WSJ’s Mandhana becomes chief correspondent in Singapore

Niharika Mandhana

Wall Street Journal’s Naharika Mandhana has become a chief correspondent in Singapore.

She previously was Southeast Asia bureau chief.

She joined the Journal in New Delhi in 2013. Mandhana has written about Rohingya refugees, maritime disputes in the South China Sea and North Korean sanctions evasion. She tracked North Korean vessels making illicit transfers at sea and is now an expert on the intricacies of fraudulent ship registration.

Mandhana studied law in India and has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. She was a reporter at The New York Times in New Delhi before joining the Journal.

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.