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Chinese biz program looking for director

The Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University is seeking a director starting in the fall semester of 2013.

The ideal candidate would be a university professor with extensive professional experience as a business journalist plus administrative experience and responsibilities. China experience and Chinese language are a plus but not a requirement.

The program is a joint 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. The director would teach Business News Writing and Editing and other courses as needed. The director’s duties include reporting to the program’s sponsors as well as identifying and cultivating new ones.

This is a great job for the right person, especially now, given China’s growing importance in business and the global economy. Students are right in the middle of the world’s biggest business story.

Contact James Breiner at Tsinghua University, jamesbreiner@gmail.com.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.