Business journalist Rick Dunham, who has been running the Global Business Journalism Program at Tsinghua University in China, is stepping down after more than a decade.
“I am 68 years old, and Pam and I have a lot of living to do — places to see, mountains to climb, books to write, people to reconnect with — before it’s too late,” he wrote on Facebook.
Dunham has been working for the Houston Chronicle’s Washington bureau for six years before joining the program.
Dunham had previously been with BusinessWeek for the past 15 years, covering the intersection of politics and policy in Washington. He joined BusinessWeek in 1992 after seven years as a national political reporter for the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history, Dunham has been active in Washington journalism circles, having served as president of the National Press Club and chairman of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Last year, Dunham co-edited “The Routledge Companion to Business Journalism” with former BusinessWeek colleague Joe Weber
The program is a project of the International Center for Journalists, which trains journalists in dozens of countries worldwide, and Tsinghua University in Beijing, considered one of China’s best. It is also supported by Bloomberg News. It has graduated students from more than 70 countries.
