Barron’s to launch Asia edition later this year

Barron’s, the weekly financial newspaper from Dow Jones & Co., is planning an Asia edition to launch this fall.

A managing editor will be based in Hong Kong and oversee Barron’s Asia, an English-language paid website written for investors in both Asia and the U.S.

The Asia publication will have a small staff of reporters and bloggers, according to jobs posted on the Dow Jones website. Barron’s already has a Japanese-language website.

Barron’s started in 1921. Dow Jones expanded its sister publication, The Wall Street Journal, to Asia in 1976 and to Europe in 1983. The Journal now also operates a Chinese-language website.

Barron’s has more than 300,000 print subscribers in the United States.

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.