WSJ reporter Spegele returning to China

Brian Spegele

Wall Street Journal reporter Brian Spegele is moving to China and will be based in Beijing for the newspaper.

Spegele is currently a reporter for the financial enterprise team in New York, where he covers global financial and business issues. He previously lived in Beijing for seven years, where he covered Chinese politics and business for the Journal, including the rise of President Xi Jinping and his consolidation of power.

Brian speaks Mandarin Chinese and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he served as a Knight-Bagehot fellow.

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.