Students from all over the world are choosing Tsinghua University in China to study business journalism. For these international students, their motivations are twofold: to study at one of the top universities in the world and to learn about Chinese culture.Known as “the United Nations of journalism education,” the Global Business Journalism (GBJ) Program at Tsinghua University has taught st...

Sharon JaysonSharon Jayson, an internationally recognized journalist with a reputation as a clear, concise storyteller, will join the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University as a visiting professor during the spring 2022 semester.Jayson, who worked for USA Today as a reporter for 10 years, will teach Business News Reporting and Editing. She also will help write and edit storie...

Mika HentunenMultimedia reporting is an increasingly demanding discipline. Print journalists need to master the art of podcasts and live video reporting while broadcast reporters are honing their online writing and infographics skills. With advances in artificial intelligence and data journalism, everyone could use more technical savvy.Amid the growing demands, it is essential to have a trained...

Orientation 2021 began with a worldwide Zoom call.Fifteen international students from 13 nations began two weeks of Global Business Journalism orientation sessions on August 30 as the program prepared for a fourth semester of remote learning for students living outside of China.Global Business Journalism co-director Rick Dunham and academic officer Chengzhang Li joined the students for an overv...

Fluent in Chinese, Natalie Meyer hosted the bilingual 2020 New Year Gala for international students.Global Business Journalism alumna Natalie Meyer was among a small group of Australians invited to join Chinese Consul General Long Dingbin for an event in Perth to mark the centenary of the Communist Party.The June 22 seminar at the Chinese Consul General's Official Residence was attended by repr...

The COVID-19 pandemic may have complicated their studies, but they endured.The Tsinghua School of Journalism and Communication honored 25 students from 11 nations on June 25 for successfully completing their master's studies in Global Business Journalism. The commencement was marked with a pair of ceremonies: a hybrid journalism school commencement on Tsinghua's Great Lawn, with most internati...