WSJ names new Apple reporter

Daisuke Wakabayashi

Wall Street Journal technology editor Jonathan Krim sent out the following staff announcement on Monday:

I am delighted to announce that Daisuke Wakabayashi will be shifting his perch from the Tokyo bureau to the growing technology team in San Francisco, where he will take on the critical beat of covering Apple.
A dogged reporter and smooth writer of all things tech in Japan, Dai has covered everything from the restructuring at Japan’s struggling electronics firms, to Nintendo’s attempts to stay relevant in a changing industry, to billionaire entrepreneur Masayoshi Son’s audacious bid to crack the U.S. telecom market. He was also involved in the Journal’s extensive coverage of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Dai joined the Journal in 2008 in Tokyo after starting his career at Reuters, where he worked in Tokyo, Boston and Seattle.
In his own words, Dai “was denied the gift of rhythm. He’s a bad dancer and an even worse karaoke singer — a potential career killer in Japan.”
His move thus comes not a moment too soon, and we are fortunate and excited to gain his services. A firm date is TBD.

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.