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San Jose daily hires new Facebook. Twitter reporter

Queenie Wong has joined the business news desk of the San Jose Mercury News, covering social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Wong comes to the paper from The Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore., where she covered education. Before that she covered Oregon state government for the paper.

She has also worked at the Seattle Times, Sacramento Bee, U.S. News & World Report and the Washington, D.C., bureau of McClatchy Newspapers.

Wong is a graduate of Washington & Lee University.

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.