CNN hires Liu to cover China business

John Liu

CNN has hired John Liu to be its China business reporter in Hong Kong.

He has been at The New York Times since 2021.

Previously, he worked as a freelance journalist covering Taiwan and Myanmar, including Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, for various international media outlets.

Liu started as a reporter for the now defunct Myanmar Times based in Yangon, covering the country’s business environment, relations with China and its 2020 General Elections.

He is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong.

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.