FT hires Kay as its Mumbai correspondent

Chris Kay

The Financial Times has hired Chris Kay as its Mumbai correspondent.

Kay has been a reporter and editor covering South Asia for Bloomberg News and Businessweek. He has written widely on politics, business, health, conflict and climate change.

Currently based in Mumbai, Kay previously managed news bureaus in Nigeria and Pakistan. He has worked for Bloomberg since June 2010.

He holds a journalism masters from City University London.

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.