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WSJ’s Wong named AP’s news director for China

Wall Street Journal technology reporter Gillan Wong has been named news director for China for the Associated Press.

An AP story states, “Wong, who currently covers technology at The Wall Street Journal, will be based in Beijing as the AP’s greater China news director. In that role, she will oversee coverage in video, text and photos, across a territory that includes the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

“Wong’s appointment was announced Monday by Ted Anthony, the cooperative’s Bangkok-based director of Asia-Pacific news.

“‘I know few journalists in Asia or anywhere else who are as intrepid and creative as Gillian,’ Anthony said. ‘Her comprehensive understanding of the China story, after years of covering it inside and outside the country, will help the AP deliver what its customers expect about one of the biggest stories in the world — and more.'”

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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.