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FT taps Parkin to be Middle East and Africa news editor

Benjamin Parkin

Benjamin Parkin has been named Middle East and Africa news editor at the Financial Times, based in London.

He was previously in India for the FT for five years between 2019 and 2024.

He started as a correspondent covering corporate India in Mumbai, before moving to New Delhi as South Asia correspondent to cover regional politics, economics and business across countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.

Before that he covered commodities for The Wall Street Journal.

Parkin holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oxford and a master’s degree from Columbia University.

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.

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