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Stodghill hired to teach journalism at Missouri

July 21, 2017

Posted by Chris Roush

Ron StodghillBusiness journalist Ron Stodghill, who has worked for BusinessWeek and been the business columnist for the Charlotte Observer, has been hired as a professor at the University of Missouri, his alma mater.

For the past two years, Stodghill has been writing a column for Charlotte magazine and teaching at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte.

He was a business columnist at The Observer from 2009 until 2011, when he went to work for Johnson C. Smith. He’s also been the director of diversity, small business, and workforce development at the Smith Institute for Applied Research.

Stodghill was a Harvard University Nieman Fellow in 2001. He also holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Queens University and earned his bachelor’s degree from Missouri.

HarperCollins published his first novel, “Redbone: Money, Malice and Murder in Atlanta,” in 2007. He is coauthor of “No Free Ride, former U.S. Congressman Kweisi Mfume’s bestselling memoir, and author of “Where Everybody Looks Like Me.”

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