NYTimes hires Swanson to cover trade

Ana Swanson

The New York Times has hired Ana Swanson to cover trade from its Washington bureau.

She starts on Sept. 11.

Swanson comes to The Times from The Washington Post, where she covers trade, the Federal Reserve and the economy.

A native of Story City, Iowa, Swanson graduated from Northwestern in 2004 with a degree in cultural anthropology. She spent eight years in China learning Mandarin and writing about business and economics, was editor-in-chief of China Economic Review magazine from 2011 to 2013, then moved to Washington to earn a master’s degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

She has freelanced for numerous publications, including Foreign Policy, Forbes, CNN and The Atlantic, and is a regular contributor to American Public Media’s “Marketplace.”

She also helps run the International China Journalists Association.

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.