FT hires Wong from Reuters to report from China

Sue-Lin Wong

The Financial Times has hired Sue-Lin Wong, a reporter at Reuters, as its new south China correspondent.

She will open an FT bureau in Shenzhen.

“I’m sad to leave @Reuters after more than four wonderful years but very excited for all the adventures & stories which lie ahead,” she wrote on Twitter.

Wong has 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.