Biz journalist Stodghill named magazine columnist

Business journalist Ron Stodghill, who has worked for BusinessWeek and been the business columnist for the Charlotte Observer, has been named the columnist for Charlotte magazine.

Executive editor Michael Graff writes, “As a writer, Ron has few peers in Charlotte. His resume includes stops as a staff writer for The New York Times, Time Inc., and BusinessWeek. He was a business columnist at The Charlotte Observer until 2011, when he went to work for Johnson C. Smith University as an assistant professor and the director and founder of JCSU’s Innovo Laboratory, a  leadership development initiative. He’s also the director of diversity, small business, and workforce development at the Smith Institute for Applied Research.

“Ron was a Harvard University Nieman Fellow in 2001, in the same class as best-selling author J.R. Moehringer, who remains a close friend. He also holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Queens University and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri.

“It goes on. He’s an author. HarperCollins published his first novel, Redbone: Money, Malice and Murder in Atlanta, in 2007, and the book received praise from publications around the country. Ron’s second book is nonfiction, exploring the changing face of historically black colleges and universities, and it’s scheduled to be released this fall.”

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