WSJ’s Chung named managing editor at SmartNews

Christopher Chung

Christopher Chung, a publishing editor at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving to become managing editor of SmartNews.

Smart News is a news aggregation app. Chung will continue to be based in New York and will start next week.

For the past 15 months, Chung was a publishing editor for U.S. and politics news, editing, managing and publisingh breaking news and features. He previously was a senior mobile editor and associate mobile editor. He also spent five years as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires.

He also worked at Smash Magazine and Tennis Magazine.

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.