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Timmons joins Quartz in Hong Kong

Heather Timmons has joined Quartz as Asia correspondent, based in Hong Kong, it was announced Thursday by editor-in-chief Kevin J. Delaney.

Her appointment is effective July 15.

Timmons joins Quartz from The New York Times where she was based in London and New Delhi, and covered mergers and acquisitions, high-flying bankers, the private equity boom, and terrorism, as well as writing for Travel and Styles.

In 2011 she co-founded and ran “India Ink,” the paper’s first-ever country specific news journal, which provided more in-depth news and analysis of the world’s largest democracy, and of India’s global diaspora. “India Ink” grew to a monthly audience of close to one million unique visitors online and substantially expanded the paper’s readership in India.

Previously, she was the banking editor at BusinessWeek, where she covered the perils of the big bank business model and the danger of banks’ expansion into risky lending, corruption on Wall Street, and a post-9/11 New York. Timmons began writing about banking and finance as a reporter with the Daily Deal and the American Banker.

“Heather’s a world-class, entrepreneurial journalist with experience covering business and finance from Europe, Asia, and the U.S.,” said Delaney in a statement. “With her arrival, Quartz is continuing to invest in the high-quality, unique content that millions of people are reading each month and sharing with their friends and colleagues.”

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.

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