The Information hires Yang as Asia bureau chief

Jing Yang

Tech news site The Information has hired Jing Yang as its Asia bureau chief.

She has been a Wall Street Journal senior correspondent covering M&A, IPOs, private equity and broad finance and business news in the region.

She previously covered Chinese conglomerates for Bloomberg News in Shanghai and has also worked at the South China Morning Post and shipping journal Lloyd’s List.

Jing won two 2021 awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia for her coverage of China’s corporate crackdown. She was also part of a Journal team that earned a 2021 Overseas Press Club citation in international business reporting.

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.