WSJ reporter Bird moving to Hong Kong to cover Asian finance

Mike Bird

Wall Street Journal reporter Mike Bird is moving to Hong Kong from London to cover Asian finance and markets.

He will be moving during the summer.

Bird has been with the Journal since March 2016 covering markets. He previously worked in the London office of Business Insider, where he worked as a European markets and economics correspondent from the time of its launch in the summer of 2014.

Before then, he worked at City A.M, a free business and finance newspaper in London, after studying history and politics at Exeter 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.