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FT names Jopson a Madrid correspondent

Barney Jopson

The Financial Times has tapped Barney Jopson as Madrid correspondent.

Recently, Jopson held the post of executive news editor.

Jopson joined the FT in 2005 as Tokyo correspondent. Later on, he was named financial correspondent and then East Africa correspondent. He was then promoted to assistant emerging markets editor and then to U.S. retail correspondent. He also served as U.S. policy correspondent and Middle East and Africa news editor.

He formerly reported for Nikkei.

Jopson graduated from the University of Cambridge.

You can congratulate Jopson by sending him a note on Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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