WSJ Asia finance editor Ng is departing

Serena Ng

Serena Ng, the Asia finance editor of The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the news organization after 18 years for a new opportunity.

He has been overseeing a team of reporters who cover markets, deals, and financial institutions in the region. She first joined the Journal in New York in 2006, and covered the U.S. credit markets before and during the last global financial crisis.

Ng was part of WSJ reporting teams that won a Gerald Loeb award for beat reporting in 2008, and for breaking news in 2009. She also previously covered American International Group, Berkshire Hathaway and Procter & Gamble, and was a member of the Journal’s financial-enterprise team in New York before moving to Hong Kong 2017.

She is currently based in Singapore.

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.