Morocco: Field Studies in Journalism and New Media

This program is directed by Mary Stucky, a veteran journalist from the US who is also president of Round Earth Media, a US-based NGO actively engaged in reinventing journalism by pairing veteran journalists with aspiring reporters to bring stories from places traditional newsrooms seldom visit. Mary Stucky will work in close collaboration with journalists from Morocco, Round Earth Media, and Poynter Institute to facilitate students’ access to a wider scope of local and international veteran journalists. Instruction will be supplemented by a hand-picked team of scholars that will include university professors, researchers, NGO leaders, and subject-area experts from the community.

Mary Stucky
A founder of Round Earth Media, Mary Stucky is the company’s lead journalist and its president. She has broad media experience as a long-time contributor to public and commercial radio and television, notably: National Public Radio, Public Radio International and America Public Media (e.g., Marketplace, The World, All Things Considered), CBS Radio, FRONTLINE/World, NBC-TV and ABC-TV affiliates, Telemundo, and Univision. Stucky covers social and cultural issues, foreign affairs, public policy, the environment and immigration, with a focus on under-reported issues in neglected regions of the world.

Her reports on Chinese and Hmong immigrants were part of the documentary series “Crossing East,” which won a 2006 Peabody Award, broadcasting’s highest honor. Her reporting awards also include the New York Festival’s Gold World Medal. Prior to founding Round Earth, Stucky was a reporter/anchor for the NBC-TV affiliate in Minneapolis. She is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Mary Stucky started the Field Studies in Journalism and New Media program in Spring 2012.

Said Graiouid, PhD, Program Academic Coordinator
Said Graiouid is SIT Study Abroad’s academic dean for North Africa and the Middle East and head of the Research Group of Migration and Culture at University Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat. He has an MA (1989) in comparative literature and critical theory from University Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco, and a PhD (2000) in communication and cultural studies from the School of Performing Arts, University of Surrey, UK. From 1992 to 1996, he had a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Radio-Television-Film Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

Since 1986, Dr. Graiouid has served as an assistant professor and then full professor of communication and cultural studies at University Mohammed V-Agdal, where he has designed, coordinated, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural studies, communication, migration, postcolonial theory, and media studies. He was also a founding faculty of the Communication Studies Program at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, and the Institute for Language and Communication Studies in Rabat. Dr. Graiouid is the general editor of Langues et Littératures, University Mohammed V-Agdal's journal in the humanities and social sciences.

Dr. Graiouid's most recent book is Communication and Everyday Performance: Public Space and the Public Sphere in Morocco (2011).