MIT Tech Review hires Chen as a tech reporter

Caiwei Chen

The MIT Technology Review has hired Caiwei Chen to cover China technology.

She will start next week.

Chen was a Rest of World reporter based in New York. She has written for more than five years about the Chinese internet and tech. She has been published in Wired, Rolling Stone, Protocol, Technode, and The China Project, and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University.

She was also part of Chaoyang Trap, an experimental newsletter about Chinese internet.

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.