WSJ markets reporter Vaishampayan leaving for law school

Saumya Vaishampayan

Saumya Vaishampayan, who covers the currency markets in The Wall Street Journal’s Hong Kong bureau, is leaving the paper to attend law school.

Her last day is Friday.

Vaishampayan previously wrote about U.S. stocks and options for the Journal in New York. She has been at the Journal since July 2014.

She previously spent 18 months working at MarketWatch.com, another Dow Jones operation, covering financial markets.

Vaishampayan is a graduate of Tufts 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.