Alyssa Abkowitz has been hired to cover technology for The Wall Street Journal in China.
Abkowitz has been freelancing from China for the past two and a half years and also helping to coordinate the Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women International Summit in Hong Kong.
Before that, she worked at The Journal in New York covering luxury real estate for its Mansion section. She also spent nearly three years as a staff writer at Smart Money magazine, where she covered residential real estate and wrote features for the magazine. She also wrote about taxes, estate planning, the job market and other personal finance topics.
She also worked for Creative Loafing in Atlanta and Fortune.
Abkowitz has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and journalism from Emory University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.