WSJ hires Yu as a reporter in Hong Kong

Elaine Yu

The Wall Street Journal has hired Elaine Yu as a reporter in Hong Kong.

She will be focusing on the intersection of politics and finance, and will also be writing about the city.

Yu previously worked for Agence France-Presse and as a freelance reporter for The New York Times. She has also written for CNN International, the New Yorker, VICE News, The Nation, Dissent, The Baffler, and other publications.

She has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, Al Jazeera and WNYC.

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.