FT hires Mark as South Africa bureau chief

Monica Mark

The Financial Times has hired Monica Mark to be its South Africa bureau chief.

Mark has been the Christian Science Monitor’s Africa editor, based in Johannesburg. A British-Nigerian, she has reported from more than 20 countries in Africa, with a particular interest in offbeat longform stories.

She was previously Johannesburg bureau chief for The New York Times, and before that spent a decade covering West Africa, first from Lagos, Nigeria, for The Guardian, then in Dakar, Senegal, for BuzzFeed News.

She has written on some of the biggest stories on the continent, often from remote outposts, where she has sought to elevate the unsung heroes in crises such as the Ebola epidemic, and in the jihadist conflicts waged by Boko Haram and Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. Deeply reported longform narratives, a particular interest, have ranged from modern-day slavery in Libya to queer culture in Nigeria.

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.