Derbyshire to become US opinion editor for Financial Times

Jonathan Derbyshire

Jonathan Derbyshire has been named U.S. opinion editor for the Financial Times.

He will start shortly after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Derbyshire is currently the FT’s executive opinion editor. He was previously managing editor of Prospect, Britain’s leading monthly magazine of politics and ideas, and culture editor of the New Statesman.

Derbyshire has also written for a number of other publications, including the Guardian, the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. In a previous life, he taught philosophy in several British universities.

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.