FT hires Savage to cover commodities

The Financial Times has hired Susannah Savage to cover the commodities beat.

Savage has been a reporter for Politico Europe in Brussels. She has also covered Southeast Asia for The Economist, writing international articles, especially on international development.

Savage also worked at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

She holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a master’s in financial journalism from City University of 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.