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CNBC hires Yu as China reporter

Elaine Yu

CNBC has hired Elaine Yu as a China reporter, based in Hong Kong.

She left the Wall Street Journal a year ago and has been a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong.

At the Journal, Yu covered topics ranging from cryptocurrencies and casinos to business and political developments in Hong Kong and China.

She was previously a correspondent for Agence France-Presse, and has written for publications including the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Intercept and the Columbia Journalism Review. Her work has been recognized by a New York Press Club Award and named a finalist for the Mirror Awards.

Yu is a graduate of Pomona College.

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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