FT names Chassany its Berlin bureau chief

Anne-Sylvaine Chassany

Anne-Sylvaine Chassany has been named Berlin bureau chief at the Financial Times, replacing Guy Chazan.

She will start her new role in January.

Chassany is the FT’s companies editor, overseeing coverage of business news globally. Prior to this role, she was the FT’s world news editor, the FT’s Paris bureau chief and the FT’s global private equity correspondent.

Before joining the FT in 2012, she worked for Bloomberg News and Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal in Paris and London, reporting on mergers and acquisitions, energy and European financial institutions.

A graduate of French business school HEC and a former analyst at Paribas’s buyout unit in Paris and New York, she won the ‘OneToWatch’ award from The Work Foundation’s WorkWorld Media Awards in 2006 for “Heat builds on Mittal to improve safety and wages” following a reporting trip to Kazakhstan.

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.