Longtime biz journalist Tejada has died

Carlos Tejada, a business journalist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, died this past weekend of a heart attack. He was 49.

He most recently was deputy Asia editor for The Times, but had been its Asia business editor.

Tejada spent two decades at The Wall Street Journal as a reporter and an editor. He was The Journal’s China news editor in Beijing from 2011 to 2016, and was previously based in Hong Kong as deputy bureau chief and Asia news editor. He started at The Journal as a reporter in Dallas covering spot news, oil and leveraged buyouts, before moving to New York as an editor.

Since joining The Times in 2016, he has been a force behind some ambitious business stories in Asia, helping guide coverage on the trade war, techno-authoritarianism, the slowing Chinese economy and the saga of Carlos Ghosn.

He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas.

A fundraiser for his wife and children can be found here.

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.