WILLIAM A. MULLIGAN, Ph.D., is a professor and former chairman of the journalism department and is an associate faculty member in the department of Asian and Asian American Studies, California State University, Long Beach.  He is an honorary professor at Yuda Business University, Beijing. He has worked as assistant to the publisher of the Messenger-Inquirer, in Owensboro, Ky.; and in editing positions for:  the China Daily, Beijing; the Columbia Missourian; the Columbus  Evening Dispatch, in Ohio; the Gleaner-Journal, Henderson, Ky.; the Marshal Courier and the Tribune-Democrat, both in Benton, Ky.;  and at Xinhua (New China) News Agency, Beijing.  He has worked as a consultant for Quality Times, Douglas Aircraft Company, McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), Long Beach, Calif., and as the publications coordinator at Murray State University in Kentucky.  He was the curriculum development coordinator for the Certificate in Journalism Program, which was co-sponsored by California State University, Long Beach, and China Business Media Conglomerate, CBMC, Beijing. Mulligan, who came to Cal State Long Beach in 1986,  has also taught at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas.He first taught at Missouri from 1978 to 1981, when the Journalism School sent him to China, where he worked as a copy editor at Xinhua News Agency. After more than two years in China, Mulligan returned to M.U. School of Journalism as a copy editing teacher and to the Columbia Missourian as a news editor.	William A. Mulligan, Ph.D. Affiliations William A. Mulligan is affiliated with:  American Copy Editors Society, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, College Media Advisers, International Communications Association, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Radio-Television News Directors Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the former publisher of Daily Forty-Niner publications and former chief executive officer of the California Intercollegiate Press Association, Inc., (CIPA). x Writings His academic writings have been published in:  Communication Technology and Policy News; Ethical News; International Communication Bulletin; Journalism Alumni News, University of Missouri School of Journalism; Journalism Quarterly; Mass Media in China:  The History and the Future. And, the Press-Telegram, Long Beach, California; Public Relations Review; Selected Papers in Asian Studies; and Xinhua Dui Wai Bao Cao Can Kao (Xinhua reference news for foreign services), Beijing.	Experience William Mulligan's professional journalistic experiences includes work as: Assistant to the publisher, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. Editor, Marshal Courier, Benton, Ky. Editor, Tribune-Democrat, Benton, Ky. Editor, Leisure Scene magazine, Benton, Ky. Managing editor, Gleaner-Journal, Henderson, Ky. Copy editor, Columbus Evening Dispatch and Columbus Sunday Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio. Coordinator of publications, Printing Services, Murray State University, Murray, Ky. Day news editor, Columbia Missourian, Columbia. Foreign specialist (copy editor), Xinhua (New China) News Agency, Beijing. Foreign expert (copy editor), China Daily, Beijing. Copy editor, Contemporary Policy Issues: Economic Analysis for the Decision Maker, Western Economic Association. Public relations consultant, Quality Times, Douglas Aircraft Co., McDonnel Douglas Corp., now the Boeing Co., Long Beach, Calif. Student paper adviser William A. Mulligan is the former publisher of Forty-Niner Publications (Daily Forty-Niner, On-line Forty-Niner, Summer Forty-Niner, University Magazine (now Dig magazine) at California State University, Long Beach. He has also served as the news-editorial adviser and special issues adviser of the Daily Forty-Niner. He is the former chief executive officer of California Intercollegiate Press Association. He has worked as an adviser to: The Pine Log, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, and The Murray State News, Murray State University, Murray, Ky., where he was a graduate assistant, teaching editing on the State News. He was editor of his college newspaper, the Brescia Broadcast, Brescia College, Owensboro, Ky.