WSJ hires Kwong as newsroom innovation chief

Robin Kwong

The Wall Street Journal has hired Robin Kwong as its newsroom innovation chief.

He will report to Louise Story and start next month.

Kwong is currently the head of digital delivery at the Financial Times, a position he has held since June 2017. Before that, he was special projects editor.

As head of digital delivery, Kwong has led a team of creative producers to pioneer digital storytelling formats and transform the newsroom’s commissioning process. His team has worked with editors on news desks, and have created new internal products such as a set of Story Playbook templates to encourage more visual storytelling.

Kwong was also the tech, media and telecoms news editor at the FT, as well as its Taipei correspondent. He previously worked at the South China Morning Post.

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.