Page hired by The Economist as Asia diplomatic editor

Jeremy Page, the China political and diplomatic editor for The Wall Street Journal, has been hired by The Economist to be its Asia diplomatic editor.

He will be based in India.

Page has been in The Journal’s Beijing bureau, leading coverage of domestic politics, international relations and security.

He joined the Journal in Beijing in 2010, prior to which he worked for The Times of London for eight years, as South Asia correspondent, focusing on Pakistan and Afghanistan, and as Moscow correspondent, also covering Central Asia.

He first visited China as a student in 1992 and began his career with Reuters in Beijing in 1997.

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.