Arizona State University's Cronkite School offers undergraduate and graduate specializations in business journalism.
As we near the end of our study abroad trip to China, it’s becoming clearer to me that America is lacking the full picture of China. In some ways, there is a level of ignorance by many Americans about what China is, what it represents and what it eventually will become. And this ignorance is [...]
We traveled to the International School of Business in Beijing early this morning and met with the students majoring in mass media. Over the last year, Professor Andrew Leckey has been meeting and talking with students and the dean of the school in hopes of setting up an international exchange program for international business journalism. [...]
The vast expanse of Tiananmen Square inspires equally in depth and complex feelings. The protests of 1989 have ripped a hole in the fabric of the Chinese isolationist culture and suppression through which the entire world can see. On our first day in China, we experienced how sensitive the government is about Tiananmen Square. While [...]
The issues surrounding China’s economic growth — inflation, population, urbanization, media censorship — are the main topic of conversation as we converse with people living and working in the country. In a series of lectures, Phil Smith of Thomson Reuters‘ North Asia bureau and Andrew Broome from The Wall Street Journal Asia Edition shed additional [...]
On our second day in China, we spent a majority of the time talking with students and faculty at Tsinghua University, as well as in lectures with Xu Wu and Andrew Leckey. We met students from Russia, Poland, Australia and America, as well as many other countries, and had the opportunity to learn about their [...]
A group of 10 students from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication made final preparations on Saturday before embarking on a 14-day trip to China with professors Xu Wu and Andrew Leckey. Bags are packed. Passports are ready to be used. Our cameras, recorders, microphones (and for me, my notebook,) are locked [...]
Graduates (including spring 2011 graduates) of Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism are eligible for the newly created Kearny Alliance China Fellowship in Global Business Journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The two-year program, which is designed in part to strengthen US-China relations, allows the fellow to earn an MA in International Business [...]
The following MarketWatch commentary by Andrew Leckey was translated into Chinese in The Asian Wall Street Journal and Oriental Outlook magazine, the national news magazine of China. Speaking Chinese without an American accent Commentary: To know China, see the world through its eyes By Andrew Leckey Will the heavy national debt load of the U.S. [...]
Having been interviewed on Chinese television more than a dozen times in recent years, Reynolds Center President Andrew Leckey offers these tips, among others, on dealing with China in a commentary today for MarketWatch: • Many Chinese take personally the criticism of government policy. While we are often loudly critical of our government, they consider China one [...]
