Chief subeditor Conlon retiring from the FT

John Conlon

John Conlon, chief subeditor at the Financial Times, is retiring Friday after more than 20 years with the publication.

He specialized in foreign and British news.

Conlon previously was at The Times of London as an online production team leader and at the Press Association as an online editor. He also worked at the Cambridge News as a news editor and as a reporter.

At the Stockport Express Advertiser, he was named UK young journalist of the year in 1983.

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.