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Leckey named Fulbright scholar, to teach in China next year

The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced the selection of professor Andrew Leckey of Arizona State University as a Fulbright Scholar to China for the 2014 spring term. He will teach business journalism at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China.

Leckey is the Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the president of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, which he launched in 2003. He previously served as a longtime nationally syndicated investment columnist for the Chicago Tribune and worked as a CNBC anchor and reporter. He is the author or editor of 10 financial books.

Leckey has extensive experience in China. He has led several Cronkite summer study abroad trips to the country, has lectured at major Chinese universities, has appeared on China Central Television to speak about economic issues and has contributed articles to Chinese magazines and books. He also has hosted visiting scholars from China at the Cronkite School.

“I learn something every time I go to China and appreciate this Fulbright opportunity to teach business journalism at Sun Yat-Sen University,” Leckey said in a statement. “The university has an outstanding tradition and its communications dean is respected business journalist Hu Shuli, editor-in-chief of the Caixin Media publications.”

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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.

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