Full-Time

WSJ seeks a reporter to cover health and China

The Wall Street Journal seeks an enterprising and ambitious reporter to cover business in Asia with a primary focus on health and China.

Asia has a thriving pharmaceutical industry in China, India and Japan; companies in the region are major outsourcing partners for counterparts in the West. China has ambitions to become a leader in health technologies such as DNA analysis and gene editing. Asia is also a key battleground for combating lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, monitoring emerging viruses and tackling the health challenges of aging populations. The region continues to confront the Covid-19 pandemic, including with Zero-Covid policies that have disrupted economies and sparked backlashes even as they have in some cases kept case counts relatively low.

You will:

  • Dive deeply into China’s fast-evolving health landscape, its technological advances and its weaknesses, and the domestic and global companies doing business there.
  • Be our Asia point person on the health industry, everything from gene editing to the epidemiology of the fight against Covid-19.
  • Range across this multitrillion-dollar regional industry, unearthing newsworthy developments and trends in drug production, medical supply chains, scientific discoveries and more.
  • Regularly break news and illuminate important trends. You will need to generate lots of ideas and have the skills needed to see them through.
  • Help the team handle the broader, often unexpected corporate news developments that make Asia such an exciting place to work.

You have:

  • At least five years of journalism experience demonstrating strong reporting skills and a record of breaking news.
  • Ideally, previous experience covering health and working in or around China. Fluency in Mandarin is also a strong plus.
  • The ability to work collegially as part of a team.

The job is based in either Hong Kong or Singapore and reports to the Asia Business Editor.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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