Fitch hires Khan as head of publishing for Americas

Faris Khan

Business journalist Faris Khan has been hired as head of publishing in the Americas for Fitch Ratings.

He has been managing editor for P&C Specialist, part of Money-Media, a Financial Times operation, since 2019.

Khan was previously at Bloomberg News, where he was senior editor for distressed debt and leveraged finance coverage. He was also a senior editor in corporate finance and a team leader for syndicated loans coverage.

He also served for four years as New York bureau chief for Reuters. He was a syndicated loans reporter for Reuters from 1996 to 2008.

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.