Regalado departing Nikkei Asia for new opportunity

Nikkei Asia correspondent Francesca Regalado is leaving for a new opportunity.

She has been its Bangkok correspondent. Previously, she served as Tokyo reporter covering the Tokyo Olympics, foreign affairs, the pandemic in Japan, cryptocurrencies, and climate change.

She has also worked as an economics reporter, covering the U.S. Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and the International Monetary Fund for Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily. She also founded TheDiplomaticEnvoy.com, transitioning a monthly newspaper to an online platform.

She has also interned at the New York Times.

Regalado has a B.S. from Seton Hall University and a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.