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WSJ hires Abkowitz to cover tech in China

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.

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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