Profiles

Richelle Rogers

About

Richelle Rogers is an award-winning network TV news and documentary producer, directs the Master’s in Digital Media and Storytelling program at Loyola’s School of Communication and won a prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award to teach students in the Republic of Georgia to convey compelling stories using the most engaging digital tools on the market.

At her home base in Chicago, her courses and guidance have launched graduate students into high-profile multimedia careers. In 2023, one of her distinguished students won First Place and Best of Festival from the Broadcast Education Association.

Ms. Rogers is a sought-after international presenter on cutting-edge content and teaching techniques in digital media.  Her academic consulting experience has resulted in the accreditation of two new digital media graduate programs at Georgian universities. She has expanded that consulting to 20 universities in the Eurasian nation of Georgia, where department heads revitalized their programs to incorporate these new ideas and strategies.

• Funded by grants from the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, Ms. Rogers:
• Collaborated with Adjara TV to produce five substantive, feature-length stories on Georgia-U.S. military relations in 2024,
• Collaborated with Formula TV to produce five stories spanning the war in Ukraine to the pandemic in 2022, and
• Hosted numerous international news and talk show journalists on educational tours to national and local television outlets in the United States.

In academia, Professor Rogers has distinguished herself by emphasizing experiential learning and coaching her students to produce compelling projects that have earned local and national awards and media attention. Her upcoming course on St. Ignatius of Loyola is developed through a grant from the Hank Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage and will engage students in a multimedia project designed to improve their understanding of his life and legacy.

Ms. Rogers is the recipient of many distinguished journalism awards for her individual work and team producing/reporting. They include the Columbia University DuPont Award (ABC News), the David Bloom Award (Presented by the White House), Peabody Awards (CNN and ABC News) and the NY Film Festival award (ABC News Documentary Unit).

Prior to joining Loyola, she was a producer and writer for ABC Network News in New York and Washington DC. Other producing positions include The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Degrees

MS in Journalism, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
BA Political Science, DePaul University, Chicago

Courses Taught

Digital Communication and Society

Journalism Research Methods

Story Development and Production (graduate program)

Digital Media and Storytelling Capstone (graduate program)

Reporting and Writing 

Broadcast News

Awards

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Georgia  

Alfred I. DuPont Award

David Bloom Award for Excellence in Enterprise Reporting

Peabody Award for The Arab Spring, CNN Network coverage

Peabody Award for Big Oil Spill, CNN Network coverage

Emmy Award, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Chicago Chapter for Chicago Entrepreneurs