The Wall Street Journal has promoted Ashby Jones to bureau chief overseeing law; he was previously the deputy chief for law since 2013. Jones joined the publication in 2005 as a staff editor, and has served as a writer for the law blog and as a reporter during his time there. The WSJ has also hired Alyssa Abkowitz as a reporter to cover the tech industry in China out of the the paper’s Beijing bureau. Abkowitz had been a freelance writer in Beijing since 2013, and previously worked for WSJ as luxury real estate reporter for the year prior to going freelance. Follow The Wall Street Journal on Twitter and Facebook for more financial news from lower Manhattan.
