Zhao hired as deputy ME for CNBC International

Christina Zhao

Christina Zhao has been hired as deputy managing editor of CNBC International, based in the Singapore bureau.

Previously, Zhao worked as politics editor for NBC News, based in New York.

Zhao was also a senior editor at Newsweek, where she also worked as a deputy news editor and news reporter, covering China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and U.S. politics.

She also served as writer/sub-editor for Snapchat Discover and Health desk at MailOnline. She has also worked freelance for The Times in London and contributed to The Independent’s tech and business desk. She has also interned at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Archant.

Zhao has a law degree from the University of Auckland and a master’s degree in investigative journalism from City, University of London.

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.