NY Times hires WSJ’s Zhong as China tech reporter

Raymond Zhong

New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock and tech editor Pui-Wing Tam sent out the following announcement:

We’re delighted to announce that Raymond Zhong will be joining the Times to cover technology in China.
Raymond comes to us from The Wall Street Journal, where he most recently covered economics in India, working out of New Delhi for three years. He previously was based in London for the Journal, working in the op-ed department. Before he was a journalist, he worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, and interned at Goldman Sachs and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In India, Raymond visited car factories in Gujarat to report the changing fortunes of manufacturing-led economies, traveled to Uttar Pradesh to see crumbling railways and the underinvestment in infrastructure, and trekked in Nepal to find out how the country was rebuilding after a devastating earthquake.
Fluent in Mandarin, Raymond just came off a refresher course in the language at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. He will eventually be based in Beijing, but will start with the Times by visiting New York, San Francisco and working out of the Hong Kong bureau.

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.