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Faculty

The Business and Economics Journalism program builds on the strengths of three areas of the University: the Department of Journalism, the Department of Economics and the School of Management.

Department of Journalism

Lou Ureneck

Lou Ureneck
Professor Ureneck leads Boston University's program in business and economics journalism and also serve's as chairman of the Journalism Department. A former deputy managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the nation's leading newspapers, Ureneck has broad experience as an editor, writer and media executive. He was editor and vice president of The Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram and editor-in-residence at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Ureneck's award-winning work also extends to web publishing: two websites that were developed under his leadership were named among the best in the nation. Ureneck's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Sunday magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Nieman Reports magazine. He is the former chairman of the New Media and Values Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

His work has been collected in a selection of outstanding writing published in Nieman Reports during the last half of the 20th Century.

Nieman Reports, Winter 1999 and Spring 2000 (100mb)

Ureneck's research into the changing economics of the newspaper industry, "The Business of News," was published as a special edition of Nieman Reports.

Nieman Reports, Summer 1999 (1mb)

School of Management

The Business and Economics Journalism Program also relies on faculty from Boston University's School of Management and Department of Economics for the strength of its course content.

The academic departments and programs of the School of Management at Boston University have been ranked among the top nationally and internationally.

The School's faculty includes business leaders and scholars from around the globe. They bring to the classroom the experience of world-class scholars, the dynamism of leaders who consult, do research, publish, and lecture globally and a commitment to combine their passion for teaching with their management expertise.

School of Management Faculty

Department of Economics

Over the last fifteen years, through the acquisition of a number of distinguished senior and junior faculty, the Department of Economics at Boston University has grown into one of the leading economics departments in the world. A recent publications-based ranking of U.S. economics departments placed it seventh among U.S. departments, tying Yale and leading Stanford and Berkeley.

Strengths in the department include development economics, game theory, health economics, industrial organization, international trade and finance, labor economics, macroeconomics, microeconomic theory, public enterprise, regulation, and public finance.

Department of Economics Faculty