Margo Berman
Margo Berman, M.M. associate professor, has received many international awards as a writer/director. She has written for business publications and held corporate training seminars. A past president of the Miami chapter of Women in Communications, Inc., she was named Chapter Headliner and Outstanding National Faculty Advisor of the Year. More...

Frederick Blevens
Frederick Blevens holds the BA and MA in journalism from Ball State University and the Ph.D. from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. For 20 years, he was a reporter, copy editor and senior editor at metropolitan newspapers, including the Philadelphia Bulletin, Camden Courier-Post, San Antonio Light, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Houston Chronicle. Dr. Blevens has taught at Ball State, Texas A&M University and Southwest Texas State University. From 2002 to 2006, he served as professor and associate dean in the Gaylord College at the University of Oklahoma, where he founded the Oklahoma Institute for Diversity in Journalism. He currently is professor and associate dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University. His teaching areas include newswriting, editing, information gathering, law and ethics. In 2001, he was recognized as a national Teacher of the Year by the Freedom Forum.

 

Lilliam Martinez Bustos
Lilliam Martinez-Bustos, associate professor, broadcast journalism. Coordinator of the FIU Spanish-language Master's Program in Journalism. She joined FIU this year after spending more than two decades as a broadcast journalist in English-language and Spanish-language television. She worked as a producer in the Washington, D.C. bureaus of the NBC-Telemundo and Univision networks. She's also worked at local affiliates of PBS, CBS and ABC in Boston. In Miami, she was an executive producer with CBS-Telenoticias network. She earned a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico and an M.A. at the University of Southern California. She was a fellow at USC's Center for International Journalism in 1992-93.

Yolanda Cal
Yolanda Cal, Ph. D, assistant professor, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in advertising and public relations. Her research interests are in the areas of interpersonal influences on consumer behavior and cross-cultural consumer behavior. Her current projects investigate how individuals’ cultural backgrounds are formed and how they influence their behavior in the marketplace and subsequently influence others. She earned a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Texas at Austin.

Bert Delgado
Bert Delgado, M.A, associate professor, studied film and TV production and directing in Rome and worked in television in New York and Miami. He has received several awards from the industry as well the FIU Excellence in Advising Award in 1993, Excellence in Teaching Award in 1994, Excellence in Service Award in 1995 and the Teacher Incentive Program Award from the State of Florida.

Mario Diament
Mario Diament, M.A. associate professor, born in Argentina, is a veteran foreign correspondent and a former executive editor of one of the leading newspapers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Has been appointed to the National Academy of Journalism, Argentina's most professional academy, which is composed of 40 permanent members appointed for life. Diament is also a playwright and has had plays produced in the U.S. and abroad.

Lynne Farber
Lynne Farber, MA, visiting assistant professor, worked in the public relations field in South Florida for more than 25 years. During that time, she received several national awards for multi-media ad campaigns, oversaw state- wide marketing efforts and occasionally lectured to national conferences. She taught journalism and communications at the community college level. More...

Gregg Fields
Gregg Fields, M.S., associate professor, is directing FIU’s new Master of Science in Business Journalism. Fields has spent his entire career as a business journalist, most of it at The Miami Herald, where he has worked for nearly 20 years, with prior stints at The Cincinnati Enquirer and an internship at The Wall Street Journal. Fields is fresh back from earning a Master of Science in Financial Journalism at Columbia University, after the school selected him a Knight-Bagehot Fellow, a one-year program that splits coursework between the journalism and business schools there. He also has an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where his studies focused on public policy economics. Fields lives in a historic district in northeast Miami and is a former president of the Miami Beach Rowing Club.

 

Fernando Figueredo
Fernando Figueredo, APR, interim chair, is a recognized expert in the field of strategic communications at the national and international level. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from FIU with emphasis on marketing communications. Prior to joining the FIU faculty, he was a partner with Porter Novelli International, a global public relations agency, where he was the Managing Director for the network of agencies in Latin America.

 

Rosanna Fiske
Rosanna Fiske, associate professor, is the first Hispanic woman named president of PRSA Miami and a three-year member of PRSA’s national board of directors. Fiske received the 2002 D. Parke Gibson Pioneer Award – the nation’s highest individual honor in multicultural communications. She’s also received two Silver Anvils and a CIPRA award for work in consumer marketing communications. Fiske holds a master of science in mass communication and a bachelor of science in journalism. Prior to joining the SJMC faculty, she was partner and senior counsel at Communiqué Group, a Miami-based public relations, public affairs, and advertising firm with national and international clients.

 

Hugh Gladwin
Hugh Gladwin, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Public Opinion Research (IPOR), has more than 20 years experience directing survey research projects for FIU, government at all levels and the private sector. IPOR's FIU/Florida Poll and Cuba Poll are nationally recognized. He has been active in hurricane research since Andrew in 1992, participating in four NSF grants among other projects and publications, and is an expert in the use of survey research and GIS tools to study regional issues in settings of high cultural and demographic diversity.

Ann Reeder Goraczko
Ann Reeder Goraczko, M.A., M.S.Ed., associate director, IPOR, has more than 20 years of administrative experience at Florida International University. She has served in the capacity of field director of IPOR since December, 1996, and has supervised the FIU/Florida Poll, the Cuba Poll and all other IPOR surveys since joining the staff. She has conducted research on the influence of religious participation on the civic engagement of children of immigrants in South Florida. Her current research interest is medicine and spirituality.

Juliet Pinto
Juliet Pinto, Ph.D., assistant professor, teaches undergraduate writing strategies courses. Her major field of interest is media and democratization processes in Latin America, and she focused her dissertation on changes in Argentinean news content. Other research interests include ongoing projects dealing with Hispanics and media use, as well as community media and environmental reporting in Latin America. A member of the Beta Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Lambda honor society, Dr. Gill has received awards in research and doctoral student achievement. She earned her Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Miami.

Teresa Ponte
Teresa Ponte, associate professor, teaches broadcast journalism. Before joining the FIU faculty in 1999, she was a producer for NBC News, CBS News and Telemundo Network. She has received several awards, including a national Emmy in 1996, and has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1981

Allan Richards
Allan Richards, M.A., chair, journalism and broadcasting, collaborated with The New York Times and inaugurated the first New York Times Hispanic Student Journalism Institute at the SJMC. He also developed the SJMC's computerized language skills testing and teaching program with a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and the SJMC's Writing Center with a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation. Mr. Richards teaches multimedia journalism and was chosen as a judge for the 2007 National Journalism Awards. He began his career as a music journalist in New York.

Michael Scott Sheerin
Michael Scott Sheerin, M.S., assistant dean of technology, assistant professor and a professional in the broadcast and new media industry for the past 18 years, has developed interactive TV prototypes for Disney and has worked as a designer, animator, art director, creative director, commercial director and producer for such clients as ABC, U.S. Armed Forces, DirecTV, J. Walter Thompson and Nickelodeon. He currently sits on the board of the AICP. More...

Lorna Veraldi
Lorna Veraldi, J.D. associate professor, worked for 12 years in radio and television before joining the FIU faculty in 1988. She was a news writer, producer and reporter. Admitted to the New York Bar in 1982 and a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, she has represented media clients both as corporate counsel and in private law practice.

Mercedes Vigon
Mercedes Vigon, Ph.D., associate director of the International Media Center, and associate professor, is a native of Spain. She trained journalists in Mexico, Nicaragua and Paraguay and also worked as a TV news director for Net Financial News. She was an executive producer and international writer for CBS Telenoticias and a journalist with UPI. She is fluent in Spanish, French and English.

Maria Elena Villar
Maria Elena Villar, is an Assistant Professor in the department of advertising and public relations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Columbia University, a master’s degree in public health from the University of Miami, and will receive her Ph. D. from the University of Miami’s School of Communication in the fall of 2007. Before joining the SJMC, she led her own consulting firm and supervised research programs at NOVA Southeastern University and the University of Miami School of Medicine.