Wall Street Journal Chicago bureau chief Joanna Chung has been promoted to associate managing editor.
She will start hew new job on March 11 and report to managing editor Liz Harris.
Chung joined the Journal in 2010 as law bureau chief. In more than a decade at the Journal she has led many big and difficult stories, including the crashes of Boeing MAX 737, the unraveling of business during the Covid pandemic, the implosion of big law firms, and the downfall of financial titans over insider trading.
Before the Journal, Chung was the U.S. financial correspondent for the Financial Times based in New York, where she covered the crackdown on the financial industry at a time of enormous pressure on Wall Street.
She also covered capital markets from London and Hong Kong for the FT and has written broadly on politics and business from Washington and London.
Chung has a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in international relations from Columbia University in New York.
