WSJ names Chung an associate managing editor

Joanna Chung

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.

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.