Chan hired by International Financing Review to cover ESG

Michelle Chan

Michelle Chan is a New York-based reporter covering ESG and sustainable financing for The International Financing Review (IFR) at Refinitiv.

She previously worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she wrote about the decoupling of the U.S.-China financial markets.

Prior to that, she was a Hong Kong correspondent for Nikkei Asia and covered the intersection of business and politics in the Asian financial hub. Her stories on the Hong Kong protests and China’s chipmaking ambitions won awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Chan holds a master’s degree from Columbia University.

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.