WSJ hires Yoon to cover Asian debt markets

Frances Yoon

Frances Yoon has been hired by the Wall Street Journal as a markets reporter in Hong Kong, covering Asian debt markets with a focus on China.

Yoon was previously at the International Financing Review, where she delivered scoops on U.S. dollar bond plans for Alibaba, Tencent and CNOOC, one of China’s largest oil companies. Her recent enterprise work looked at how underwriters paid rebates to investors in exchange for lead orders on bond deals.

She previously worked at a stocks reporter for Bloomberg Television, and once worked as Matt Lauer’s assistant at the “Today” show.

Yoon graduated from New York 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.