Economist hires FT’s Wong as China correspondent

Sue-Lin Wong

Sue-Lin Wong, a reporter at the Financial Times, has been hired by the Economist as its China correspondent.

She has been working out of the FT bureau in Shenzhen for the past year.

Wong had previously been with Reuters since September 2014. She previously freelanced for The New York Times, Reuters, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic, among other publications in China and Australia.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Australian National 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.