Rest of World hires Bhattacharya as South Asia reporter

Ananya Bhattacharya

Rest of World has hired Ananya Bhattacharya as its South Asia reporter.

She has been at Quartz as a global breaking news writer.

Bhattacharya also worked for Quartz India as a tech writer. She covered stories ranging from Amazon’s warehouse robots to swarm electrification in Bangladesh. She worked in New York, covering both U.S. and India tech stories, and then moved to Mumbai.

She interned for The Verge, CNN Money and Inc. magazine. Bhattacharya holds a bachelor’s degree from New York 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.