Quartz hires Asia reporter, Things reporter

Financial news site Quartz has hired two new reporters — one to cover Asia and another for its Things team.

Leslie Nguyen-Okwu is joining the Asia team as a reporter based in Taipei.

Nguyen-Okwu is a Stanford University-educated journalist. Her work has been featured in National Geographic, BBC, Vice and NPR. She serves as a local expert on Taiwan for Lonely Planet and Google. Her reporting includes getting a knife massage in Taiwan and having a magic tattoo done in Cambodia.

Clarisa Diaz is joining the Things team as a reporter based in New York.

She is the senior interaction and graphic designer for New York Public Radio’s newsroom, including Gothamist and WNYC’s Data News & Journalism team. She reports on issues related to design and environmental science. Diaz was named a 2019-2020 Connected Coastlines grantee to report on climate change in NYC with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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.