Business Week senior news editor to visit

Owen Ullmann, senior news editor for the Washington bureau of Business Week and a UW–Madison alumnus, will serve as this semester’s business writer in residence March 30-April 3.

Before joining Business Week in 1993, Ullmann spent 10 years at the Knight-Ridder Washington bureau, where he covered the White House, State Department and economics. He won two awards from the White House Correspondents’ Association for his coverage of the Reagan presidency.

Ullmann previously worked for the Associated Press for 10 years, first as an automotive writer in Detroit and later as a labor writer and chief economics correspondent in Washington.

He received a B.A. in political science from Rutgers in 1969 and an M.A. in journalism from UW–Madison in 1973. In 1985 he received the Ralph O. Nafziger Award for Distinguished Journalism from the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Ullmann’s residency is part of the ongoing Business Writer in Residence program, sponsored by the School of Business, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Office of News and Public Affairs, with support from the UW Foundation. During the week Ullmann will speak to classes in journalism and business, consult individually with students and give a talk in the “What Matters to Me and Why” series in Chadbourne Hall.