Biography
Maggy Zanger is a professor of practice at the University of Arizona School of Journalism and an affiliated faculty member of the UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Her teaching and research focuses on international journalism and the Middle East in particular, with an emphasis on Iraq, the Kurds and crises reporting. She was project director of a three-year partnership project with Nangarhar University in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to assist in developing a new journalism department, funded by the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
Degrees
- M.A. Law
- Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
- M.A. Journalism
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- Sob Sister Journalism
Work Experience
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2005 - Ongoing)
- Institute for War & Peace Reporting (2003 - 2005)
- American University in Cairo (1999 - 2003)
- Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (1995 - 1999)
Awards
- Excellence in Global Service Award
- UA Global Initiatives and the UA Center for English as a Second Language, Fall 2015
- Dow Jones Multimedia Training Academy
- Dow Jones Multimedia Training Academy at University of Texas, El Paso. The intensive training for 12 instructors at Hispanic serving universities focused on developing video and audio skills for classroom use., Spring 2013
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
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Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- Zanger, M. E. (2016). The enigma of news media development with multi-pronged “capture”: The Afghanistan case.. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.
- Relly, J. E., Zanger, M. E., & Fahmy, S. (2014). Professional role perceptions among Iraqi Kurdish journalists from a 'state within a state.'. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.
- Relly, J. E., Zanger, M. E., & Fahmy, S. (2015). Democratic norms and forces of gatekeeping: A study of influences on Iraqi journalists’ attitudes toward government information access.. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
- Relly, J. E., Zanger, M. E., & Fahmy, S. (2015). News media landscape in a fragile state: Professional ethics perceptions in a post-Ba'athist Iraq. Mass Communication and Society.
Presentations
- Zanger, M. E., & Relly, J. E. (2018, My). ISIS, tradition and oil as forms of ‘capture’: The impact of violence, politics, culture and economic crisis on journalists in Kurdistan Iraq. International Communication Association Annual Conference. Prague, Czech Republic: International Communication Association.
- Zanger, M. E., Fahmy, S. S., & Relly, J. E. (2013, August). Journalists’ perceptions of professional ethics norms in post-Ba’athist Iraq. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference. Washington, DC: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, International Communication Division.
- Zanger, M. E., Fahmy, S. S., & Relly, J. E. (2013, June). Democratic norms and social learning: A study of influences on Iraqi journalists' attitudes toward information access. International Communication Association Annual Conference. London, England: International Communication Association Annual Conference, Political Communication Division.
