Bloomberg hires FT’s Darbyshire

Madison Darbyshire

Bloomberg News has hired Madison Darbyshire as a senior writer for Bloomberg Weekend.

She has been at the Financial Times covering investment and asset management. Darbyshire joined FT in 2017 as an editorial intern. She then served on special reports and most recently held the post of investment reporter.

She was also a research assistant for Gail Collins, bestselling author and op-ed columnist at the New York Times, for her book about the history of older women in America.

Darbyshire has also worked freelance and was an associate, integrated marketing and insights at The Economist. She was also an editorial intern at Crew Cuts Inc.

Darbyshire is a M.S. in multimedia journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.