Dow Jones Newswires hires Wright as publishing editor

Stephen Wright

Stephen Wright has been hired as a publishing editor for Dow Jones Newswires in Wellington, New Zealand.

He returns to Dow Jones after more than a decade in various roles for the Associated Press in Asia, mostly recently a regional reporter based in Jakarta.

Wright is a former Asia business editor for AP and Thailand and Vietnam bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires. His journalism has been recognized several times by his peers, including as a finalist in the investigative reporting category at the 2018 SOPA awards.

He enjoys running, working out, reading nonfiction, eating Southeast Asian street food and drinking red wine.

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.