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Biz journalism couple Russolillo/Banjo moving to Hong Kong

Shelly Banjo

Two business journalists married to each other — The Wall Street Journal’s Steven Russolillo and Bloomberg Gadfly’s Shelly Banjo — are moving to Hong Kong.

The “Ahead of the Tape” column that Russolillo wrote for The Journal is ending after 15 years and several columnists, including Jesse Eisinger, Justin Lahart, Mark Gongloff, Scott Patterson, Kelly Evans, and Spencer JakabHere is the farewell piece.

Russolillo will be a global markets reporter for The Journal, based in Hong Kong. He will start June 5.

Russolillo returned to the paper in October 2015 after spending a year as a financial writer in Goldman Sachs’ asset management group, writing white papers and research reports. He was markets reporter for The Journal and had worked in various roles for the Journal and Dow Jones Newswires since August 2007.

He’s a 2007 graduate of the University of Delaware. He has an MBA in finance from Baruch College and was an adjunct professor at Baruch and NYU.

Steven Russolillio

Banjo has been writing about retail and consumer news for Gadfly. She joined it in October 2015 from Quartz, where she covered the future of finance.

Banjo will be taking a new role as a columnist with Bloomberg Gadfly, covering conglomerates throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Banjo’s mandate will stretch from South Korea to India and will sweep up all of the family-owned conglomerates and booming industrial enterprises of the region including Toyota, Tata, Hyundai, Wilmar and Samsung.

Before that, Banjo worked at The Journal, where she has served as a corporate reporter covering the retail sector. She was earlier part of the team that launched the Journal’s metro section and has covered philanthropy, charities, wealth management, and personal finance for the Journal.

Banjo has an MBA from New York University and a degree in journalism and international studies from Northwestern University.

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.

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