Ahmed’s named FT’s tech news editor

Murad Ahmed

The Financial Times has named Murad Ahmed as its tech news editor.

He has been the FT’s sports editor. He has been writing news and features on the world, business and science of sport and directs the work of the FT’s team of sports business reporters. He is the co-founder and editor of FT Scoreboard, a weekly newsletter on the business of sport. He is also co-creator and co-chair of the FT’s annual Business of Football summit.

Before, Ahmed covered sport, hotels, restaurants, tourism and more as leisure correspondent. He joined the FT in July 2014 as European technology correspondent, and had written about the global technology sector for eight years.

Prior to joining the FT, he worked at The Times of London.

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.