Reporter Elegant departs Fortune

Naomi Xu Elegant

Fortune staff writer Naomi Xu Elegant is leaving the magazine after 18 months.

She was based in Hong Kong, where she reported on business and tech in China and in Asia at large, as well as helping edit the Sino-Saturday edition of Fortune’s CEO Daily newsletter.

Prior to joining us, Elegant covered the public school system in Philadelphia and interned at CNBC’s Beijing bureau.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she grew up in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, and is a fluent Mandarin speaker.

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.