Rest of World hires Schoenmakers as features editor

Kevin Schoenmakers

Kevin Schoenmakers has been hired by Rest of World as features editor.

Schoenmakers was previously a features editor at Sixth Tone in Shanghai, where he worked on stories covering themes including air pollution, illegal surrogacy, livestreaming startups, bitcoin mining, and everything in between.

As a freelance reporter, he has covered China’s society, environment, and media. His work has been published by CNN, Nature, and Variety, among others. Schoenmakers has a master’s degree in sociology from Shanghai’s Fudan University and a bachelor’s degree in Sinology from Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Schoenmakers will be joining the features desk in commissioning and editing long-form narrative stories across its coverage regions and themes. He will also work on ambitious enterprise projects.

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.