MIT Technology Review hires Yang to cover China and East Asia

Zeyi Yang

MIT Technology Review has hired Protocol reporter Zeyi Yang to cover China and East Asia.

He will start in April.

Yang has been working at Protocol since January 2021. Yang had been a reporting fellow at Rest of World since June 2020, reporting on startups, entrepreneurs and other topics.

He also has freelanced for the South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asian Review and other publications. And he has brokered and interpreted interviews with Wuhan locals for reporters at other publications.

Yang is a graduate of Peking University and holds a master’s degree in journalism and international affairs 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.