Dr. Bu Zhong is an associate professor at the College of Communications, the Pennsylvania State University. He is also a faculty member of the ICT4D Consortium at Penn State, senior research fellow of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism, and faculty affiliate of the Media Effects Research Lab in the College. He has been teaching C465 – TV reporting at Penn State since 2006.

Before he joined the Penn State faculty, he had been a journalist for one decade at China Daily in Beijing, CNN Washington Bureau and CNN World Center in Atlanta. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland – College Park, and a Master’s degree in broadcast journalism from the School of Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia.