He graduated from the Department of Journalism in People’s University of China in 1999. He worked in the Economic Daily, Xinhua News Agency (1992-1997), and participated in the establishment of the Xinhua Daily Telegraph. In 2000, Wu Xu went to the United States and has obtained a master’s degree in communications and a PhD degree in philosophy in the University of Florida in U.S. Since 2005, he has been employed at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Arizona State University, teaching the course of Strategic Media and Public Relations. In 2016, he has been employed as a visiting professor in the School of Journalism and New Media in Xi’an Jiaotong University.