WSJ’s Ngo hired by Hearst CT/Times-Union

Wall Street Journal graphics editor Vivien Ngo has been hired by Hearst Connecticut newspapers as a data visualization developer in its newly formed joint data team.

The team will also do work for the Albany Times-Union newspaper.

Ngo specializes in data visualization and interactives. She has been at The Journal since July 2019.

Before that, she was a data journalism fellow at Enigma Technologies Inc. She also was a software engineer intern at Amazon.

Ngo holds a master’s degree in journalism and one in computer science from Columbia 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.