FT taps Foy to cover European banking

Simon Foy

Financial Times reporter Simon Foy is now covering European banks.

He has been covering accounting for the past year.

Foy previously was at The Telegraph covering accountants, insurers, law firms, stock exchanges, workplace conduct, regulation, green finance, lending and asset management.

Prior to joining The Telegraph, Foy was a political news intern at The Spectator. Before that, he was an intern news reporter at Bloomberg. He has also worked as a freelance features writer at The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post.

He was also an intern reporter at The Irish Times and has served as an opinion editor and editor-at-large at The University Times, a student newspaper published from Trinity College Dublin.

Foy is a M.A. 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.