By: E&P Staff John Bussey, a deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal based in Hong Kong, was named editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia, replacing Reginald Chua, who was named assistant managing editor of the Journal in New York City.
Bussey, 48, will continue as a Journal deputy managing editor, overseeing bureaus and correspondents in Asia and Latin America.
Bussey was named a deputy managing editor of the Journal in June
2002. Previously, he was based in New York and served as the Journal's foreign editor for eight years, and was responsible for the paper's international coverage. He joined the Journal in 1983 as a reporter in the paper's Chicago bureau and later worked in its Cleveland and Detroit bureaus.
Bussey wrote a front-page first-person account of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that was part of the package of stories that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.
Chua joined the Asian Journal in June 1993 as a correspondent in
Manila, and opened the paper's Hanoi bureau in October 1995. He was named the paper's editor in August 1997.
Launched in 1976, The Wall Street Journal Asia is edited in Hong Kong and printed in nine Asian cities: Bangkok, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo.
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