Shin departs The Economist for AFP

Hieun Shin

Agence France-Presse has hired Hieun Shin as its correspondent in South Korea.

She has been covering South and North Korea at The Economist since 2018. She is currently a board member at the Asian American Journalists Association Seoul Chapter.

Before joining The Economist, she was a translator and English teacher in Seoul.

Shin graduated from Ewha Womans University with degrees in international economics and law and business administration.

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.