FT hires visual journalist Rodgers

Lucy Rodgers

The Financial Times has hired BBC News visual journalist Lucy Rodgers.

She will start next month.

Rodgers has been with the BBC since 20016 and has been a senior visual journalist since 2008, based in London.

She also worked at the Western Daily Press and the Press Association. Rodgers holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Warwick.

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.