Rest of World hires Chen as China reporter

Caiwei Chen

Rest of World has hired Caiwei Chen as its China reporter.

Chen’s reporting on the rapidly changing Chinese internet has appeared in Wired, Protocol, South China Morning Post, SupChina, and Radii, among others. She has regularly contributed to Chaoyang Trap, a critically acclaimed Substack newsletter that focuses on everyday lives on China’s internet. She has also hosted a Mandarin-language podcast that explores how different cultures mutate online.

She was born in Xiangyang, China, and speaks fluent Mandarin.

She graduated from University of Colorado-Denver and China Agricultural University in Beijing before going on to Columbia University for an M.A. in oral history.

She will be based in New York, and report to the China editor in Asia. She starts on May 16.

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.