture, entertainment, and politics for young people. In 2003 she traveled to Ithaca College to study print journalism and teaching methods.

Svetlana Shelest

Svetlana Shelest graduated in 1997 from Rostov State Univeristy in the Department of Foreign Languages of the School of Philology and Journalism, where she majored in English and German. Since graduation she has been employed as an English language teacher in the same department. She has been involved in intercultural exchange programs and activities run by the department and faculty in the fields of philology and journalism. In 2003 she successfully completed a semester training at the Roy H. Park School of Communications of Ithaca College. Upon returning to Rostov she has been involved in preparation and running the Russian-American Journalism Institute as an instructor and assistant to senior faculty.

Roman Chernov

Roman Chernov graduated from Rostov State Pedagogical University in 2001 with a master's degree in linguistics in English and German. Chernov is currently doing post-graduate studies in the Department of History of Journalism of the School of Philology and Journalism of Rostov State University. His dissertation will focus on the analysis of periodicals concerning teaching English as a second language. He was one of five instructors who studied at Ithaca College in the spring semester of 2003. Chenov works as a teacher in the School of Philology and Journalism at RSU.

Artem Eremenko

Artem Eremenko is a post-graduate student in the School of Philology and Journalism of Rostov State University. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at RSU. He serves as editor of the real estate section of the newspaper Vse dlya Vas. He also works as a researcher on pre-election campaign techniques and data analysis in the spheres of politics and business.

Anna Kapustina

Anna Kapustina received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Rostov State University in the School of Philology and Journalism. In 2002 she entered post-graduate study at the university. She has worked at several local newspapers, including Izvestia Yug, Donskaya Panorama and Gorod N and as a freelance correspondent at the local television station, The 38th Channel, in the advertising department.