Rick Dunham

Rick Dunham is the international director of the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University. A veteran Washington journalist and former president of the National Press Club. He covered the White House for Business Week magazine and was Washington bureau chief for the Houston Chronicle and Hearst Newspapers. He is a frequent analyst on topics of global business, politics and journalism, offering commentary on international television networks and multimedia news platforms. As a journalism educator, he has trained professional journalists, journalism students and journalism professors from more than 80 countries in locations as diverse as the United States, China, Finland, the Netherlands, Lebanon and the Philippines. He is the author of the textbook “Multimedia Reporting” (Springer, 2020) and is co-editor of Springer’s Tsinghua Global Business Journalism book series. He wrote “The Global Business Journalism Stylebook” (2023) and is co-editor of  “The Routledge Companion to Business Journalism” (Routledge, 2024). A native of Philadelphia, Mr. Dunham holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Specialized Topics

How to write an easy-to-understand business or economics story

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Rick Dunham
Apr 17, 2025
Tsinghua University, Beijing
COVID-19 Reporting

10 tips for online teaching

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Rick Dunham
Mar 12, 2020