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Stodghill hired to teach journalism at Missouri

Business 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.”

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.