FT taps Jones to be global economy news editor

Claire Jones

The Financial Times has named Claire Jones to be its global economy news editor.

Jones has been with the FT since 2011.

She previously was in the publications Washington bureau. She has also been the Frankfurt bureau chief and at FT Alphaville, where she wrote about the global economy.

Jones joined the FT as a money supply/economics team writer. Jones also worked as editor of several central banking publications prior to her roles at the Financial Times.

She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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.