Rodriguez becomes professor at ASU

Ex-Sacramento Bee Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez joins the faculty of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

Rick, who was the first Latino president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, will be the school’s Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor. His first day on the job is March 3.

Rick resigned from the top editor job at the Sacramento Bee in October. He continues to serve as a consultant to the VP for news at The McClatchy Co.