FT hires Bischof to be AME

Jackie Bischof

The Financial Times has hired Jackie Bischof as an assistant managing editor.

She has been senior managing editor of business and international at Insider, and before that she served as a managing editor of business.

Previously, Bischof was at Quartz, where she worked for six years in various roles, including deputy editor for talent lab, deputy global news editor, deputy membership editor and talent lab editor. She was a digital editor at Newsweek and a reporter/producer at The Wall Street Journal.

She freelanced for The New York Times Goal blog, Elle, the Huffington Post, the Mail & Guardian Online and The Citizen. She was an editorial assistant at Thomson Reuters and interned at Time Out New York and the BBC.

Bischof has a B.A. from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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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.